Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunnel dry during its construction.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunnel dry during its construction.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thames Tunnel Boiler House
Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the ...
This arch overlooked Dial Square, named for the sundial in the centre. It is the site of the Royal Gun Factories where gun barrels were bored out. In 1886, the workers here formed a football club -...
Motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Born at 32 Bronti Place, Walworth, Surrey. He became chief designer of the Ariel Cycle Company in 1932, where he designed the four-cylinder Square Four power u...
Engineering research. FRS. Born 75 Kempe Road, Willesden. Carried out research on concrete at first the Building Research Station and then the Road Research Laboratory. During WW2 he was scienti...
Civil engineer. Born in Wadsley, Sheffield. Fowler's was a long and eminent career, spanning most of the 19th century's railway expansion, and he was engineer, adviser or consultant to many British...
Resident engineer on the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.