Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the construction of Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames tunnel between 1825 and 1843. It has since had many alterations and changes of use. It was restored in 1979.
SE16, Tunnel Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thames Tunnel Boiler House
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunn...
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but f...
The first tunnel in the world under a navigable river. Built between 1825 and...
Sir Michael Balcon, 1896 - 1977, film producer, worked here, 1938 - 1956. English Heritge
This plaque, on a building in the courtyard behind Old Church Street, is not self-explanatory. What was established in 1798 and rebuilt e...
Behind these houses is a church which was first built as a Catholic chapel to serve this Embassy.
Tommy Trinder, comedian, star of film, stage & radio, was born in this house 24th March 1909. Streatham Society
This plaque is attached to the railings of the building for the British Medical Association. On that dreadful morning medical staff from ...