The first lock was constructed in timber in 1810. This become delapidated and new locks were built by the Corporation of the City of London 1856-8. Footbridges were added in 1889 and the barge lock, was built in 1904–1905.
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Teddington Locks
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Teddington Lock - 1857
This plaque surely can't have been intended to be submerged? Did they accide...
Teddington Lock - 1858
We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it ex...
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West Ham tram and bus depot
Situated in Greengate Street, West Ham, this tram depot opened in October 1906, then housed trolleybuses from June 1937 until April 1960. Motorbus operation commenced in November 1959 until October...
1 memorial
West Brompton Station
A station was first opened here as part of the West London Extension Joint Railway (WLER). In 1869 the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR) opened its own station (pictured, still in use and now Lis...
1 memorial
Eric Dixon
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1 memorial
Regent's Canal Company
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2 memorials
London & South Western Railway
Initially named London and Southampton Railway it connected all the way to Plymouth into a London terminus at Nine Elms. The line was extended in 1848 to terminate at the new station Waterloo. L&am...
2 memorials
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Sir William Rothenstein
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1 memorial
Dennis Brain
Classical horn-player. Born London into a family of horn-players. Killed aged 36 when the sports car he was driving crashed in Hatfield, on the way back to London from an engagement in Edinburgh.
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Friern Barnet & District Local History Society
From their website: "Our founder, John Donovan, lived in Friern Barnet between 1966 and 1995. He became concerned that nothing was being done to record and preserve the history of the area and befo...
1 memorial
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