Thomas Cook - Loughborough Train Station - Loughborough, Leicestershire - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

A white plaque on the front of Loughborough Train Station, celebrating 150 years of Thomas Cook Travel 1841-1991.

Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England founded the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son (popularly nicknamed Cook's Tours) that became Thomas Cook AG before eventually becoming Thomas Cook Group in 2007.

"Cook's idea to offer excursions came to him while "walking from Market Harborough to Leicester to attend a meeting of the Temperance Society". With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street railway station to a teetotal rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away. On 5 July 1841, Thomas Cook escorted around 500 people, who paid one shilling each for the return train journey, on his first excursion. During the following three summers he planned and conducted outings for local temperance societies and Sunday school children."

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Blue Plaque managing agency: British Midlands Rail Individual Recognized: Thomas Cook Physical Address: Loughborough Train Station Loughborough, Leicestershire England LE11 1HW Web Address: Not listed

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