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| Dr Salter's Daydream |
| Dr Salter mounted a one-man mission to improve Bermondsey, a very poor, neglected neighbourhood in Edwardian London. First as a doctor, and then later as the local MP: he charged only sixpence for medical consultations (this is before the invention of the NHS); sent patients off to the countryside to convalesce; replaced 180-year-old slum tenements with lower density housing and planted 9,000 new trees in Bermondsey. |
| Dr Salter's statue, beside the River Thames at Bermondsey Wall East, was created by Diane Corvin. It depicts him in old age 'daydreaming' about his long deceased daughter Joyce (leaning against the riverwall), who died of scarlet fever, aged 8, in 1910. |
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The historic Angel pub is next door. |
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