Formed through a merger of the Brompton and Piccadilly Circus and the Great Northern and Strand Railways. It is now part of the Piccadilly tube line.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
Commemorated ati
Piccadilly Circus Station
Underground Heritage information. Piccadilly Circus Station. Listed as a buil...
Other Subjects
Camden Roundhouse
Built to service trains using Euston, London's first railway terminus. It became obsolete by 1855 when locomotives outgrew its turntable. It then became a warehouse for Gilbey's Gin. In the 1960s t...
1 memorial
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
Kindertransport
10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. This was organised mainly by World Jewish Relief, but many Quakers helped the children at stations on the jo...
Event, Children, Transport, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland
2 memorials
Frank Kreppel
Worked at Willesden Garage and killed in a WW1 air raid. The war memorial outside Willesden Bus Garage shows his name as F. Kreppell. However, most records show his surname spelt as Kreppel, includ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Marine Society
From the Marine Society: "Founded with the aim of providing men to fight in the King's ships as Britain faced war with most of Europe, The Marine Society was the world's first charity dedicated to ...
1 memorial
Previously viewed
Queen Elizabeth II Field - N19
N19, Tytherton Road, Foxham Children's Playground
The nearby Tufnell Park Playing Fields are also Fields in Trust and used to have their own plaque. But, a local resident informs us, this...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Joyce Grenfell - SW10
SW10, Elm Park Gardens, 34
Joyce Grenfell, 1910 - 1979, entertainer and writer, lived here in flat no.8, 1957 - 1979. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Stephen Bird
Artist/designer/craft-person. Born Stoke-on-Trent. Initially we could find no information about "S. Bird" but Andrew Behan was more successful so we have him to thank for this page.
3 memorials
Richard Norman Shaw - NW3
NW3, Ellerdale Road, 6
English Heritage Richard Norman Shaw, 1831 - 1912, architect, designed this house in which he lived, worked and died.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 memorial
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