Group    From 1884 

Tilbury Douglas Construction Limited / Interserve

Categories: Engineering

The picture source gives the history of the company, which changed its name in 2007.

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Tilbury Douglas Construction Limited / Interserve

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Fulham Railway Bridge

Fulham Railway Bridge Constructed 1887 to 1889 by London South Western Railwa...

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James Henry Greathead

James Henry Greathead

Railway and tunnelling engineer. Born in Grahamstown, South Africa. Arrived in England in 1859. Studied with and then worked with civil engineer Peter W. Barlow on the Tower Subway tunnel. The trav...

Person, Engineering, South Africa

3 memorials
Brunel's Thames Tunnel

Brunel's Thames Tunnel

The first tunnel in the world under a navigable river. Built between 1825 and 1843 using the tunnelling shield technology invented by Marc Brunel. It was originally intended to be used for horse-dr...

Place, Engineering, Transport

5 memorials
Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers

Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers

Since Tudor times this organisation was responsible for the drainage of the low-lying parts of the whole of the then built-up area of South London.  1848 - subsumed into the Metropolitan Commission...

Group, Engineering

1 memorial
First traffic lights in world

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...

Concept, Engineering, Science

1 memorial
Alexander Binnie

Alexander Binnie

Civil engineer.   Born 77 Ladbroke Grove.  Worked in Wales and then India.  Returned and in 1890 was appointed chief engineer to the London County Council.  Worked on the Blackwall road tunnel, the...

Person, Engineering, India, Wales

3 memorials

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C. B. Fry

C. B. Fry

Sportsman and journalist. Born Charles Burgess Fry in Croydon. Primarily his sport was cricket, but he was also an athlete and played in a football cup final. He taught at Charterhouse School and p...

Person, Education, Literature, Sport / Games, Germany

2 memorials
Hippocrates

Hippocrates

WC1, Gower Street, 136

"Lewis's" is carved up at the top of the building.

2 subjects commemorated
David Norman

David Norman

Businessman and management consultant. He has held posts at many companies, and has been chairman of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. This photo comes from the Kew A...

Person, Commerce, Dance, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Lily Pond

Lily Pond

WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens

Buxton seems to have presented the pond the year before he became Chairman. This is unusual, presumably because it looks a little like th...

1 creator
E. Barr

E. Barr

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial