{Circular plaque, around a drawing of the viaduct and St James's Bermondsey church, above a shield and a banner:}
London and Greenwich Railway, 1836
SE8, Deptford High Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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London and Greenwich Railway - Deptford
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, larg...
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London and Greenwich Railway - Deptford
The plaque doesn't mention Fruiterers Passage but we believe the unveiling of the plaque coincided with the Passage being opened by the L...
“Gauging the line” must be a job done on the track itself but we are not sure exactly what. Possibly checking that that track remains fir...
Meredith White Townsend, 1831 - 1911, Editor of The Friend of India and The Calcutta Times, owner editor of The Spectator, lived here c.1...
Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS, discovered the first aniline dyestuff, March 1856, while working in his home laboratory on this site and w...
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