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Station names
"Bob Watt" a écrit dans le message de news: ... On 27/04/2004 20:30, in article , "Annabel Smyth" wrote: I thought it was because of canning factories, myself, BICBW. After all, the plaque in the station commemorates a ship-builders..... (it's now my local work station, as opposed to home, so I use it most days). "The London Encyclopaedia" suggests it may have been named after Lord Canning, the Governor-General of India about 1850. The shipyard and the Victoria Dock were the main local industries. There was also a large glassworks. |
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