I wonder, does anyone on here know where the accident happened? I have been told before it was Warden Point, outside Sea Horse and also been told, outside the coastguard houses??? Which is right if any, and where were the coastguard houses please? thanks.

The 1906 OS map shows Where the coastgaurd was based

Hi! I`m new to this site, and related to coastguard Oliver Sharp, my mum's maiden name was Sharp and she told me about this sad event.

Hi Smiffar, have just found this site , if you still read the comments Oliver Sharp probably saved my Grandad Patrick Taylor who was on the boat. Sydney Marsh the scoutmaster became my mothers Godfather. This family would love to know where his last resting place is.
Mike A

Some footage of the Funeral http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM-dU3r3__A&feature=youtu.be

I wonder, does anyone on here know where the accident happened? I have been told before it was Warden Point, outside Sea Horse and also been told, outside the coastguard houses??? Which is right if any, and where were the coastguard houses please? thanks.

Welcome to the forum smiffar.  Yes it was a very sad event wasn't it?

Thanks
I looked and the building wasn`t there in 1912 so it can`t be true.

The Leysdown Tragedy Centenary.

"In 2012, the friends of Nunhead cemetery, St Johns Walworth, Southwark council and surviving relatives, plan to commemorate this tragedy in its centenary year."

"We hope to have a service here in the chapel and at the graveside where the boys are buried. It was one of the biggest funerals ever seen in south London."
"The memorial in Leysdown is in a cemetery at the top of a hill overlooking where the accident happened. It would be wonderful if we could arrange some sort of ceremony there next year as well."   Rex Batton of the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery.

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