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Station names
Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , Tristán White writes Seeing you're all going on ad nauseum about station names, how about my local one, Canning Town? My sources say it was named after Earl [1] Charles John Canning, last Governor-General (1856-8) and first Viceroy (1858-62) of India (he was in power during the Mutiny). This makes sense since the town sprung up around 1850 to house workers servicing the docks handling traffic to and from India. If it's the same Canning as Canning Dock in Liverpool, then it seems to go back a little further: http://www.diduknow.info/docks/acces..._history8.html 1832 Canning Dock is officially named after the politician, George Canning. Though it was built much earlier, if this source is right: http://www.merseyside.org.uk/researc...fLiverpool.pdf The first commercial wet dock in the world was Canning Dock, built in Liverpool in 1715. |
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