1854 - 1931
This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and engineer who in the XIX century invented and perfected the compound steam turbine.
The memory of the great is enshrined in books.
WC1, Guilford Street, London House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Parsons Library
Scientist and engineer. Designed marine turbines. Born 13 Connaught Place, H...
The building to the east, Marconi House, has close connections to this site and we have recorded some of their joint history there.
Below two of the ground floor windows, on the stone window surrounds, are carved about 15 sets of initials (including E. K. G.; F. E.; K....
{Above a stylized picture of two performers:} Palace Theatre Built for Richard D'Oyly Carte in 1891 by T E Colcutt and known as the 'Roya...
Borough Tube Station This was a station of the City and South London Railway that opened in 1890. The line was the world's first undergro...
From the ever-useful Lost Hospitals: In 1868 the Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital moved into Avenue ...
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