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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Kingschoole sluice
"Kingschoole" refers to the passage of the Tyburn river through the grounds of Westminster School. 'Sluice' refers to an artificial water channel controlled at its head by a gate. And there is in...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
The first district heating system built in the UK, with the UK's largest thermal store, the accumulator. It supplies heat to 3,256 homes, 50 business premises and three schools. Owned and managed b...
1 memorial
Captain Michael Studholme
HM Surveyor of Roads, 1690-1715. Not a poor man, he owned property in St Martin's-in-the-Fields, St James's and Dover.
1 memorial
Jan Verbruggen
Master gun-founder and artist. Born at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1763, he and his son Pieter were appointed master founders at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich in 177...
2 memorials
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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