Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806 - 1859, great Victorian engineer, his first project was the Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel.
Voted by the people - London Borough of Southwark
SE16, Railway Avenue, Brunel Engine Museum
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel - SE16
Civil engineer. Born Portsea, Hampshire. Constructions include: Great Western...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel - SE16
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...
The western entrance is this porch but we can find no details of how it was improved in 1877, nor can we find anything about the architec...
These almshouses were built c.1847 and badly damaged in WW2 which is when the Society vacated them. They are labelled on the map at Marke...
We'd guess they occupied only a few rooms in this large building.
We are tempted to write a letter to the Times ourselves, bemoaning the excessive length of the text on this plaque: "We trust it is not a...
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