Brentford Gas Company War Memorial Plaque

War memorial. Erected in 1922 at the Southall Gasworks of the Brentford Gas Company, subsequently taken over by the Gas Light and Coke Company in 1926. The memorial was later moved to this site, the former Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks, and into a memorial garden created after the Second World War.

MATERIALS: a bronze plaque set on a stone tablet with a stone base.

DESCRIPTION: the war memorial plaque to employees of the Brentford Gas Company stands within a memorial garden on the site of the former Bromley-by-Bow gasworks. It is located adjacent to the Gas Light and Coke Company memorial lamp (originally located at Beckton Gas Works, Grade II-listed), the memorial rotunda (Grade II-listed), and a statue of Sir Corbett Woodhall (Grade II-listed), just to the north of the Gas Light and Coke Company roundel outside the former London Gas Museum, and near seven gasholders (Grade II-listed). The memorial comprises a bronze plaque set on a chamfered stone tablet approximately 1.2m high and 1.8m wide with a chamfered rectangular stone base. The bronze plaque on the front of the tablet is cast with an inscription in raised lettering: IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL/ REMEMBRANCE/ MCMXIV. OF OUR COMRADES IN THESE WORKS/ MCMXVIII./ WHO DURING THE GREAT WAR/ LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/ FOR US AND FOR THEIR COUNTRY./ NAMES/ “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS”.