Architect. Born Stockport. London works include: Great Court at the British Museum, London City Hall on the river, the Millennium Bridge, Sainsbury building at Holborn Circus, 8 Canada Square in Docklands, 30 Mary Axe (the gherkin), the Willis building in Lime Street, Wembley Stadium, Stansted airport terminal.
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Lord Norman Foster
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Edward Monson, Jnr
This Edward Monson would have been 40 when St Albans was built. His father (Edward Monson) was a civil engineer. and junior's architect son, Edward Charles Philip Monson would have been 15. So we a...
Ptolemy Dean
Architect. Brother of artist Tacita Dean. Grandson of film director Basil Dean.
Lewis Cubitt
Architect. Younger brother of Thomas. Designed King's Cross station, the Great Northern Hotel and the granary building just to the north in the King’s Cross railway lands, all now restored. The...
Sir Walter John Tapper, KCVO, FRIBA, RA, FSA
Sir Walter John Tapper, KCVO, FRIBA, RA, FSA, was born on 21 April 1861 in Bovey Tracey, Devon, the youngest of the six children of George Tapper (1816-1877) and Elizabeth Tapper née Medland (1818-...
William Edward Trent
Architect. Articled to Henry Poston. Later he specialised in cinema design.
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Battle of Brentford, 1642
One of the many battles of the English Civil War. King Charles's forces were advancing on London. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex attempted to stop them at the Brentford bridge. A small pitched...
London Stone
Elizabeth I's occultist, John Dee, believed this stone had magic powers. Elsewhere you may read that it is connected to the Roman Brutus but that story was fabricated in 1862. The Museum of London ...
Henry Doubleday
Naturalist. Born at 62 (the site of which is now number 271) High Street, Epping, Essex. He was the author of the first catalogue of British butterflies and moths, and named a number of new species...
Samuel Nixon
Sculptor. Possibly born and brought up in London. Died at his home, Kennington Place, Kennington Common.
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