Person    | Male  Born 23/3/1832  Died 27/10/1900

Charles H. Driver

Categories: Architecture

Charles H. Driver

Architect, known for his pioneering use of ornamental iron work.  His work in London includes: The Crystal Palace/Great Exhibition, Thames Embankment, Abbey Mills Pumping House, a number of railway stations.  Worked with Bazalgette on the sewerage system.

2016: A room at Peckham Rye, one of his stations, is being brought back into public use.

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Charles H. Driver

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Slade fountain

On a nearby information board: Slade Fountain – This drinking fountain was in...

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Temple Bar

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Robert Cantwell

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Frieze of Parnassus - Murillo

SW7, Kensington Road

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Botanists

W1, Soho Square, 31-32

The house in which Banks etc lived had had a blue plaque attached in 1911.  When it was demolished and replaced in 1938 with this buildin...

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Virginia Nimarkoh

Virginia Nimarkoh

Artist based in London.

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