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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A. A. Langley
Engineer. His name appears on a stone at Abbey Road DLR Station. We have found references to him on-line as an engineer and chief engineer on several railways in Britain. Abbey Road DLR Station was...
1 memorial
2 memorials
E. E. Finch
Bethnal Green Borough Engineer in 1909. From The Building News and Engineering Journal, July to December 1918: "Mr. E. E. Finch, the engineer of the City of London, has, with the consent of the co...
1 memorial
Sir Follett Holt, KBE
Railway engineer, very influential in Argentina where he was Chairman of many railway companies. Excelled at polo as a young man. First Chairman of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust. Our picture co...
1 memorial
Pieter Verbruggen
Gun-founder. Son of Jan Verbruggen. The picture shows the second machine built by the Verbruggens.
2 memorials
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St Stephen Walbrook church
EC4, Walbrook, 39, St Stephen Walbrook church
The small blue plaque is below the Palladian window to the left of our photo. Before 2011 the large blue plaque was where the red informa...
10 subjects commemorated
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Mary Fletcher
E11, Lister Road, Lister Hall
On this site stood "The Cedars" wherein Mary Fletcher, née Bosanquet, resided 1763 - 1768. Erected by L.U.D.R.A. 1909.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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