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.
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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...
We know Churchill built walls himself as a hobby but we think Angela probably got some help.
Evelyn Underhill, 1875 - 1941, Christian philosopher and teacher, lived here, 1907 - 1939. English Heritage
This plaque must have originally been erected on the Church Street building, and brought here when the residents moved in 1974.
The plaque is actually in Royal Avenue on the side of this building. Note: Unusually traffic travels anti-clockwise around Royal Avenue.
The Bowman plaque can be seen in our photo at the bottom left. A notice board just outside our photo, to the right, gives some history of...
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
'fl' stands for 'floruit' (Latin) which means 'he or she flourished', and denotes the period during which a person was alive.
The building by E. R. Robson was erected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, founded in 1831 (the crest in the centre of...
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