{Circular plaque:}
{Circular plaque, around a drawing of the viaduct and St James's Bermondsey church, above a shield and a banner:}
London and Greenwich Railway 1836
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Spa Road Station opened 8th February 1836, London's first railway terminus.
SE16, Priter Road, South Bermondsey Arches
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Spa Road Station - Priter Road
A terminus of the London and Greenwich Railway, London's first railway. The o...
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, larg...
David Hopkins has kindly provided the translation for us. Dave says "I was puzzled by the word Nidianus/i, which appears after his name a...
The plaques are located on the platform side of the ticket barriers.
J. R. Ackerley, 1896 - 1967, writer and literary editor, lived here, 1941 - 1967. The Putney Society
5 similar plaques have been erected.
Eagle House built 1773. The surviving south wing refurbished 2008. The Clapham Society
Constructed 1872-6 by The Metropolitan Board of Works. Opened in 1876. Improved in 1880-2.
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts,...
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page, and there we learnt that she was a 17-year old munitions worker.
Banker. Born Edinburgh. With his brother, James, came to London and worked in a bank founded in 1692 by John Campbell. James married Campbell's grand-daughter and through her inherited the bank. Th...
Army officer and engineer. Born Woolwich, the son of a professor at the Royal Military Academy. He studied at the Academy, joined the Royal Engineers and served abroad constructing fortifications, ...
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