Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the construction of Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames tunnel between 1825 and 1843. It has since had many alterations and changes of use. It was restored in 1979.
SE16, Tunnel Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Thames Tunnel Boiler House
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunn...
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but f...
The first tunnel in the world under a navigable river. Built between 1825 and...
Friday Street used to continue northwards up to Cheapside but the top section was badly bombed in WW2 and then built over.
This (Wrenish style) building by Gerald Horsley was built in 1911 on the site of the first station opened in August 1842. Harrow Heritage...
English Heritage Sir Norman Lockyer, 1836-1920, Astronomer, Physicist, and Founder of Nature, Lived here, 1876-1920.
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