Erection date: 2016
In honour of Asquith Xavier who successfully fought to become the first black worker employed as a train guard at London Euston station in 1966.
Network Rail.
Unveiled in the the fiftieth anniversary year of his victory.
NW1, Euston Station
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Asquith Xavier
Asquith Camile Xavier was born in the West Indies. One of the Windrush genera...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Asquith Xavier
Government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in G...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Asquith Xavier
T.A. Greeves, 1917 - 1997, architect & artist co-founder of the Bedford Park Society, lived here. Bedford Park Society
Following a 2016 campaign another memorial was erected nearby to commemorate all those Camberwell citizens lost in WW1.
The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since he was not present at the event commemorated. In Conan Doyle...
The plaque refers to the memorial being 'refurbished'. Diamond Geezer explains that previously there was a cross painted on one of the pi...
This building, erected in 1957, is named after Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor, G.B.E., K.C., Lord Maenan, a Master of the Bench, 1905 ...
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