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21East Kent Light Railway — The East Kent Light Railway was part of the Colonel Stephens group of cheaply built rural light railways in England. Holman Fred Stephens was engineer from its inception, subsequently becoming director and manager. The line ran from Shepherdswell …
22Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway — The Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway was the first railway in Scotland, opened in 1722. It was 2½ miles long and connected two towns in East Lothian, transporting coal from the pit heads at Tranent to Cockenzie harbour via Meadowmill. Horse drawn… …
23Luke Thompson (politician) — Sir Luke Thompson (18 July 1867 [Births Index, England and Wales, 1867 September quarter, volume 10a, page 472] ndash; 15 January 1941 [Deaths Index, England and Wales, 1941 March quarter, volume 10a, page 1234] ) was a British coal merchant and… …
24Speculation — • A term used with reference to business transactions to signify the investing of money at a risk of loss on the chance of unusual gain Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Speculation Speculation …
25John Walter (publisher) — For this man s son and grandson of the same name, see John Walter (second) and John Walter (third) respectively. John Walter (1738/9 November 17, 1812), founder of The Times newspaper, London, was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors… …
26Richard Beard (photographer) — Richard Beard (22 December, 1801 – 7 June, 1885) was an English entrepreneur and photographer who vigorously protected his photographic business by litigation over his photographic patents and helped to establish professional photography in the… …
27Old Church Street — is a street in London, England in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.[1] It runs from Chelsea Embankment to Fulham Road, crossing Kings Road. The section to the north of Kings Road is sometimes called Upper Old Church Street. At the… …
28Prescott Metcalf — Infobox Officeholder imagesize = title = Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania order = 8th term start = 1862 term end = 1864 predecessor = Sherburn Smith successor = F. F. Farrar birth date =birth date|1813|1|25 birth place = Putney, Vermont death date… …
29Edwin Cornwall — Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall, 1st Baronet PC DL (30 June 1863 ndash;27 February 1953) was an English politician and coal merchant.Cornwall was born in Lapford, Devon. At the age of thirteen he became a clerk in a coal merchant s in Hammersmith,… …
30Burton, Wiltshire — Burton is a small village with 96 households (March 2009) in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England. Kelly s Directory of Wiltshire of 1915[1] identifies Burton as the most important part of the parish of Nettleton. It is… …
