Person    | Male  Born 1817  Died 1886

George Vulliamy

Categories: Architecture

George Vulliamy

Architect and civil engineer. George John Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy and nephew to the architect Lewis Vulliamy. Designed the charming and inventive ironwork along the embankment: the dolphin (more correctly, sturgeon) lamp posts; the camel or sphinx or swan benches.

He also designed Southwark Park, opened in 1869.

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George Vulliamy

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Cleopatra's needle

Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, th...

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Blackheath Preservation Trust

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G. A. Sexton & Sons

G. A. Sexton & Sons

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Owen Campbell-Jones

Owen Campbell-Jones

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Frank M. Harvey

Frank M. Harvey

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Robert Keirle

Robert Keirle

Was the architect of the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. He designed two magnificent Maharajah fountains in London parks: For Readymoney and for the Maharajah of Vijia...

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