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 King James I. Now, 2007, the New River is still used as a source for London's drinking water and also provides a 25 mile footpath. See also the remains of the windmill. Diamond Geezer has a very comprehensive post. And here is the walking guide.
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New River
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Claremont Close - WW2 damage
The charming insignia seems to show a roofscape, including a church, all behi...
Clarendon Arch - 1786
This bank of earth was raised and formed to support the Channel of the New Ri...
Enfield Millennium Fountain
The Millennium Fountain by Wendy Taylor CBE. Unveiled by the Worshipful the M...
Hugh Myddelton - N21
Formerly Bush Hill House Sir Hugh Myddelton, engineer of the New River, lived...
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Charles Jones
Architect, engineer and surveyor. Born in Beccles, Suffolk. His works include two Ealing Town Halls: the current one and the previous one, now (2024) NatWest bank at 1a The Mall, Ealing, and severa...
1 memorial
A. E. Darby
Bethnal Green Borough Engineer/Architect in 1922, 1926, 1937.
4 memorials
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
British Horological Institute
Founded by a small group of clockmakers, whose aim was to unify the British horological industry and trades in the face of large numbers of imports of clocks and watches from abroad.
1 memorial
Jonathan Shepherd
Junior Assistant 2nd 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,...
1 memorial
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Highgate United Reform Church war memorial
N6, Pond Square, Highgate United Reform Church, forecourt
2015: We read that the cross is being refurbished. 13 or 14 of these names are also on the nearby Highgate Camp memorial. Two of the na...
War dead | WW1
28 subjects commemorated
28 subjects commemorated
Josiah Wedgwood
Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...
Person, Craft / Design, Industry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
4 memorials
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
In 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (descended from the Royal House of Scotland) married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the man who would become George VI when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated. ...
35 memorials
2 memorials
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