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Red Cross Street

Categories: Transport

Used to run from the Beech Street / Golden Lane junction, where there was a red cross, due south to St Giles Cripplegate at Fore Street.  Londonist have found a map that shows the Barbican overlaid on top of the old street map of the area.

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Red Cross Street

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Fan makers

The Fan Makers' Company met in their Common Hall in Red Cross Street to adopt...

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Corporal Harold John Strangward

Corporal Harold John Strangward

Harold John Strangward was born on 30 January 1884 in Marylebone, London, the youngest of the six children of Robert Strangward (1840-1919) and Emily Strangward née Hawkins (1845-1905). His birth w...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, Transport, France, Wales

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
First car park in Marylebone

First car park in Marylebone

The first municipal car park in St Marylebone was unveiled in 1965.

Building, Transport

1 memorial
Ladbroke Grove rail disaster / Paddington rail crash

Ladbroke Grove rail disaster / Paddington rail crash

Also referred to as the Paddington rail crash. At 8.06am, a Thames train bound for Bedwyn in Wiltshire left Paddington station. Two minutes later, as it sped along at 41mph, it went through a signa...

Event, Tragedy, Transport

2 memorials
Rotherhithe Tunnel

Rotherhithe Tunnel

Road tunnel crossing under the River Thames, connecting Rotherhithe to the Ratcliff district of Limehouse. Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, it was constructed using both a tunnelling 'shield' a...

Building, Engineering, Transport

7 memorials
Santa Maria, ship

Santa Maria, ship

The flag ship, the largest of 3 ships, in which Columbus discovered America.  It was a 'caravel' a particular type of sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries....

Vehicle, Transport, USA

1 memorial

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George Ansell
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Lillian Lenton

Lillian Lenton

Suffrage campaigner and hunger striker.

Person, Gender Issues

1 memorial
Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

241 memorials
Gay Liberation Front

Gay Liberation Front

By 1973, GLF had effectively dissipated and had given way to its spin-off organisations.

Group, Gender Issues

2 memorials
Marsh & McLennan Companies

Marsh & McLennan Companies

US-based global financial brokerage firm.  Wikipedia says "At the time of the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, the corporation held offices on eight floors of the North Tower of t...

Group, Commerce, Tragedy

1 memorial