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...
Other Subjects
William Luke Duffy
A Writer/Chief Engineer's Clerk on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park...
1 memorial
Maxim Gun
The first portable automatic machine gun. In the 1888 photograph the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) is firing with Maxim standing behind.
1 memorial
William Charles Copperthwaite
Engineer. 1906 Copperthwaite published "Tunnel shields and the use of compressed air in subaqueous works". 2021: We were kindly contacted by Christopher Nobbs (great-nephew of Copperthwaite) who w...
2 memorials
New River Head windmill
Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).
1 memorial
Francis Fowke
Engineer and architect, and a Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers. Born Belfast. In 1862 he was made superintendent of construction of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Alber...
1 memorial