Engineering company based in Ripley, Derbyshire.
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Butterley Company
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St Pancras Station
St Pancras Station, built originally by the Derby based Midland Railway Compa...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civil engineer. Born Portsea, Hampshire. Constructions include: Great Western Railway and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Died at home, 18 Duke Street (see below). A very popular Brit, as illustrate...
10 memorials
Woolwich Royal Arsenal
Site of armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces. Its origins go back to the 17th century, and it continued producing armaments and associate...
2 memorials
Great Eastern Street
Constructed 1872-6 by The Metropolitan Board of Works. Opened in 1876. Improved in 1880-2.
1 memorial
Pieter Verbruggen
Gun-founder. Son of Jan Verbruggen. The picture shows the second machine built by the Verbruggens.
2 memorials
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Thomas Hood
Born 31 Poultry and died at home in Devonshire Lodge, London. Example: "Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms."
4 memorials
Columbia Market attack
On the first day of the Blitz it seems that a 50kg bomb fell through a ventilation shaft and exploded in the basement of the market which had been designated an air-raid shelter for the local peopl...
1 memorial
Tower Hill Improvement Trust
Created by Tubby Clayton, Dr B R Leftwich, Lord Wakefield and Sir Follett Holt. Purpose: to improve Tower Hill by removing from it certain ugly buildings which at that time disfigured it and hampe...
2 memorials
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