Only the most unobservant users of the Piccadilly Line will not know the name Metro Cammell. “England Metro Cammell 1973″ is emblazoned on a steel floorplate under every set of doors on every carriage, thus: It has taken me thirty years of casual acquaintance with this industrial brand before finding out more about it. The [...]
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Metro Cammell
Posted in 20th Century, Public Transport, Victorian period, War, tagged history, london, manufacturing, Metro Cammell, Piccadilly Line, Public transport, railways on 31 December, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Agreeable Breakfast
Posted in Local History, London Historians, People, Reviews, tagged history, Local History, london on 29 December, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After several false starts, co-authors of this blog Russ Willey and your correspondent finally managed to hook up in South Ealing to spend several pleasant hours yakking about London history (and pinball!) and for Russ to sign copies for his excellent book Chambers London Gazetteer for some of our members. The Gazetteer is becoming quite hard to obtain of late [...]
Christmas Quiz – Win a superb signed history book.
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 December, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Winner: We had eight 100% correct entries, so the winner was drawn from a hat (literally). Congratulations to Robert Knight. Quiz is now closed for further entries – many thanks to all those who participated. If you’re bored and would like to win a superb history book, try our Christmas quiz. All answers are [...]
Merry Christmas, readers.
Posted in Uncategorized on 24 December, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Thanks for reading our blog this past four months or so. Please look forward to and expect more and better in 2011. To all our readers, a very merry Christmas. from Mike, Emily and Russ.
Christmas Special
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 December, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry, the Christmas 2010 £10 Special reduction is now closed. If you’d like to sign up for London Historians as a Founder Member at the normal rate, please click here. Christmas present? Have you considered giving a friend or relative a membership to London Historians for Christmas? Fill in the form in the usual way with [...]
Fitzroy: What’s in a Name?
Posted in Georgian period, People, Tudor period, Uncategorized, Victorian period, tagged Beaufort, Charles II, Darwin, Henry VIII, HMS Beagle, Matilda Fitzroy, Met Office, Richard Fitzroy, Robert FitzRoy on 21 December, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fitzroy, as all Radio 4 listeners kno, is a region of the Shipping Forecast. It lies between Trafalgar and Sole and was named after Admiral Robert FitzRoy (1805 – 1865). FitzRoy was a pioneering hydrographer, surveyor and meteorologist who commanded HMS Beagle and was a close friend of both Beaufort (of wind scale fame) and Darwin. [...]
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