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. have found a map that shows the Barbican overlaid on top of the old street map of the area.
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Tower Bridge
Named not for its own two towers but for the nearby, pre-existing Tower of London. Tower Bridge was designed by Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with the engineer, John Wolfe Barr...
5 memorials
James (Jim) Selby
Stage coachman. Lived at 7 Edgware Road. On 13 July 1888, he established a record by driving “The Old Times” coach from Hatchett's Hotel to the “Old Ship” at Brighton and back - 108 miles in 7 ho...
1 memorial
Tough Brothers Boatyard
The Boatyard of Tough Brothers, Ferry Road,was at the wharf opposite Teddington Lock. In May 1940 Douglas Tough organised and assembled 100 private boats at that location to join in the Dunkirk eva...
1 memorial
London and Croydon Railway
It ran from London Bridge to central Croydon, partly following the route of the defunct Croydon Canal. It eventually merged with other railways to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway,...
1 memorial
Surrey Iron Railway Company
The first public railway in England, probably the first in the world. A transport system from London to Portsmouth was needed, either a canal or a tramway. The engineer William Jessop, recommende...
2 memorials
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