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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...
Islington Tunnel - east - lost
Two points about the wording on this plaque. 'Navies' were the men who built...
Islington Tunnel - west
Legging the longest tunnel At 960 yards (878 metres) long, the Islington Tun...
Limehouse basin model
{At the centre of this circular plaque/low relief sculpture:} This plaque was...
St Pancras Basin
St Pancras Basin, just above the lock, was opened in 1870 as a coal wharf. Wh...
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William Baker
Railway engineer. In London he built the Battersea Railway Bridge, and was consulting engineer on the West London Extension Railway and the North London Railway.
Sir William Cubitt
Civil Engineer. Born Norfolk. President of The Institute of Civil Engineers. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851, and Chairman of its Building committee. Also designed a louvred...
Thames Tunnel Flood - 1828
During construction, the tunnel was flooded on six separate occasions the worst being the second flooding, on 12 January 1828, in which six workmen died. "Near shift change. Isambard was in the sh...
Sir Henry Bessemer
Engineer known for inventing the Bessemer process for producing steel. Born Charlton, Hertfordshire. Moved to London aged 17. From 1833 he lived at 15 Northampton Square, the EC1 site now occupied ...
Sir Alexander Gibb
Civil engineer. FRS. Born Scotland into a long line of civil engineers. In London worked on: Metropolitan Railway extension Whitechapel tp Bow and Kew Bridge. Died at his home, The Anchorage, Ha...
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister 1940 - 45 and 1951 - 55. Born Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxford, into an aristocratic family. His father was the son of the Duke of Marlborough, and his mother was born in Broo...
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Margaret Nakajima
Andrew Behan attempted to research this lady and wrote: "The only lady I could trace by consulting both the 'England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007' held at the General Regi...
Brown Lenox & Co
Created as Brown & Co, by Samuel Brown, a Naval Captain. Became Brown Lenox & Co in 1828 following Brown going into partnership with his cousin, Samuel Lenox in 1806. The West Ferry Road ...
World War 2
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
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