Euston Grove was a street in central London, but was demolished with the coming of the new Euston Rail Station in the 1960s. This project presents information about the making of Euston Grove. A particular interest is Number 2 Euston Grove, which was the home of Professor Robert Edmond Grant, zoologist and comparative anatomist, who was employed at University College London. The Grant Museum of Zoology is named in his honour and UCL sponsors the Annual Robert Grant Lecture in his honour.
Today, Euston Grove, London NW1 is little more than a roundabout for buses outside Euston Rail Station. Its most noticable feature is Reginald Wynn Owen’s arresting memorial to railway men and women lost in war. One More…
John Cooke Bourne’s lithograph of Euston Arch and the neo-classical screen in from of the Euston Grove terminus for the railway was published among his Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway (1839) (British Library More…
Edward Wallis produced a Guide for Strangers through London that became an essential tool for visitors to London. Successive editions (1813, 1821, 1826, 1841) allow the historian to trace the growth of many parts of the city, More…
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