Thomas Cook's travel empire began in Melbourne
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The photograph on this page of Thomas Cook's travel empire began in Melbourne by Chris Morgan as part of the Geograph project.
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Thomas Cook's travel empire began in Melbourne
Image: © Chris Morgan Taken: 9 May 2017
And this small memorial tells us he was born here in 1808 and died in 1892, about the time my grandparents went on a Cook's tour to Paris
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Image Location
Latitude
52.822163
Longitude
-1.431752