Daily Archive: August 29, 2015

Aug 29

“Poor Tommy worked on the Railway” : The London and North Western Railway, North Wall and the Great War

LNWR Hotel 1886

Along North Wall Quay, situated between the modern developments at Spencer Dock and the shell of what was to be the Anglo-Irish Bank HQ are two somewhat incongruous red brick buildings. These are the former Hotel and Railway Station of the London and North Western Railway Company, an employer of over 90,000 men and women …

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