Engineer known for inventing the Bessemer process for producing steel. Born Charlton, Hertfordshire. Moved to London aged 17. From 1833 he lived at 15 Northampton Square, the EC1 site now occupied by the entrance to City of London University. Died at home at 165 Denmark Hill.
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Sir Henry Bessemer
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Sir Henry Bessemer
Our visit coincided with a small exhibition about the history of the site. An...
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1 memorial
George Robert Welby Wheeler, AMICE
George Robert Welby Wheeler was born on 20 November 1845 in Bermondsey, Surrey (now Greater London), the eldest of the six children of George Charles Wheeler (1820-1886) and Charlotte Wheeler née W...
1 memorial
Sir Alfred Seale Haslam
Engineer and politician. Born Derby. He saw the potential of refrigeration and developed equipment that was used extensively both on land and on ships. Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1891 he fund...
1 memorial
James Morgan
Probably born in Carmarthen, south Wales. Architect and engineer. Employed by John Nash. Worked on the layout of Regent's Park and on the construction of the Regent's Canal as Chief Engineer of the...
3 memorials
Northern Outfall Sewer
A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the 'Great Stink' in the Thames of 1858. Our picture shows...
2 memorials
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Jack B. Yeats
Artist. Born John Butler Yeats (to a father with the same name) at 23 Fitzroy Road NW1. Known as Jack B. (he never used the name Butler). He grew up in Sligo and moved back to London, where he work...
1 memorial
Adams-Acton
NW8, Langford Place, 14, Sunny Side
The plaque is just visible in our photo, peeping out from behind the foliage to the upper left of the door. 2023: this house was for sal...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Richard West
Member of the Fishmongers Company. Gave a bell to St Magnus in 1714.
1 memorial
Lord Delfont
SW1, Coventry Street, Prince of Wales Theatre
In our photo the Delfont plaque is just to the left of the white van, though when we photographed it it was high up on the building. Grac...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Moorgate tube disaster - Finsbury Square
EC2, Finsbury Square
The motivating force behind this memorial, the first to the tragedy, erected 38 years after the event, was historian and writer Richard J...
44 subjects commemorated
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