Erection date: 24/7/1912
This stone was laid by the Rt. Hon. Lord Aberconway, PC, Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company, 24 July 1912.
R.H. Selbie - General Manager
W. Willox, MICE - Engineer
This plaque is somewhat reticent about its function which is to commemorate the laying of the first stone at Baker Street Station.
NW1, Marylebone Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Baker Street Station
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Baker Street Station
This was the world's first underground passenger railway which opened from Pa...
Politician. Born Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren in Edinburgh. He began his c...
General Manager and one of the Directors of the Metropolitan Railway Company,
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Baker Street Station
London's roads were heavily congested, the railways stopped on the fringes of...
Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 1666. Here were struck in 1661 the first postmarks in the world...
LCC Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, born here, 1804.
Designer of the first Hammersmith Bridge, William Tierney Clark, 1783-1852, lived on this waterworks site, c.1839.
In our photo the plaque can be seen through the gap in the railings, laid into the ground in front of the grass.
