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| English Heritage Reference: | 487858 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 249/80/108 |
| Property: | TOMB OF WALTER PEART AND HENRY DEAN |
| Street: | HARROW ROAD , W10 |
| Date: | 13/06/2001 |
| Grade: | II |
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| Description: | Tomb of Walter Peart, train driver, and Henry Dean, his fireman. Both died in 1898. Carrara marble headstone with inset relief of a train, set over branches of bay and under a moulded hood. Monument restored and plaque renewed in 1994. Feigned railway tracks over coping above grave. History: erected by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in memory of Walter Peart, train driver and his fireman, Henry Dean, who died trying to save passengers on the Paddington-Windsor Express when their boiler exploded. |
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