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Page for a book showing proposed sites in London for a passenger steam railway

Illustration in a book of Trevithick's plan for London railway 1808

drawing

Illustration

Trevithick's Cottage.

Page from A Cornish Giant book showing print of Trevithick's childhood home at Penponds, Camborne

Picture of Trevithick's childhood home at Penponds, Camborne

Pages from a book with technical drawings

The lantern slide is annotated 'showing stone sleepers' but these are not clear.

Photograph stamped with"Copyright Photo Bennetts, Camborne"
WJ Bennetts, Cross Street, Camborne.
Statue unveiled in 1932

Crowd at Trevithick Day, Centenary of Richard Trevithick's death

Statue unveiled by Prince George, Duke of Kent, later George VI,
possibly young man with bowler in left hand to right of statue.
Note large crowd, apparently thousands of people were there.

Bronze depicts a young woman kneeling next to locomotive engine.
Bronze is titled "Methyr Tydfil Locomotive"

Trevithick Day, Centenary of Trevithick's Death

Trevithick Richard Cottage lived till1816 emigrated to Peru P L 95.

A postcard featuring a drawing by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) depicting a circular railway laid down by Richard Trevithick in 1808 on a site which is now Torrington Square, near Euston Station. The locomotive was designed by Trevithick and called…

The plaque commemorates the site where the first locomotive engine was built and run.