An automated light metro system, opened in 1987 and extended four times.
2024: Londonist have an excellent Brief History Of The DLR.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Docklands Light Railway
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DLR extension to Lewisham - Greenwich
{Above the CGL Rail and DLR logos:} Docklands Light Railway Lewisham Extensio...
DLR extension to Lewisham - Lewisham
Docklands Light Railway This plaque was unveiled by the Deputy Prime Minister...
Greathead shield at Bank
This 'Greathead' type tunnelling shield ws left at this point 18 metres below...
Other Subjects
Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, Charles Cheers
Businessman. Born Liverpool. His brand name being Castrol he was very successful and set up in the City of London. Lord Mayor in 1915-16. Promoted and funded pioneering aviation and motor sports. 1...
2 memorials
Frederick Handley Page
Aircraft designer and manufacturer. His company manufactured the Halifax bombers used in WW2.
1 memorial
Corporal Harold John Strangward
Harold John Strangward was born on 30 January 1884 in Marylebone, London, the youngest of the six children of Robert Strangward (1840-1919) and Emily Strangward née Hawkins (1845-1905). His birth w...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Tyburn Turnpike House
This toll gate is thought to have stood about where Marble Arch now stands.
1 memorial
Princess Alice disaster
London's worst peacetime disaster. The Princess Alice was a passenger paddle steamer, making what was called a 'moonlight trip', from Swan Pier near London Bridge to the former Rosherville Pleasure...
3 memorials
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Daily Express
The first edition of the Daily Express was published in Fleet Street. It was one of the first papers in Britain to carry gossip, sports, women's features and a crossword. Their magnificent 1932 bu...
2 memorials
Dame Myra Hess
NW11, Wildwood Road, 48
English Heritage Dame Myra Hess, 1890 - 1965, pianist, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
W. Chambers-Leete
Town Clerk of the Royal Borough of Kensington, 1904 - 1916, at least. Kensington in the Great War by G. I. S. Inglis tells us that the Chambers Leetes lost their only son Captain W. J. H. Leete of...
1 memorial
Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway
The Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) ran from CC to Golders Green and also to (what is now known as) Archway. In 1912 it was extended south to Embankment. Then in the ea...
4 memorials
Auxiliary Fireman Alfred Robert Haylen
From the Sub Fire Station 6W, Cheyne Place. Died in a fire which took the lives of seven firemen, known as "The Wednesday".
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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