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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22Y2_john-william-polidori_London-England.html
Poet & Novelist
Author of
'The Vampyre'
born & died
here
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XQ_duck-island-cottage_London-England.html
This pretty cottage was built in 1841 as the home of the bird-keeper in St. James's Park. It also had a club room for the Ornithological Society of London, which once helped to look after the park's duck and geese.
The design, like a Swiss chal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XK_lord-stanley-of-preston_London-England.html
Purchased the original
Stanley Cup from a silversmith
on this site in 1892 for the people
of Canada to commemorate
amateur and professional
ice hockey.
The Cup is now in the
Hockey Hall of Fame
in Toronto.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22XD_richard-trevithick_London-England.html
Close to this place
Richard Trevithick
Born 1771 - Died 1833
Pioneer of
High Pressure Steam
ran in the year 1808 the
first steam locomotive
to draw passengers
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22WS_first-anaesthesia-in-england_London-England.html
The first
anaesthetic
given in England
was administered
in a house
on this site
19 December
1846
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22WN_william-hazlitt_London-England.html
Essayist
died here
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22QT_j-arthur-rank_London-England.html
Industrialist and
Film Producer
worked here
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22QR_charles-x_London-England.html
last Bourbon
King of France
lived here
1805-1814
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22QP_general-pasquale-paoli_London-England.html
Who fought tirelessly
for the freedom
of Corsica
lived in a building
on this site
'Babbu di a Patria'
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22Q2_lord-ashfield_London-England.html
Albert
Herbert Stanley
Lord
Ashfield
1874-1948
First Chairman of
London Transport
lived here