3-070-924 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Century of George Stephenson, Father of Railways, 1881. Wylam-on-Tyne; Newburn-on-Tyne; the room in which Stephenson was born at Street House, Wylam; Stephenson's cottage at Killingworth; monument to Stephenson at Newcastle-On-Tyne. Illustration published in a special supplement to celebrate the centenary of the birth of British civil engineer and mechanical engineer George Stephenson (1781-1848). From "Illustrated London News", 1881.