Human remains from St James's Gardens, Euston, reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, Prayer service held to mark completion of new memorial.
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Interactive exhibition is open from 15th March to 23rd April at St James's Church, PiccadillyThe lives of Londoners buried in St James's Gardens, Euston, revealed as part of HS2s archaeology programme.
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The remains of explorer Captain Matthew Flinders have been identified by archaeologists working on the HS2 project in a London burial ground.

Captain Flinders led the first circumnavigation of Australia and is credited with naming the country.

Some 61,000 skeletons will be removed from St James's Gardens, where the station for the HS2 rail route will be built near London Euston station.

A recently discovered coffin showed the captain was buried on 23 July 1814.

[Railscot note: St James' Gardens were located on the west side of Euston station, just over Cardington Street. The churchyard was encroached on by the enlargement of the west side of the station in 1887.]
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Archaeological work to remove 45,000 skeletons from a burial site to make way for HS2 construction has begun.
Some 61,000 burials took place at St James's Gardens between 1788 and 1853, beside what is now London Euston station.
Protests and a memorial service were held before the site was closed to create a new terminus station.
HS2 said the dig in Camden would 'add to our understanding of how this city transformed'.
The burial ground is one of 60 archaeological sites along the route between between London and Birmingham which is being explored prior to the construction of the £55.7bn high-speed rail line.
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