Offramp wrote:
On 13 Jan, 01:56, CJB wrote:
The veritable maze that is the London Underground owes its existence,
at least in part, to a brilliant railway-engineer named James Henry
Greathead, born in Grahamstown, South Africa, on 6 August 1844.

http://london.thesouthafrican.com/li...erground-and-i...

There is a statue of him on Lombard Street, near Bank.

It's actually in Cornhill. It doubles as a fanshaft, hence the grille around
the top of the plinth.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&... 61,,1,-14.02

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