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Red Cross Street

Red Cross Street

Used to run from the Beech Street / Golden Lane junction, where there was a red cross, due south to St Giles Cripplegate at Fore Street.   Londonist have found a map that shows the Barbican overlai...

Place, Transport

1 memorial
Regent's Canal Company

Regent's Canal Company

Created following the passing of the Regent's Canal Bill in July 1812, to cut a new canal from the Grand Junction Canal in Paddington to Limehouse and the Thames. John Nash was a large shareholder;...

Group, Engineering, Transport

2 memorials
John Richards

John Richards

Windrush Pioneer. Born Jamaica. Aged 19, he travelled to the US to work on Louisiana farms. In 1948 he emigrated on the Windrush to the UK. On arrival he was one of the 256 migrants housed in Claph...

Person, Transport, Jamaica

1 memorial
Private William Henry Richter

Private William Henry Richter

William Henry Richter was born on 4 February 1898, the son of Joseph Richter (1863-1937) and Alice Richter née Griffin (1864-1923). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1898 in the Maryle...

Person, Armed Forces, Transport, Belgium

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
RMS Lusitania

RMS Lusitania

Passenger liner. She was awarded the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing, and for a while was the largest ship afloat. She was torpedoed by a German U-boat, off the west coast of Ireland,...

Vehicle, Tragedy, Transport

1 memorial
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