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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Thames Navigation Commission
This plaque surely can't have been intended to be submerged? Did they accide...
We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it ex...
As this is a fairly unusual name, we are presuming he's the same person who is one of the experts on the BBC television series 'Antiques Roadshow'. He has also written about railways.
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened their side of the station in 1860. Another part of the station, The London Chatham and Dover Railway (later South East and Chatham Railway, or SEC...
London Underground station. It has a very complicated layout with many exits/entrances. It is served by the Central, Northern and Waterloo & City lines, as well as the Docklands Light Railway. ...
Our image shows the station building at Stanmore, renamed Stanmore Village. Dewi Williams has more photos of the building, in 1949. In 1882, nearby Bentley Priory, a stately home and deer park, wa...
Comedy actor. Born Bingfield Street, N1. David Benson's 6 minute video of David Benson's Kenneth Williams walk showing the Argyle Square area of London where Kenneth grew up. And the BBC iPlayer ha...
The London Borough of Harrow was formed on 1 April 1965 when it took over responsibilities from Harrow Urban District Council that ceased to exist when the borough was transferred from Middlesex to...
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, PC, FRSL, was both a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was a Co...
Actor. Born at 62 Potter Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. In an extensive career on stage, television and cinema (he appeared in over 200 films), he specialised in villainous parts such as Blofeld...
Barrister, literary critic and Charles I obsessive. He hyphenated his Nicholson with his wife's Hope. Andrew Behan researched this eccentric character, bur first a preamble from Andrew: "I couldn'...
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