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British Waterways London

Categories: Engineering, Transport

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British Waterways London

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Blow-up bridge

'Blow-up' bridge At 3am on 2 October 1874, the boat 'Tilbury', carrying gunpo...

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Islington Tunnel - east - lost

Two points about the wording on this plaque. 'Navies' were the men who built...

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Islington Tunnel - west

Legging the longest tunnel  At 960 yards (878 metres) long, the Islington Tun...

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Limehouse basin model

{At the centre of this circular plaque/low relief sculpture:} This plaque was...

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St Pancras Basin

St Pancras Basin, just above the lock, was opened in 1870 as a coal wharf. Wh...

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Other Subjects

London steam carriage

London steam carriage

Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.

Vehicle, Engineering, Transport

1 memorial
First traffic lights in world

First traffic lights in world

Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously injuring the policeman who was operating it. See the IET and the Victorianist for two different takes on the story. 20...

Concept, Engineering, Science

1 memorial
Peter Frank Stott

Peter Frank Stott

Civil engineer. Eight years working in Australia. Director of Highways and Transportation at the GLC 1964-67. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1990. Died Devon.

Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Transport, Australia

2 memorials
Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers

Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers

Since Tudor times this organisation was responsible for the drainage of the low-lying parts of the whole of the then built-up area of South London.  1848 - subsumed into the Metropolitan Commission...

Group, Engineering

1 memorial
John Scott Russell

John Scott Russell

One of the Secretaries to the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition 1851. Engineer and navel architect. Born at Parkhead, near Glasgow. Died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight

Person, Architecture, Engineering, Scotland

1 memorial