The flag ship, the largest of 3 ships, in which Columbus discovered America. It was a 'caravel' a particular type of sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th and 16th centuries. Our picture shows a replica.
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Santa Maria, ship
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Sante Maria weather vane
Made of beaten copper. War-damaged in 1944 it was restored and re-erected in...
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The Waterloo Way
Following victory at the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington’s personal handwritten record of events, the Waterloo Dispatch, was carried to London by Major Henry Percy, an aide de camp to th...
2 memorials
London and Greenwich Railway
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, largely on viaducts, between Deptford and Spa Road Bermondsey. By 1838 it had been extended at both ends: from Deptford to G...
6 memorials
Transport Trust
The Transport Trust is a charitable institution that aims to increase and channel support for transport preservation, acting as the hub of the transport preservation movement. More about their pla...
6 memorials
Surrey Docks
The south bank of the Thames used to be in Surrey, now in Southwark. The first dock created here in 1696 was initially named Howland Great Wet Dock and then Greenland Dock due to the whaling ships ...
10 memorials
First car park in Marylebone
The first municipal car park in St Marylebone was unveiled in 1965.
1 memorial
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1745 Association
Oddly with a contact address in Oxfordshire, this association does a splendid job keeping the story of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 alive.
1 memorial
University Boat Race stone - finish
SW14, Thames Bank
Not a memorial at all but interesting nonetheless - this 'University Stone', together with the striped 'University Post' opposite, mark ...
1 subject commemorated
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