Civil and mechanical engineer. Born Essex. 1900 he became the first London University professor of engineering. Died unmarried, at his home, 7 Palace Gate Mansions, 29 Palace Gate.
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William Cawthorne Unwin
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Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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W. H. Hall
Erstwhile superintendent of London Central District Schools from 1888 to 1900.
John Runtz
Born at 3 William Street, Kingsland Road. He became a Tunbridge Ware manufacturer, then a music teacher. He broadened his interests to the general education of working-class children and became the...
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Hawthorns High School for Boys
School in Hayes, in the Borough of Hillingdon at which George Orwell taught from 1932 - 1933. He is top right in the photograph.
Central London District Schools
There are several different names which all apply to the same institution. The Central London School District was formed in 1849, when the school district's board acquired a privately owned buildi...
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John Reynolds Roberts
Shopkeeper and philanthropist. Born Camberwell. Aged 17 he and his brother Thomas, left their home in Newington Green and began work in London as errand boys in a drapers. In 1870 he opened a store...
DLR extension to Lewisham - Greenwich
SE10, Cutty Sark Greenwich DLR Station
The rectangular aluminium plaque is on the cutter head which has been painted in a Union Jack-inspired scheme.
Martini Beati - keystone head
EC3, Change Alley
His ringlets are formed by coins. Loose copies of an old penny are placed at the bottom corners: head (a young Victoria) at the left, tai...
Basil Hume, Duncan Terrace
N1, Duncan Terrace, St John the Evangelist
The Haines and Marley plaque is to the left, Hume to the right.
Walter Tull
N17, Northumberland Park, 77
Walter Tull, 1888 - 1918, pioneering footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and pioneering British army officer, lived in a house on this site ...
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