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Great Northern Railway

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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 ...

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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

There are 937 names, listed alphabetically (with a few out of sequence) in 11...

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Other Subjects

Gravesend Pier

Gravesend Pier

Designed by William Tierney Clark. During its early years it was used by millions of passengers, but by the turn of the century, it had fallen into disuse owing to the arrival of the railways. A Gr...

Building, Transport

1 memorial
Bentley Motor Car

Bentley Motor Car

Walter Owen Bentley (1888 - 1971), "W. O." to his friends, founded Bentley Motors Limited. The chassis for the first model (3 litres) was exhibited at the London Motor Show in October 1919. By Dece...

Vehicle, Engineering, Transport

2 memorials
Henry Ford

Henry Ford

American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...

Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport

1 memorial
Francis Blakey

Francis Blakey

Aged 34 when he died. Probably worked at London Bridge station for British Rail, or the Underground, or one of the railway companies. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, states that Francis O'Rourke Blak...

Person, Transport, Scotland

1 memorial
Malcolm Campbell

Malcolm Campbell

Holder of land and water speed records. Born Chislehurst, Kent. He broke the land speed record for the first time in 1924 and went on to break it a further nine times (five at Daytona Beach, Florid...

Person, Sport / Games, Transport, USA

2 memorials

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Robert Hollond

Robert Hollond

Balloonist and politician. Born London to a wealthy Bengal civil servant. Financed the 1836 balloon voyage from Vauxhall Gardens to Weilburg in Germany, on which he was a passenger. This set a reco...

Person, Aviation, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
St Michaels Church at Burleigh and Exeter Streets

St Michaels Church at Burleigh and Exeter Streets

St. Michaels Church was erected in 1833 at the S. W. corner of Burleigh and Exeter Streets. In 1905 St Michael's parish was united to St Paul's Covent Garden, by an order in council, the church was...

Building, Property, Religion

1 memorial
Thomas John Steward

Thomas John Steward

Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - auxiliary ambulance driver. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Thomas John Steward was born on 19 December 1910 in Lewisham, the 4th of the ...

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
George Padmore

George Padmore

International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa).  Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad.  Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935.  Worked as ...

Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana

1 memorial
G. W. Hall
War dead, WW1
1 memorial