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W. Willox, MICE

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Engineer with the Metropolitan Railway Company.

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Baker Street Station

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Sir Joseph Bazalgette

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Pimlico District Heating Undertaking

The first district heating system built in the UK, with the UK's largest thermal store, the accumulator. It supplies heat to 3,256 homes, 50 business premises and three schools. Owned and managed b...

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Pierre Cérésole

Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...

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