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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Northern Railway
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King's Cross Station
King's Cross Station - Lewis Cubitt (1799 - 1883) architect. The station was ...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Great Northern Railway
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King's Cross war memorial - 1. pre-renovations
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Other Subjects
Private Leonard Philip Maris
Leonard Philip Maris was born in 1886 in Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, the youngest of the ten children of Alfred Maris (1841-1886) and Mary Ann Maris née Chittenden (1846-1930).His birth was regis...
Bawley fishing boat
Whitebait were caught by this type of craft in the River Thames, until 1950. The picture source website tells us that the Bawley is a variation of the 'smack' type of ship. The name "is probably de...
Croydon Road Recreation Ground
The land was purchased by the Beckenham Local Board to provide a public open space which had been lacking since the loss of the Fair Field for housing in the 1870s. The site was part of open farmla...
Ford Motor Company
Founded by Henry Ford in Detroit. The company opened in Britain at Dagenham in 1931, but production here has been greatly downsized.
Bow Road Railway Station
The authoritative-looking picture source website gives the date of opening as 4 April 1892 (contradicting the plaque) and the closing date as 1949 for passengers and 1962 finally.
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William Wordsworth
Romantic poet. Born Cumberland, with the perfect name for a poet (see Isambard Brunel for more examples of nominative determinism). Died Grasmere, the Lake District. Passing through London in 18...
Dunkirk Evacuation
In May 1940, British, French and Belgian troops were cut off on the French coast by German forces and faced death or capture. A hastily assembled fleet of 850 'little ships', code-named 'Operation ...
Mayflower Compact
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Written by the 'Separatists' who were passengers on the Mayflower. It was signed by forty-one members while the ship was anchored in what is now Pro...
Poplar Town Hall - foundation
E3, Bow Road
Listed Grade II The text includes: "The councillors' entrance has a cantilevered concrete canopy balcony originally designed for counci...
Svitlana Tereschenko
Born Ukraine. Killed on a Friday at about 16:30 when hit by a left-turning tipper lorry at the treacherous Bow roundabout, local to where she lived. Aged 34. The lorry driver was arrested on sus...
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