1854 - 1931
This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and engineer who in the XIX century invented and perfected the compound steam turbine.
The memory of the great is enshrined in books.
WC1, Guilford Street, London House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Parsons Library
Scientist and engineer. Designed marine turbines. Born 13 Connaught Place, H...
The plaque is away from the road, inside the estate, on the north-west wall of Morgan House.
Site of the King's Arms Tavern where the first meeting of the Marine Society held on 23 June 1756.
The lady ticket inspector in our photo very kindly let us through the barrier to take our photos.
The plaque is between the windows on the ground and first floor.
The plaque is actually a resin copy of the one that was attached to the original memorial for the Walworth Scouts drowned at Leysdown. Th...
The numbers at the right hand edge of the plaque seem to be graffiti.
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
The plaque is above the dark van on the left of our photo.
Art historian. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He fled to Britain, after his first book 'A Little History of the World' was banned by the Nazi ...
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