Inventor, industrial archaeologist, leading figure in patent reform and the first clerk to the commissioners of patents. Born Lancashire. Appointed professor of machinery at University College London in 1847. Much of the collection of early industrial devices at the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) is due to him.
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Bennet Woodcroft
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Bennet Woodcroft keystone
{The base of the bow window above carries the ornate lettering:} Bennet Woodc...
Other Subjects
Belsize Residents’ Association
From their website: "The Belsize Residents Association grew out of a campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s to stop the area being split in two by a motorway." The group "seek to preserve the ...
Ragged School Museum
In 1877 a ragged school was set up by Dr Barnardo at 46-50 Copperfield Road, E3, in a group of three canal-side warehouses. The school closed in 1908 when there were enough schools in the area run...
Comic Heritage
Merged with the Heritage Foundation.
Dr John Venn
Logician and philosopher. Born Hull where his father was vicar of a local parish. Grandson of Rev John Venn. Inventor of the Venn diagram. In 1888 he seems to have tired of logic and turned to ...
Martin Sugarman
Chair Hackney-Haifa Twinning Association and co-chair, with councillor Linda Kelly, of the Britain and Israel Olympic Plaque Committee. In 2021 Sugarman was working with the Association of Jewish ...