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
Bull and Mouth Inn
A coaching inn. From British History: "Burnt in the {1666 Great} Fire and rebuilt. Rebuilt about 1830-1 as the Queen's Hotel. Demolished 1887. The inn is said to have derived its name from the sign...
2 memorials
Serjeant William Stuart Lock Maxwell
William Stuart Lock Maxwell was born in Brixton, one of the six children of William Henry Maxwell (1864-1938) and Agnes Sarah Maxwell née Lock (1864-1953). His birth was registered in 4th quarter o...
War dead, WW1
2 memorials
Asquith Xavier
Asquith Camile Xavier was born in the West Indies. One of the Windrush generation who migrated to the UK after WW2. He died Chatham, Kent. In 1966 Xavier successfully fought to become the first bl...
1 memorial
Spa Road Station
A terminus of the London and Greenwich Railway, London's first railway. The original station was badly located and had a very narrow platform. Passengers were supposed to queue on the steps outside...
2 memorials
Donald Campbell
Land and water speed record-holder. Born Donald Malcolm Campbell, Canbury, Kingston Hill, Surrey. After the death of his father (Sir Malcolm Campbell), he decided to defend his water title and rega...
1 memorial
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Hazrat Wali
TW2, Craneford Way
In memory of Hazrat Wali, citizen of the world, fatally stabbed here, October 2021. RIP Hazrat We all read these things in the news but...
1 subject commemorated
Ignatius Sancho - SE3
SE3, Charlton Way, Greenwich Park
The Sancho plaque is to the right, Montague House (often spelt Montagu House) to the left. The sunken bath supposedly used by Queen Carol...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Sue Garner
WC1, Queen Square
In memory of Staff Nurse Sue Garner (1959 - 2001) from her friends and colleagues in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department, the Nationa...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
A. Poole
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Michael Balcon
Born Birmingham. Film producer. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios. Went on to run Ealing Studios from 1938-56. His daughter married Cecil Day Lewis. Died East Sussex. The National Portrait Gal...
3 memorials
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