Railway company based in Derby.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Midland Railway Company
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St Pancras Station
St Pancras Station, built originally by the Derby based Midland Railway Compa...
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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
Chris Moyes
Born Shropshire. As a student worked as a bus conductor then joined a bus company and worked his way up until he was Chief Executive of the Go Ahead bus company. Appointed OBE for services to tran...
1 memorial
HMS Sovereign of the Seas
Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th-century warship of the English Navy. She was ordered as a 90-gun first-rate ship of the line, but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of Char...
1 memorial
Marcial Echenique
Professor of Land Use and Transport Studies and Dean of Architecture at Cambridge. Born Chile. Awarded an OBE in 2009.
1 memorial
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Co., 5,635 members who served in WW1
5,635 members of the staff of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Co. who joined the forces of the Crown during the war of 1914 – 1918 gave their lives for victory in that great struggle t...
1 memorial
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King Edward VI
Only son of Henry VIII (with Jane Seymour who died 12 days after the birth), born Hampton Court. Became king aged 9 and died of consumption 6 years later, at Greenwich Palace. While king he was sup...
12 memorials
Dr John Waggett
At Elsevier Ruth Richardson writes:"That year {1882}, Dr John Waggett MD FRCS (1818–1909) decided to donate funds sufficient to erect a drinking fountain on the crest of London’s Notting Hill. Dr W...
1 memorial
Paul Verlaine - lost plaque
W1, Howland Street, 31
We are told by our Brussels correspondent, Jean-Michel Pochet, that in 1922 a plaque was erected at Howland Street: "Le poète français Pa...
1 subject commemorated
L.S. and B.S.
A couple married in 1856 and still so happy 25 years later, that they erect a water trough to advertise the fact, anonymously. Ahhh.
1 memorial
Queenie Isabella White
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 1. Buried in grave 3 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
1 memorial
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