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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Paddington Station centenary
London terminus for Great Western Railways since 1838. The current station was designed by Brunel in 1854. The underground arrived in 1863 and Paddington was the original western terminus for the...
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London steam carriage
Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.
1 memorial
François Hennebique
Engineer and builder. One of the early innovators with reinforced concrete initially in Brussels. In 1892, he patented a reinforced-concrete construction system. The first building erected using th...
1 memorial
Peter Lind and Co Ltd
Peter Lind was a Danish construction engineer who came to England when, in 1913 he was appointed designer for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company. His firm built the silos for The S...
1 memorial
Kingschoole sluice
"Kingschoole" refers to the passage of the Tyburn river through the grounds of Westminster School. 'Sluice' refers to an artificial water channel controlled at its head by a gate. And there is in...
1 memorial
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