St Marylebone Borough Engineer and Surveyor in 1965.
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S. G. Purkis
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Marylebone's first car park
Borough of St Marylebone This stone commemorates the building of the first mu...
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Lavender Pumphouse
Built to control the water level in the former Surrey Docks.
1 memorial
Peter Lind and Co Ltd
Peter Lind was a Danish construction engineer who came to England when, in 1913 he was appointed designer for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company. His firm built the silos for The S...
1 memorial
First traffic lights in world
Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously injuring the policeman who was operating it. See the IET and the Victorianist for two different takes on the story. 20...
1 memorial
World's first cash machine
In spite of the plaque's claim, there is evidence of a cash dispensing machine being used in Tokyo in 1966. The invention of the British version has been credited to John Shepherd-Barron of the pri...
2 memorials
Robert Stephenson
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 ...
4 memorials
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J. B. Colls
B&S. Lieut HKR NVR. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Lieutenant John Baxter Colls was born in 1910 in Woking, Surrey, a twin son of Arthur Colls and Nellie Alice Fanny Colls née Terry. Hi...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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