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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Bank underground station
London Underground station. It has a very complicated layout with many exits/entrances. It is served by the Central, Northern and Waterloo & City lines, as well as the Docklands Light Railway. ...
1 memorial
Moorgate tube disaster
At Moorgate station a southbound tube train from Drayton Park failed to stop on a terminus platform, ran into the tunnel, through the buffers and smashed into the wall at the end. Because it was b...
2 memorials
Tyburn Turnpike House
This toll gate is thought to have stood about where Marble Arch now stands.
1 memorial
Private John William Banner
John William Banner was born on 11 September 1880 at 49 Tyneside Terrace, Elswick, Newcastle-On-Tyne, Northumberland, the eldest of the four children of Charles Banner (1845-1918) and Margaret Ann ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Thomas J. Boyle
Great Central Railway, London and District Goods Department employee killed in World War I.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Geoffery Hubbard
N5, Fieldway, Fieldsway House 1-8
Wilmington House is the building to the right which continues around the corner into Highbury Crescent. The description of Hubbard as as...
1 subject commemorated
Brixton bombing
SW9, Electric Avenue
In our photo the Brixton bomb plaque is on the wall above the person in the woolly hat. It had to be raised to this height when the Icela...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
St Dunstan in the East
A church was first built on the site in Saxon times. It was restored by St Dunstan in 950 AD. Badly damaged by the Great Fire, it was patched up and then a steeple by Wren was added in 1701. In 181...
2 memorials
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