The conversion to automatic operation of all the lighthouses and light vessels. The last one to be done (perfectly timed to occur on Trafalgar Day) was North Foreland Light in Kent. For the 400 years previous, Lighthouse Keepers and their colleagues in the Light Vessel Service had provided the manual operation. The first lighthouse was built at Lowestoft in 1609.
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Lighthouse Automation Programme
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Lighthouse keepers
The 'Elder Brethren' are the court of 31 people who run Trinity House, under ...
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New River
The so-called New River is actually an aqueduct built 1609 - 1613 from near Ware, Hertfordshire, to Islington to bring fresh water from country springs to the City. It required a 1602 charter from ...
8 memorials
William Rankine
Born Edinburgh. Physicist. Worked in thermodynamics. Never married but was musical and wrote humorous songs. Died Glasgow.
2 memorials
Thomas Millar
Deck Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Stree...
1 memorial
Nine Elms Motive Power
This depot was responsible for the locomotives working out of Waterloo. Locomotive, carriage and wagon workshops were built in 1839 in Vauxhall at the end of Nine Elms Lane. Rebuilt following an 18...
2 memorials
James W. Croxford
Surveyor, civil engineer, working with Brentford Council in 1909.
1 memorial
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Wandsworth VCs and GCs
SW18, Fairfield Street, front garden
These plaques are to the north of the fountain in the front garden of Wandsworth Town Hall, on Fairfield Street. The time capsule stone i...
War dead, War served | WW1, WW2, Other war
20 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
20 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Nigel Gresley statue
N1, King's Cross Station, King's Cross Station
Our photo shows the statue shortly after unveiling, with only a temporary notice. By February 2017 this had been replaced with a plaque. ...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
members of the Polytechnic lost in WW1 and WW2
Was the Regent Street Polytechnic, now the University of Westminster.
1 memorial
Fireman Colin Comber
Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Peter Brian O'Connell Hutchins, to locate the s...
2 memorials
Lord Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Conservative Prime Minister: 1885-6; 1886-92; 1895-1902. Too many names: Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil. Also known as Lord Robert Cecil (before 1865), and Viscount Cranborne (1865-1868). Born...
3 memorials
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