Railway and civil engineer. Born near Newcastle upon Tyne. Son of George Stephenson who built "the Rocket" locomotive in 1827. Robert was Chief Engineer of the London to Birmingham Railway which opened in 1838, terminating at Euston. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Died at home at 34 Gloucester Square.
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Robert Stephenson
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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert
Designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke. Inaugurated by...
Robert Stephenson statue
The scroll in his right hand probably represents engineering designs.
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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James Brown
Contractors' engineer on the construction of the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
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first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity
See Savoy Theatre.
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Lady Workers' Homes 3 - LWH directors
N6, Makepeace Avenue
These 4 stones are evenly spaced on the horizontal surface of the rim of the pond. We have numbered them clockwise, starting at the west....
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Royal Welch Fusiliers
EC1, Grays Inn Square
That's not a typo in the transcription - The RWF used the spelling Welch in their title, although its use is not consistent in this memor...
1 subject commemorated,
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