A Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched from the Woolwich Dockyard. She was adapted as a survey barque and took part in three expeditions, the second of which was the voyage on which the young Charles Darwin began to form his theory of evolution.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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HMS Beagle
Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805 - 1865, explorer and pioneer of weather forecast...
At 8.10 a.m. a crowded passenger train from Basingstoke heading for London Waterloo, crashed into another train that had stopped at a signal. A further empty train travelling in the opposite direct...
Our picture is taken from an old map showing London toll gates (black circles), but strangely, nothing appears in Finchley.
Founded by Henry Ford in Detroit. The company opened in Britain at Dagenham in 1931, but production here has been greatly downsized.
Formed by the amalgamation of several railway companies, including: London South Western Railway, London, Brighton & South Coast Railway and South Eastern & Chatham Railway. Southern Railwa...
Fuel company. The name is a phonetic representation of the initials of the company's predecessor Standard Oil. In 1972 it was generally replaced by the name Exxon.
Chairman of National Provident Institution in 1959. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Lawrence Emlyn Douglas Bevan C.B.E., was born on 7 January 1903 in Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, ...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
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