This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
first thoroughfare under a navigable river in the world
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Brunel's Engine House
Brunel's engine house The tunnel shaft and pumping house for Marc Brunel's tu...
Thames Tunnel - Rotherhithe
International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Thames Tunnel constructed 1...
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Sir Barnes Wallis
Designer and engineer. Born Barnes Neville Wallis in Ripley, Derbyshire. He was employed by Vickers for most of his working life and designed part of the R100 airship. His most famous achievement w...
London steam carriage
Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.
James Morgan
Probably born in Carmarthen, south Wales. Architect and engineer. Employed by John Nash. Worked on the layout of Regent's Park and on the construction of the Regent's Canal as Chief Engineer of the...
Sir Joseph Bazalgette
Civil engineer. Born in Enfield. As chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works he created the London main drainage system and the Embankment. Great-great grandfather of Sir Peter, the tele...
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Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist. Born to an aristocratic Russian family. 1870s had a spiritual awakening and become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Religion, Seriously Famous, Russia
St Luke's West Norwood war memorial - WW1 & WW2
SE27, Norwood High Street, 13
The steps of the church are a popular meeting place for devotees of the brewing industry. It's rather ironic that just down the way is a ...
Wandsworth Chapel
From The Story of Congregationalism in Surrey we discover that the claim on the plaque that there was a church/chapel erected here in 1573 is more tradition than truth. The early Wandsworth Pres...
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