The station took over an existing building, number 46, entrance and booking hall on the ground floor with offices above. Became obsolete when the line was extended to Moorgate and was demolished in 1933. Used as a bomb shelter in WW2.
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King William Street underground station
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King William Street underground station
Corporation of London Site of King William Street Underground Station. First ...
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James Buckington Bevington
Of Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey, a successful leather manufacturers. Father of Samuel Bourne.
1 memorial
Sir Clarendon Hyde
Sir Clarendon Hyde, the deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company in 1920.
1 memorial
Thomas Earnshaw
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business...
1 memorial
Covent Garden Jubilee Market Hall
The original Jubilee Market, to the left of this Jubilee Market Hall, was erected in 1904.
1 memorial
Carter and Company / Poole Pottery
Ceramic tile manufacturers. Founded by Jesse Carter, a builders’ merchant and ironmonger from Surrey. It was later renamed as the Poole Pottery. The Carter company produced much of the ceramic til...
3 memorials
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Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church - 2 Fleming
N5, Highbury Quadrant
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
1 subject commemorated
Whitgift Almshouses / Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Croydon
Erected by Archbishop John Whitgift, after he had petitioned and received permission from Queen Elizabeth I to establish a hospital and school in Croydon. The premises provided accommodation for be...
1 memorial
South Eastern and Chatham Railway, 556 men who died in WW1
556 men of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway who fought and died for their country in the Great War, 1914 – 1918.
1 memorial
Southbank Mosaics / London School of Mosaic
Southbank Mosaics actively promotes equal opportunities and cross-cultural, inter-generational mosaic art work. The studio aims to draw on the historic roots of local neighbourhoods traversed by Sh...
26 memorials
Fireman Peter Brian O’Connell Hutchins
Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Colin Comber, to locate the seat of the fire. O...
2 memorials
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