Erection date: 2006
Bakerloo Line
Centenary of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, 1906 - 2006
WC2, Villiers Street, Embankment Station
The plaque is at the entrance to the southbound Bakerloo line.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Centenary - Embankment
London Underground line running from Elephant and Castle to Harrow and Wealds...
Constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, between B...
London County Council William Wilkie Collins, 1824 - 1889, novelist, lived here.
Lansbury's house was destroyed by bombs only a few months after he died. We're sure Tower Hamlets had a good reason for creating a new pl...
The 6 VC plaques are laid into the ground in front of the monument.
Alfred Bestall, 1892 - 1986, illustrator of Rupert Bear, lived here 1936 - 1966. English Heritage
Engraver and medallist. Born Birmingham, his father Thomas also being an engraver as were a number of other (male, obviously) members of his family such as Edward Wyon, his brother. Chief engrave...
In 1903-10 the Savoy Hotel was built by Colcutt and Macmurdo. The magnificently Art Deco Savoy Theatre is in the western section. The sho...
The plaque leads us to believe that all these men were killed in one bombing incident at one location but does not identify the event. We...
The plaque shows a detail from a design for the silk fabric produced in Spitalfields. We believe the design shows a pomegranate in the Ja...
The building was erected 1935 -63, designed by Sir Herbert Baker and Scott and their successor Helbing. These memorials are all inside wh...
