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 plaque scheme here: Red Wheels.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Transport Trust
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First underground railway - red plaque
Metropolitan Railway The world's first underground railway opened from Paddin...
Post Office Railway
'Mail Rail' - Post Office Railway, 1927 - 2003, 6½ mile, 2 ft gauge, driverle...
Roundhouse
The web page given on the plaque plots 900 British transport heritage sites o...
Spa Road Station - Spa Road
The web page given on the plaque plots 900 British transport heritage sites o...
Other Subjects
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
1 memorial
Heath & (Old) Hampstead Society / Hampstead Plaque Fund
The Hampstead Plaque fund was set up, many years ago, by Ralph Wade and has been administered by the Society ever since.
40 memorials
Sir Flinders Petrie
Archaeologist specialising in Egypt. Born Charlton, near Greenwich. His maternal grandfather was Captain Matthew Flinders. Petrie was a self-taught surveyor with minimal university education. St...
1 memorial
International Churchill Society (UK)
From their website: "PRESERVING THE MEMORY OF WINSTON CHURCHILL By celebrating the timeless values of Sir Winston Churchill, ICS will embolden all generations to understand the historical context o...
1 memorial
Submarine War Memorial - 70th anniversary
The memorial has been maintained by the Submariners' Old Comrades, London.
1 memorial
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Lokamanya Tilak
Nationalist and journalist. Born Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the Ratnagiri district, India. He joined the Indian National Congress, but opposed its moderate attitude. Imprisoned for sedition in 1908. He...
1 memorial
Richard Church
SE24, Warmington Road, 2
London Borough of Southwark Richard Church, 1893-1972, writer and poet, lived here, 1905-1912. Plaque renewed 2010.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
1 subject commemorated
Chevalier d'Eon
Diplomat and transvestite. Born Tonnerre, Burgundy, France. Full name: D'Éon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, born of the French nobility. Up until 1763 he had a disting...
Person, Espionage, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, France
3 memorials
Duffield sluice
This was part of the drainage system that kept the south bank free from flooding. The ground being very close to river level it was necessary to have a gate, or sluice-gate, across the drainage pip...
1 memorial
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