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What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: In this house lived William Bridges Adams (1797-1872) Inventor and polemicist, and his wife Sarah Flower (1805-1848) Hymnodist and poet Recorded plaque organisation: Loughton Town Council.
William Bridges Adams was an inventor and writer known for his work on perpetual motion machines and his controversial writings, while his wife Sarah Fuller Flower Adams was a notable hymnwriter and poet, best remembered for her religious lyrics including "Nearer, My God, to Thee."
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