Postman's Park

This eccentric London park recently got a touch of Hollywood glamour as the spot where Jude Law and Natalie Portman got ‘Closer’. But even so, Postman's Park still flies way under the radar for most city-dwellers. It's the singular vision of Victorian artist George Frederic Watts, who created ceramic plaques designed to honour ordinary people who'd died, trying to save someone else's life. Between 1887 and 1931, he hunted down stories of drowning children or fine ladies whose dresses caught fire - and paid tribute to the heroes who rescued them. He only managed to create 54 plaques before his death, but there are spaces for 66 more: time for another crusading artist to take on the mantle?