Engineer. Born Evan Owen Williams. He was appointed chief consulting civil engineer to the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley. Later he was the principal engineer for the Gravelly Hill Interchange (better known as 'Spaghetti Junction').
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Sir Owen Williams
Sir Owen Williams, architect & engineer ,1890 - 1969, designed and built ...
{Plaque on the front of the plinth, beneath a drawing of a lion:} The lion wa...
Engineer and builder. One of the early innovators with reinforced concrete initially in Brussels. In 1892, he patented a reinforced-concrete construction system. The first building erected using th...
Politician and inventor of fireproofing systems. Born in Bath, he moved to London where he met and became close friends with Benjamin Franklin. As an MP, he represented Kingston-upon-Hull and becam...
Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, USA
From Colonial Spectacles “John (or Jan) F. Groll was an architect and engineer. After completing his studies in Delft, he worked for the department of public works in British India….” We can't fi...
Civil engineer. Born in Leeds. Moved to London in 1850. He worked on canals and railways around the world, and was involved with the proposed channel tunnel of 1872. His best known construction is ...
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunnel dry during its construction.
Conductor and composer. Born as Michaele Andrea Agniello Costa in Naples, Italy. Prolific writer of operas, symphonies and cantatas, now all virtually forgotten. He moved to Britain in 1830 and bec...
Lime Grove Panorama, Doctor Who and Breakfast Time made here 1949 - 1992. BBC Heritage Trail
The cross is granite and is planted in a cairn of granite boulders, many of which have a flat section carved out and a name spelt out in ...
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