Person    | Male  Born 26/3/1839  Died 18/5/1917

Alexander Binnie

Categories: Engineering

Countries: India, Wales

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

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Greenwich Foot Tunnel - south

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Skempton Building plaques

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Wrekin

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