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St Edmund the King church is now the London Centre for Spiritual Direction. We have tried to gain access to the building, but it has always been closed. Our photograph of the plaque is from Musings of a curious individual.

We wondered why a man born in America, living and working in Canada, had a memorial in the City of London. The answer is that his company was based in the City and he had taken the Titanic to return home from a visit soliciting financial support from the Board of Directors.

2021: A London Inheritance drew our attention to a building of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, Hays's company, in Cockspur Court, off Cockspur Street, an area which specialized in travel companies. The building is grandly named, in stone, twice, with the company name.