Civil engineer. Born 27 Stamford Street. In London, worked on Waterloo, Southwark and London Bridges. President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, 1845-8. Died at Bengeo, near Hertford.
Easy to confuse with his father of the same name, also a civil engineer. The father did the design work on a number of projects which the son saw through to construction. The name panel at IC may refer to either.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir John Rennie
The pale plaque between the two dark ones carries some near-illegible etching...
{Below an etching of the Rennie bridge:} London bridge 1825 - 1967 These gran...
Nancy's Steps These steps and arch are surviving fragments of the 1831 London...
Professor of engineering. FRS. Born Cheshire. Studied the strength of columns of various materials and pioneered the application of mathematics to structural design. Late in life his mental abil...
This building provided the propulsion for the Croydon atmospheric railway. We don't know when the building was demolished. This 1868 map shows a building approximately '50m north of the bridge' whi...
Civil engineer. Born and died at Austhorpe Lodge, Whitkirk, near Leeds. In 1748 he moved to London initially at Great Turnstile and set up in business first as a scientist and maker of instruments...
Born Dartington, Devon. Engineer. Worked with railways and ships. Died on holiday in Simonstown, South Africa, where he is buried.
(James) Hamish Scott Henderson was a Scottish poet, songwriter, communist, intellectual and soldier. He was a catalyst for the folk revival in Scotland. He was also an accomplished folk song collec...
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
Peters took out a lease on the derelict wharf and a house on Ballast Quay in 1963. Here she created a communal riverside garden from which grew a landscape business, Union Wharf Nursery Garden. Pr...
Liberal politician and internationalist. Born East Sussex. Secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and later President of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance. The phot...
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