The NPL's history page concentrates on their work (e.g. they weighed Concorde, no mean feat) rather than their buildings. NPL began its life housed in the former royal residence, Bushy House, in Bushy Park. This photo shows the grand opening of the Queens Road Gates in 1925.
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National Physical Laboratory
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National Physical Laboratory stone war memorial
The National Archive BIS War Memorials has research about all the names on th...
NPL - Golden Jubilee
NPL National Phusical Laboratory Liriodendron Tulipifera Tulip tree This tree...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician and astronomer. Argued that the Sun, not the Earth, was the centre of the universe.
1 memorial
Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS
Chemist. Born King David's Lane, Shadwell. While a student at the Royal College of Chemistry, aged 18 he discovered the first aniline dyestuff while working in his home laboratory. He dropped o...
1 memorial
Archimedes
Mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC.
2 memorials
Professor Sir Christopher Ingold
Chemist. One of chief pioneers of physical organic chemistry. Born 142 Windsor Road, Forest Gate. Brought up on the Isle of Wight. Working in the Chemistry department, University College London, du...
1 memorial
Sir Francis Beaufort
Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower ...
1 memorial
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Holloway Road bus garage - WW1 memorial - lost
N19, Holloway Road
The photo (© TfL from the London Transport Museum collection) of the plaque is from the 'News of T.O.T.' article which is held by the Lon...
War dead | WW1
41 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
41 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
1 memorial
Walter Macqueen-Pope
Theatre manager and historian. Born Walter James Macqueen-Pope in Farnham, Surrey. He was business manager at many London theatres including the Queens, the Duke of York's and the London Palladium....
1 memorial
Imperial Hotel - statue 08 - Wolsey
WC1, Russell Square
Sampson Strong's portrait of Wolsey has these clothes and, crucially, the raised fingers.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Herbert McConaghey / Herbert Maconoghu
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
1 memorial
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