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Does anyone know what this Obelisk is for?
Rather than being an old monument for something well-known, it seems to have been made in the 1990's, when a new housing development was opened in Rotherhithe Street, London.
On the South side of the River Thames.
The Obelisk is on the Thames Path walkway, at Pageants Stairs.
(There remain in London a number of what were once about 300 named "stairs" used for access from the embankment to the river.)
The Obelisk has no inscription, neither on it nor nearby on a plaque.
The land was previously used for warehouses, timber yards and factories before it became housing 25 years ago.
Obelisks traditionally marked boundaries between authorities, the Port of London Authority has a few, but this does not seem to mark any boundary.
It lies solely within the London Borough of Southwark far from the border of the Borough, and in turn solely within The Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, one of it's three precursors, far from the border of that Borough, and in turn solely within No 3 Bermondsey Ward and far from any border of that ward, one of it's constituent wards.
A website called "knowyourlondon" thinks it marks a line that runs through Westferry Circus and then Canary Wharf on the North of the Thames.
It may be so, but I cannot see why such an arbitrary line would need to be marked?
https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/pageant-stairs-obelisk/
The Obelisk can be seen from the riverside terrace of The Grapes pub in Limehouse, on the opposite North side of the river.
This slightly blurred screenshot shows the Pageant Stairs Obelisk's position in relation to Westferry Circus and Canary Wharf which lie to the East on the North Side of the River..
Rather than being an old monument for something well-known, it seems to have been made in the 1990's, when a new housing development was opened in Rotherhithe Street, London.
On the South side of the River Thames.
The Obelisk is on the Thames Path walkway, at Pageants Stairs.
(There remain in London a number of what were once about 300 named "stairs" used for access from the embankment to the river.)
The Obelisk has no inscription, neither on it nor nearby on a plaque.
The land was previously used for warehouses, timber yards and factories before it became housing 25 years ago.
Obelisks traditionally marked boundaries between authorities, the Port of London Authority has a few, but this does not seem to mark any boundary.
It lies solely within the London Borough of Southwark far from the border of the Borough, and in turn solely within The Metropolitan Borough of Bermondsey, one of it's three precursors, far from the border of that Borough, and in turn solely within No 3 Bermondsey Ward and far from any border of that ward, one of it's constituent wards.
A website called "knowyourlondon" thinks it marks a line that runs through Westferry Circus and then Canary Wharf on the North of the Thames.
It may be so, but I cannot see why such an arbitrary line would need to be marked?
https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/pageant-stairs-obelisk/
The Obelisk can be seen from the riverside terrace of The Grapes pub in Limehouse, on the opposite North side of the river.
This slightly blurred screenshot shows the Pageant Stairs Obelisk's position in relation to Westferry Circus and Canary Wharf which lie to the East on the North Side of the River..
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