Forgive us, we've used this page as somewhere to hold the picture of the memorial in its original 1920 location.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
men of Great Northern Railway who gave their lives in WW1
Commemorated ati
King's Cross war memorial - 1. pre-renovations
There are 937 names, listed alphabetically (with a few out of sequence) in 11...
King's Cross War memorial - 2. temporary
{On the broken piece of stone to the upper right:} King's Cross Station conco...
King's Cross war memorial - 3. post-renovations
{On the left side of the rusty information panel:} The war memorial at King’s...
Other Subjects
Westminster Bridge
Built 1739–50 by Swiss bridge engineer Charles Labelye. Until this was opened there was no bridge between Putney Bridge (1729) and London Bridge. Replaced with the current bridge opened on 24 May 1...
2 memorials
Robert Bell
Elizabethan seafarer. With Peter Hill he co-founded the St Mary Rotherhithe Free School, to educate the sons of local seafarers. In the nearby church of St Mary the Virgin there is a brass plate co...
1 memorial
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
Marine Society
From the Marine Society: "Founded with the aim of providing men to fight in the King's ships as Britain faced war with most of Europe, The Marine Society was the world's first charity dedicated to ...
1 memorial
Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway carried post from Paddington Head Sorting office to Eastern Head Sorting Office in Whitechapel, a distance of 6½ miles (10.5km), with eight stations. Closed because it had b...
1 memorial
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Washington Irving
W1, Argyll Street, 8
Greater London Council Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859, American writer, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Anthony Salvin
Architect. Born County Durham. Moved to London in 1821. Expert on medieval buildings, restoring many country houses and castles and so worked on only a few buildings in London. Wikipedia has an ext...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Henry Williamson
Writer. Born at 66 Braxfield Road, Brockley. His best known work, 'Tarka the Otter' was published in 1927. He attended the Nuremberg rally in Berlin and saw Adolf Hitler as a source of good for his...
1 memorial
Sir Stafford Cripps
Politician and lawyer. Born Richard Stafford Cripps at 32 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, nephew of Beatrice Webb. He initially pursued a career in the law, but this was interrupted by the outbreak of w...
1 memorial
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