Frederick Bremer, 1872 - 1941. Between 1892 - 1894 in a small workshop in the garden of this house, Fred Bremer and Tom Bates constructed the first British car powered by an internal combustion engine. In 1931 he donated it to Vestry House Museum where it can still be seen today.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E17, Connaught Road, 1
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Frederick Bremer
Engineer and inventor. Born in Stepney. A gas-fitter and plumber by trade, in...
Located in Walthamstow. It was originally a workhouse and then a police stati...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Frederick Bremer
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Hobsons Place This block was built in 1966 by the Greater London Council and was named after Hobson's Place, which was one of the streets...
The sketches on the plaque show: a plan showing a building (Albany Hall) and the neighbouring houses in Domville Grove (all gone); the fr...
Ex-pupil Brian Longman tells us that these two stone plaques, all that remain of the school, were above the entrances. They must have bee...
The Victoria Cross plaques are located on the grass by the memorial. and can be seen in the bottom right of our photograph. Regarding Ce...
The plaque was unveiled by the writer and former MP Gyles Brandreth.
