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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Bow Road Railway Station
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Bow Road Railway Station
Bow Road Railway Station on the London And Blackwall Railway, built in 1869. ...
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Opening of Austin Friars House
Our picture shows part of this building in 1970, before the restoration.
Lord Palumbo
Created a life peer on 4 February 1991 as Baron Palumbo of Walbrook in the City of London.
Round Hill House
In living memory this was "very run down and some kind of Labour Party social club." Elsewhere: "The Sydenham and Forest Hill Social Club ... was in Round Hill House from the 1930s until, I suppos...
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Olympic Games - 1948
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The second time London had hosted, 1908 being the first. The 1948 Olympics came to be known as the "Aus...
Britannia Theatre
Opened in 1841 as the Britannia Saloon, a drama space attached to the Britannia Public House. Rebuilt in 1858 with a full auditorium and renamed The Britannia Theatre. Converted to a cinema in 19...
1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
A brigade under the command of Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski, created in Scotland, with the exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British go...
Corporation of the City of London
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...
Lao She
W11, St James's Gardens, 31
Lao She, 1899 - 1966, Chinese writer, lived here 1925 - 1928. English Heritage
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