Brunel's engine house
The tunnel shaft and pumping house for Marc Brunel's tunnel was constructed between 1825 and 1843. This was the first thoroughfare under a navigable river in the world.
{The image at the top is the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:}
SE16, Railway Avenue, Brunel Engine Museum
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Brunel's Engine House
The engine house was designed by Marc Brunel to be part of the infrastructure...
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but f...
The first tunnel in the world under a navigable river. Built between 1825 and...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Brunel's Engine House
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey...
On this site stood the Paragon Works of the Brilliant Sign Company. Formed in 1888, the company patented the 'brilliant letter' shop sign...
Baldwin and his wife Lucy lived here 1913 - 1937. They must have liked the square because on his retirement they moved to number 69.
J. E. Howard FRS, 1807 - 1883, chemist who discovered anti-malarial use of quinine, lived nearby at 'Lords Meade'. Historic Buildings of ...
Greater London Council Hilaire Belloc, 1870-1953, poet, essayist and historian, lived here, 1900-1905.
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