The building contains a staircase down to the tunnel and pedestrian footpath. The photograph is of this airshaft's partner on the north bank.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft
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Rotherhithe Tunnel Airshaft
{Beneath the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:} Rotherhithe Tunn...
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Bentley Motor Car
Walter Owen Bentley (1888 - 1971), "W. O." to his friends, founded Bentley Motors Limited. The chassis for the first model (3 litres) was exhibited at the London Motor Show in October 1919. By Dece...
2 memorials
5 memorials
Royal Arsenal Brass Foundry
It was built when it was found that there were low stocks of artillery - but also in response to a fatal explosion in a private contractor's London foundry. In addition to its obvious casting funct...
2 memorials
Leonard Hodgkinson
Senior 4th 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, Above Bar...
1 memorial
Thames Water
When this authority was formed it took over responsibility for water supply from a number of other bodies including the Metropolitan Water Board.
3 memorials
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Max Nicholson sundial
SE1, Queen's Walk, Potters Fields Park
The sundial's own website has been usurped by the usual smut, but London SE1 has a report of the unveiling. The sundial is on a concrete ...
6 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Geoffrey Barkington
EC2, Houndsditch, Jubilee Gardens
The memorial is a bench, and is one of ten new ones in the City of London. They are the result of a 2018 design competition organised by ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Michael Costa
SW1, Eccleston Square, 59-60, Wilton Court
Sir Michael Costa, 1808 - 1884, conductor and orchestra reformer, lived here, 1857 - 1883. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated
Geoffrey Chaucer
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbur...
11 memorials
Scotland Yard
The first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police were named after the entrance on Great Scotland Yard. In about 1890 they moved from here to new premises by Norman Shaw on the Victoria Embankment,...
1 memorial