Postman's Park - Memorial to Everyday Heroes

Between St Paul’s and Barbican tube stations, just off Aldersgate Street in the City of London, by an old fashioned Police Telephone Box, is a small park called Postman’s Park on account of the fact that postal workers used to take their lunch breaks there.

 
What is also there is a remarkable memorable to “Everyday Heroes”.  This is an excerpt from the website - http://www.postmanspark.org.uk/:
 
In September 1887 the Victorian Artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) wrote a letter to the Times Newspaper entitled ‘Another Jubilee Suggestion’.  In this letter, he put forward a plan to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee by erecting a monument to commemorate ‘heroism in every-day life’.  On the 30th July 1900, this idea was eventually realised with the unveiling of his Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, situated in Postman’s Park in the City of London.
 
The monument consists of a modest wooden cloister, sheltering a short stretch of wall, upon which are fixed fifty-four memorial tablets commemorating sixty-two individuals, men, women and children, each of whom lost their life while attempting to save another.  The earliest case featured is that of Sarah Smith, a pantomime artist who died in 1863, and the latest is Leigh Pitt who drowned in 2007.  The youngest individual commemorated is eight year old Henry Bristow, the oldest sixty-one year old Daniel Pemberton
 
It is a lovely quiet place – and well worth a visit.  The second blip gives more background information from a plaque by the side of the wall.