Vehicle    From 11/5/1820  To 1870

HMS Beagle

Categories: Transport

A Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched from the Woolwich Dockyard. She was adapted as a survey barque and took part in three expeditions, the second of which was the voyage on which the young Charles Darwin began to form his theory of evolution. 

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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HMS Beagle

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Admiral Robert Fitzroy - SE19

Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805 - 1865, explorer and pioneer of weather forecast...

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Peter Hill

Peter Hill

Elizabethan seafarer. With Robert Bell he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers.

Person, Education, Philanthropy, 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
The King's Road

The King's Road

It derives its name from the fact that It was King Charles II’s private road to Kew and wasn’t opened to the general public until 1830. Mary Quant opened her shop ‘Bazaar’ here in 1955. Along with ...

Place, Commerce, Craft / Design, Royalty, Transport

1 memorial
Camden Roundhouse

Camden Roundhouse

Built to service trains using Euston, London's first railway terminus. It became obsolete by 1855 when locomotives outgrew its turntable. It then became a warehouse for Gilbey's Gin. In the 1960s t...

Building, Music / songs, Theatre, Transport

1 memorial
British Motor Cab Company

British Motor Cab Company

Former public transport company, about which we can discover virtually nothing.  Its premises appear in an old photo "Pickets outside the British Motor Cab Company's Garage" but the location is no...

Group, Transport

1 memorial