Place    From 1840  To 1968

London And Blackwall Railway

Categories: Transport

Opened as the 'Commercial Railway' it connected Central London with the docks.

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London And Blackwall Railway

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Bow Road Railway Station

Bow Road Railway Station on the London And Blackwall Railway, built in 1869. ...

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Croydon atmospheric railway

Croydon atmospheric railway

An experiment by the London and Croydon Railway. Pumping stations were built which created a vacuum in a pipe laid between the rails. Each carriage had a piston that entered a slot in the tube, sea...

Place, Transport

2 memorials
Chelsea Bridge

Chelsea Bridge

At the same time that Battersea Park was created the first bridge at its eastern corner was built (shown in the image). This was opened in 1858, as Victoria Bridge, by Queen Victoria on her way to ...

Building, Transport

1 memorial
Spitfire aircraft

Spitfire aircraft

From our Picture source: "Produced in greater numbers than any other British combat aircraft before or since the War, 20,341 Spitfires were built in 22 different variants (excluding the navalised S...

Vehicle, Armed Forces, Aviation, Transport

5 memorials
Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

Baker Street and Waterloo Railway

Constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, between Baker Street and Lambeth North, (then called Kennington Road). It was later extended to Elephant & Castle, and then t...

Place, Transport

4 memorials
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

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Newquay House - right

Newquay House - right

SE11, Newburn Street, Newquay House

You can see the plaques on either side of the arched entrance to the central courtyard, at the centre of which there is what looks like t...

1 creator
Ealing 's Music Fans

Ealing 's Music Fans

A general group of people. 

Group, Music / songs

1 memorial
Claude Congreve Dobson, VC

Claude Congreve Dobson, VC

Awarded the VC for his heroism on 18 August 1919, age 34, while serving in the Royal Navy. "Commanding Coastal Motor Boat №31 he passed into Kronstadt Harbour under heavy machine gun fire, torpedoe...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
V. Hullyer

V. Hullyer

Church warden of St Dunstans Stepney, 1999.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Treatment Rooms 2 - John F. Kennedy

Treatment Rooms 2 - John F. Kennedy

W5, 199 Acton Lane

There is/was an American Graffiti Preservation Society but it seems to be defunct.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator