Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806 - 1859, great Victorian engineer, his first project was the Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel.
Voted by the people - London Borough of Southwark
SE16, Railway Avenue, Brunel Engine Museum
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel - SE16
Civil engineer. Born Portsea, Hampshire. Constructions include: Great Western...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel - SE16
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
Unveiled by Sir Williams’ son, Jake Empson. At no 71 Empson lived in the the first floor flat.
Rabbi Dr Leo Baeck, 1873 - 1956, theologian, teacher and philosopher, lived here, 1945 - 1956. Erected by the Association of Jewish Refug...
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
The Taxation plaque is the one nearest the camera. The St Benet blue plaque is on the far wall and the St Benet inscribed stone plaque i...
Riverbank House by David Walker Architects was completed in 2011.
Record album. The fifth to be released by Bob Marley and the Wailers on Island Records.
This 1940-67 NLS map shows a 'picture theatre (disused)' at number 24 (now flat-fronted post-war shops), and at Cinema Treasures we found...
Education reformer and leader of Jewish League for Woman Suffrage. She championed the Parents' National Educational Union and the ideas of Charlotte Mason. Born as Henrietta Montagu in London into...
This home for nurses, the gift of the British War Relief Society of America and other friends of King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers,...
George Godwin, 1813 - 1888, architect, journalist and social reformer, lived here. Greater London Council
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