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Edward Pease blue plaque

Blue plaque

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This blue commemorative plaque records: Pease House. Edward Pease known as the father of the railways lived here.
Edward Pease was a key financier and organizer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, thus earning him the title "father of the railways."

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