Engineering research. FRS. Born 75 Kempe Road, Willesden. Carried out research on concrete at first the Building Research Station and then the Road Research Laboratory. During WW2 he was scientific adviser to the air ministry and worked with Barnes Wallis on the bouncing bombs used in the Dambusters Raid. In the 1955 film he was played by Colin Tapley. Died at home, Langthwaite, 13 Kewferry Drive, Northwood.
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William Glanville
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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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Sir Duncan Watson, J.P., M.I.E.E.
Duncan Watson was born on 11 January 1873 in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the tenth of the eleven children of Joseph Watson (1831-1905) and Margaret Paton Watson née Connell (1833-1919). His t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Scotland
1 memorial
Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter, architect and poet.
Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Poetry, Sculpture, Seriously Famous, Italy
5 memorials
Watson Strother, A.M.I.C.E., M.I.Mun.E., A.R.I.C.S.
Watson Strother was born on 13 February 1902. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1902 in the South Shields Registration District, Durham and he was the eldest of the three children of J...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Pieter Verbruggen
Gun-founder. Son of Jan Verbruggen. The picture shows the second machine built by the Verbruggens.
2 memorials
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St Lawrence Jewry war memorial
EC2, Guildhall Yard, St Lawrence Jewry
{Inscribed on the main stone plaque:} 1914 - 1918 In memory of the officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the...
3 subjects commemorated
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