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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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Tom Bates

Tom Bates

Assistant to Frederick Bremer. He helped build the first British motor car with an internal combustion engine.

Person, Engineering

1 memorial
Jan Verbruggen

Jan Verbruggen

Master gun-founder and artist. Born at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1763, he and his son Pieter were appointed master founders at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich in 177...

Person, Art, Engineering, Netherlands

2 memorials
James Crosby & Sons Ltd

James Crosby & Sons Ltd

Information about this company is difficult to come by. Andrew Behan found this image at Britain From Above where it is captioned "The James Crosby & Sons Ltd Works off Bridges Road, Ellesmere ...

Group, Engineering

1 memorial
Sir Nigel Gresley

Sir Nigel Gresley

Locomotive engineer. Born Edinburgh into a family that arrived with William the Conqueror and were granted a hereditary baronetcy in the early 17th century. Raised in Derbyshire. Rapidly rose from ...

Person, Engineering, Scotland

2 memorials
Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor

Electronics engineer and humanist. Born as Dénes Gábor, in Budapest, Hungary. He worked in Germany for several years, but moved to England when Adolf Hitler came to power. he invented holography in...

Person, Engineering, Germany, Hungary

1 memorial

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Petticoat Lane Market

Petticoat Lane Market

By 1608 this street was known as Peticote Lane for the second-hand clothes, etc. which were bought and sold here, right on the boundary with the City. In about 1830 the street name was changed to M...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial
Queen Charlotte

Queen Charlotte

Charlotte Sophia, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz married King George III in 1761, 2 weeks before their coronation and only a few hours after meeting him. Produced many children in between nurs...

Person, Royalty, Germany

4 memorials
Lord William Russell

Lord William Russell

Son of the 5th Earl Bedford. MP for Tavistock.  Convicted of being part of the Rye House Plot to assassinate the Catholic King Charles II and beheaded, eventually, in Lincoln's Inn Fields.  When th...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Susanna Annesley Wesley

Susanna Annesley Wesley

Born 7, Spital Yard, the 25th, and last (phew) child.  Her father, Dr. Samuel Annesley, was a minister, but a dissenter of the established church of England.   On becoming a teenager Susanna, centu...

Person, Religion

3 memorials