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The Everyday Heroes of Postman's Park |
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The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, contains 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.
The Everyday Heroes Web-based application
The Everyday Heroes of Postman’s Park web-based app is offered as an alternative to users who cannot access the mobile version.If you have an iOS or Android mobile device you should download the mobile app rather than using this web-based version
The app reveals, as never before, the everyday lives and untimely deaths of the sixty-two individuals commemorated and brings them to life as real people rather than just abstract names on a monument. For each person, there is a full description of the incident in which they died and details of all the key people involved, allowing the user to gain different perspectives on the circumstances. Events, locations and places of interest can be viewed on interactive maps and the app is extensive illustrated, with pictures of people and places.
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