Some plaques bear two or more names.
Altogether some sixty-two people are commemorated here.
All of them died while trying to save the lives of others.
Watts had been colleting stories of heroic sacrifice from newspaper clippings for many years.
Alice herself was overcome by fumes and stumbled out of the window to her death.
Sadly, nobody paid attention to this beautiful idea.
So Watts decided to fund the memorial himself.
Work ceased altogether in 1931 with only 53 of the planned 120 tiles in place.
The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, today, remains an obscure destination drawing only a handful of visitors.
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Sources:Wikipedia/www.postmanspark.org.uk/Wikipedia
