Person    | Male  Born 17/1/1943 

Denis Tunnicliffe

Categories: Transport

Pilot and railwayman. Co-pilot with the former British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and later British Airways. Managing director of London Underground Ltd between 1988 and 1998, and chairman between 1998 and 2000. Created Baron Tunniclffe of Bracknell in 2004.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Denis Tunnicliffe

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Leicester Square Station control room

Leicester Square Station control room, twinned with Times Square Station New ...

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Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

Named not for its own two towers but for the nearby, pre-existing Tower. Designed by Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with the engineer, John Wolfe Barry. 8 years to build. See th...

Building, Tourism / Traditions, Transport

4 memorials
Teddington Locks

Teddington Locks

The first lock was constructed in timber in 1810.  This become delapidated and new locks were built by the Corporation of the City of London 1856-8.  Footbridges were added in 1889 and the barge lo...

Building, Transport

2 memorials
Charles Melville Hays

Charles Melville Hays

Railway president. Born in Rock Island, Illinois. He started working on the railroads at the age of 17, and progressed through the business, eventually becoming the General Manager of the Grand Tru...

Person, Tragedy, Transport, Canada, USA

1 memorial
Kindertransport

Kindertransport

10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...

Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland

2 memorials