Group    From 1751  To 1866

Thames Navigation Commission

Categories: Transport

Created in 1751 with responsibility for locks on the river down to Staines.  Subsumed into the Thames Conservancy in 1866.

Three generations of the Treacher family held senior positions in the Thames Navigation from 1791-1863 and kept detailed records (see picture) of their work to improve the Thames.  

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Thames Navigation Commission

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Teddington Lock - 1857

This plaque surely can't have been intended to be submerged? Did they accide...

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Teddington Lock - 1858

We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it ex...

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Other Subjects

AC Cobra

AC Cobra

Designed in 1962 by AC Cars in collaboration with Carroll Shelby, this was generally acknowledged to be one of the fastest two-seater production sports cars in the world.  It went on to achieve fam...

Vehicle, Sport / Games, Transport

1 memorial
Lord Ashfield

Lord Ashfield

Transport organizer and politician. Born Albert Henry Knattriess at New Normanton, Derbyshire. His family moved to the USA in 1880 and changed their surname to Stanley. While working for various tr...

Person, Politics & Administration, Transport, USA

2 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
Esso UK PLC

Esso UK PLC

Fuel company. The name is a phonetic representation of the initials of the company's predecessor Standard Oil. In 1972 it was generally replaced by the name Exxon. 

Group, Transport

2 memorials
Private John William Banner

Private John William Banner

John William Banner was born on 11 September 1880 at 49 Tyneside Terrace, Elswick, Newcastle-On-Tyne, Northumberland, the eldest of the four children of Charles Banner (1845-1918) and Margaret Ann ...

Person, Transport, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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Mortlake Tapestry Works

Mortlake Tapestry Works

Barnes History has a nice hand-drawn map with a pin showing the location of these Tapestry Works, and it gives the history of the site. John Dee (1527 -1608) lived in a house on this site (with a l...

Building, Craft / Design

1 memorial