Built the first intercity line into London (Euston), opened in sections, 1837- 8, engineered by Robert Stephenson. Merged with other railways to form the London and North Western Railway. The image shows the mouth of the newly-built Primrose Hill Tunnel.
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London and Birmingham Railway
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Harrow & Wealdstone Station
Harrow & Wealdstone Station Opened by London and Birmingham Railway, 20.7...
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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
Finnish Seamen's Mission
We found a reference to the Mission at the Branch Street address in the Children's Newspaper, 10 June 1933, but apart from that the address given for the Finnish Seamen's Mission and church is alwa...
1 memorial
Potters Bar rail crash
A West Anglian Great Northern train left King's Cross at 12.45 bound for King's Lynn. At 12.55 it crossed over a set of points on which the blades moved suddenly without warning. The rear of the tr...
2 memorials
Great Central Railway
A railway company which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in anticipation of the opening of its London extension. It was eventually grouped in...
4 memorials
Marylebone Station
A Central London railway terminus and London Underground complex, designed by Henry William Braddock. Originally it was the London terminus of the former Great Central Railway, and is now the Londo...
2 memorials
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Greenwich roundels - Duncan
SE10, King William Walk, Discover Greenwich (Royal Naval College, Pepys Building)
The roundels on the north, river-facing, frontage are occupied by, left to right: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard, Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Ro...
1 subject commemorated
Bombs 7 July 2005
In the middle of the morning rush hour four bombs went off on three tube trains, at 8.50am and a bus, at 9.47am. 52 people died. Plaques commemorating the victims have been placed at each of the b...
12 memorials
W. Gilbee Scott
William Gilbee Scott had a practice at 25, Bedford Row. The only building, apart from the How Gateway, we can find by him is the Salvation Army Citadel in Sheffield. 2016: via Facebook Neil Jacks...
1 memorial
Captain Robert Hansler
JP for Middlesex. At Rootschat we found a "Captain Robert Jacob Hansler, a magistrate for Middlesex" He was the eldest son of Sir John Jacob Hansler (1788 -1867) and Maria (d.1858), daughter of Mr ...
1 memorial
Lisa Pontecorvo plaque
N1, Edward Square
Andrew Motion was commissioned to write a poem for this garden. It is cut (in a very interesting way) into the low concrete wall around ...
1 subject commemorated
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