A train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains. It operates commuter/regional services from its Central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor, as well as long distance services to the West Midlands.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Chiltern Railways
As the gateway to Metroland, Betjeman was fond of this station.
Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1921-1947. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 10 January 1947 carries an obituary: "Captain Will...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Transport
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Written by the 'Separatists' who were passengers on the Mayflower. It was signed by forty-one members while the ship was anchored in what is now Pro...
Named not for its own two towers but for the nearby, pre-existing Tower of London. Tower Bridge was designed by Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with the engineer, John Wolfe Barr...
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...
A lifelong professional railwayman who within the Thameslink project team helped transform rail travel through the heart of central London.
Fought on the anti-royalist side in the Civil War. In 1652 he married for the second time to Bridget, Cromwell's daughter and widow of Henry Ireton. That same year he was appointed Lord Deputy of I...
International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa). Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad. Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935. Worked as ...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana
See our page for the original statue for a description of the Brown Dog affair. This ended when, in 1910 the original statue was removed...
Not the style, but the high quality of this plaque reminds us of the one in Bessborough Gardens, unveiled by the Prince of Wales the year...
26 Russell Street (previously Great Russel Street). Pubs History lists licencees from 1848 but it dates back to the 18th century at least. Closed by 1922.
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