This afternoon I took the train up to Cannon Street as I fancied a walk around the fairly quiet streets of the City. I love walking around the small streets/passages trying to come across something new. I walked into Postman's Park which I'd walked past before, but never been in. I spotted this tablet on the George Frederic Watt's Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, it was interesting/sad reading all the different tablets finding out what had happened to people. This one amused me slightly though with mention of the 'lunatic woman' (sorry!), but of course was sad too as the poor man died rescuing her. Here is a bit of 'cut and paste' re. the memorial if you fancy a history lesson on a Saturday evening...

'In 1900, the park became the location for George Frederic Watts's Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, a memorial to ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and might otherwise have been forgotten, in the form of a loggia and long wall housing ceramic memorial tablets. At the time of its opening, only four of the planned 120 memorial tablets were in place, with a further nine tablets added during Watts's lifetime. Following Watts's death in 1904, his wife Mary Watts took over the management of the project and oversaw the installation of a further 35 memorial tablets in the following four years, as well as a small monument to Watts. However, disillusioned with the new tile manufacturer and with her time and money increasingly occupied by the running of the Watts Gallery, Mary Watts lost interest in the project and only five further tablets were added during her lifetime.'