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S. G. Purkis

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S. G. Purkis

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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Sir Hiram Maxim

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William Booth Scott

William Booth Scott

William Booth Scott was born on 18 August 1822 in Hammersmith, the son of John James Scott (1789-1860) and Sophie Scott née Germaine (1791-1850). He married Emily Murley Porter (1825-1901), the ma...

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Cuthbert Arthur Brereton

Cuthbert Arthur Brereton

Civil engineer. His many projects include: with Wolfe-Barry, the 1903 Kew Bridge, over the Thames, correctly known as King Edward VII Bridge; his involvement with the construction of the Barry and ...

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William Rankine

William Rankine

Born Edinburgh. Physicist. Worked in thermodynamics. Never married but was musical and wrote humorous songs. Died Glasgow.

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Myddelton House

Myddelton House

This site was previously occupied by an Elizabethan red-brick building known as Bowling Green House. In 1613 Hugh Myddelton, constructed the New River, the course of which bisected the land around ...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Shakespeare bust - Wyndham's

Shakespeare bust - Wyndham's

WC2, Charing Cross Road, Wyndham's Theatre

This bust, high up in the pediment, is supported on each side by a muse, in the usual flimsy garb.

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