Northern Outfall Sewer, part of London's main drainage system, constructed mid 19th century by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Bow Heritage Trail
E3, Dace Road/Wick Lane
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Northern Outfall Sewer - Dace Road
Responsible for managing London's infrastructure, such as roads, sewage, etc....
Civil engineer. Born in Enfield. As chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board...
A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by S...
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Northern Outfall Sewer - Dace Road
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middle...
Leopold Stokowski Society - London Leopold Anthony Stokowski, musician, 1882 - 1977, attended this school.
The monument, first unveiled in 1952, was next to the ruins of a mid-19th century church which was bombed and destroyed during the war. R...
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
Current maps show Ewer Street shaped like a T on its side - very unusual. An 1862 map shows an L-shaped Ewer Street (without the northern...
Doctor Barnardo, 1845 - 1905, began his work for children in a building on this site in 1866. London County Council
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010, at least, he lived in Wilkes Street Spitalfields and created these unusual pavement plaques. We understand they were c...
Plaque unveiled by Angela Smith Baroness Smith of Basildon, together with members of the Airship Heritage Trust. Wikipedia has this plaq...
His style moved from Victorian to art deco.Other work: decorations to Thames House on northern approach to Southwark Bridge.
See also 2012 Paralympics. The first event was held on 25 July in Cardiff but the opening ceremony in London was on the 27th. Closing ceremony 12 August.
The quotation is from Psalm 41, the King James Version. While at school, Shaftesbury, a Christian teenager, witnessed a pauper's funeral...
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