The project was proposed by Sir Edward Watkin who was an MP with a long history of running train companies. He was even involved in a failed venture to build a channel tunnel. Watkin was also ...

It was the idea of Sir Edward Watkin, a railway boss who wanted to boost train traffic. Construction started in 1892, but the tower only made it to about 61 metres before the project ran out of money ...

Perhaps due to a particularly British resistance to the visual trappings of modernity, or a reticence about objects which aren’t immediately useful, certain attempts at joyously futile structures – ...

The Government is ‘crucifying’ elderly people with ‘ever higher’ energy bills, Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh has said (Jacob King/PA) The Government is “crucifying” elderly people ...

In response to Fowler amassing a colossal personal wealth from his endeavours – for his work on the Metropolitan Railway alone he was paid £152,000 (£17.1 million today) – the industrialist Sir Edward ...

The path was named after Sir Edward Watkin, Liberal Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur who had retired to a chalet in Cwm Llan. Prime Minister William Gladstone officially opened it ...

Part II of REPORTER AT LARGE about Sir Edward Watkin's Cha nel Tunnel Company which after having succeeded in tunnelling a mile and three quarters toward France, was ordered by the Board of Trade ...

Sir Edward Watkin, a railway promoter & financier from Manchester was chairman of the South-Eastern Railway Co. He formed the Submarine Continental Railway Co., capitalized it at 250,000 pounds ...

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Amazing fella, Watkin,' says Ray, who works in Number 1. 'He saw all the possibilities of Cleethorpes and he just did it.' What Sir Edward Watkin did was bring the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincoln ...

First elected as an MP in 1983, Sir Edward Leigh will take on his first prominent role as Father of the House, overseeing the election of the Speaker - a job he once had his eye on. He’s the ...