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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Sir Patrick Abercrombie
Pioneer of town and country planning, Leslie Patrick Abercrombie was born near Manchester. Abercrombie was an academic during most of his career, and prepared one city plan and several regional st...
1 memorial
Phillips & Hopwood
From Village Pumps: "Samuel Phillips was making fire engines by 1760; in 1797 the firm became Phillips & Hopwood; in 1811 it was James Hopwood; by 1818 it was Hopwood & Tilley; by 1825 Till...
1 memorial
3 memorials
first gas-lit street in the world
The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall by Frederick Winsor in 1807. In January he lit the street and in June he put on a special gas-lit exhibition here, celebrati...
2 memorials
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Unnamed cyclist
About this death the papers reported: "A cyclist was almost twice over the legal limit for drink-driving when he rode off the pavement into the path of an oncoming bus after celebrating his 21st bi...
1 memorial
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
Created in 1900, it became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965.
1 memorial
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
Born Vienna, educated England, granted English citizenship 1865. Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland (a member of the royal household in Scotland) 1881 - 1890. Best known for the head of Queen Victor...
15 memorials
Air Chief Marshal Dowding - SW19 - replacement plaque
SW19, St. Mary's Road, 3
This plaque (complete with a misspelling) replaces the English Heritage original which was erected on the previous house on this site, th...
1 subject commemorated
Lord George Bentinck
W1, Cavendish Square
From an information board in the square: "The statue of Lord George Bentinck, descendant of Lord Harley, devotee of the Turf, and politic...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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