Civil engineer. Born Somerset. Worked on the early London underground lines and the Forth Bridge. Was an expert witness at the Tay Bridge disaster enquiry. Died at home in Pangbourne. Imperial College awards a "Sir Benjamin Baker Medal" each year, bestowed on the student with the longest, most luxuriant moustache (we wish).
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Benjamin Baker
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Benjamin Baker - W8
Sir Benjamin Baker, 1840 - 1907, civil engineer, designer of the Forth Bridge...
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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Maxim Gun
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Tom Bates
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William Charles Copperthwaite
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Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners
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Alice Howell
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Dyers' Hall
EC4, Upper Thames Street, Riverbank House
Riverbank House by David Walker Architects was completed in 2011.
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