Erection date: 24/7/1912
This stone was laid by the Rt. Hon. Lord Aberconway, PC, Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company, 24 July 1912.
R.H. Selbie - General Manager
W. Willox, MICE - Engineer
This plaque is somewhat reticent about its function which is to commemorate the laying of the first stone at Baker Street Station.
NW1, Marylebone Road
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Baker Street Station
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Baker Street Station
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Politician. Born Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren in Edinburgh. He began his c...
General Manager and one of the Directors of the Metropolitan Railway Company,
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Baker Street Station
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Greater London Council Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, 1827 - 1900, anthropologist and archaeologist, lived here.
Marie Taglioni, 1809 - 1884, ballet dancer, lived here in 1875 - 1876. London County Council
Almost all of the lettering (lead letters pinned into stone) has dropped off, or been taken off, so most of the names are illegible - the...
George Basevi, 1794 - 1845, architect, lived here. London County Council
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