Civil engineer. Born 77 Ladbroke Grove. Worked in Wales and then India. Returned and in 1890 was appointed chief engineer to the London County Council. Worked on the Blackwall road tunnel, the Greenwich foot tunnel and the Barking road bridge over the River Lea. 1892, married with children, he returned to live at his birth-place but died on holiday in Devon.
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Alexander Binnie
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Greenwich Foot Tunnel - north
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the south bank ...
Greenwich Foot Tunnel - south
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the north bank ...
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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Pierre Cérésole
Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...
1 memorial
Sir Duncan Watson, J.P., M.I.E.E.
Duncan Watson was born on 11 January 1873 in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the tenth of the eleven children of Joseph Watson (1831-1905) and Margaret Paton Watson née Connell (1833-1919). His t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Scotland
1 memorial
1 memorial
AC Cars Limited
AC Cars are Britain’s oldest car manufacturers having been producing cars since 1901. Founded by John Weller and John Portwine. The company name comes from an early model, the Auto Carrier, pictur...
1 memorial
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession. It has over 120,000 members in 140 countries, working across industries such as railway, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, energy...
3 memorials
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War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
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