'Mail Rail' - Post Office Railway, 1927 - 2003, 6½ mile, 2 ft gauge, driverless underground railway, linking postal sorting offices, and main-line stations. For further information visit: www.transportheritage.com.
Transport Trust
Transport Heritage Site
WC1, Phoenix Place, 15 - 20
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway carried post from Paddington Head Sorting office to E...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Post Office Railway
The Transport Trust is a charitable institution that aims to increase and cha...
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This extension opened in 1938.
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We wish the plaque explained Steele's connection with this site / building. We've read that the new Hicks House on the Frean Street/Thurl...
A civic consultative group covering the parliamentary constituency of Vauxhall in London, which extends from the north of Waterloo to Brixton, Clapham, Stockwell and Vauxhall, as well as the neighb...
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
Garden and cemetery designer, city planner. Born Scotland as John Claudius Loudon. Studied biology, botany and agriculture. Came to London in 1803. His many publications include: Observations on La...
From his own website: "Scottish artist Neil Irons has been based in London since 1987, moving to his current studio in Walthamstow in January 2008. His visual practise incorporates Painting, Sculpt...
