Civil engineer. Born 77 Ladbroke Grove. Worked in Wales and then India. Returned and in 1890 was appointed chief engineer to the London County Council. Worked on the Blackwall road tunnel, the Greenwich foot tunnel and the Barking road bridge over the River Lea. 1892, married with children, he returned to live at his birth-place but died on holiday in Devon.
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Alexander Binnie
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Greenwich Foot Tunnel - north
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the south bank ...
Greenwich Foot Tunnel - south
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the north bank ...
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Represents mechanical engineers and the engineering profession. It has over 120,000 members in 140 countries, working across industries such as railway, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, energy...
3 memorials
British Horological Institute
Founded by a small group of clockmakers, whose aim was to unify the British horological industry and trades in the face of large numbers of imports of clocks and watches from abroad.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Norman E. Harrison, A.M.I.Mech.E.
Junior 2rd Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Ba...
1 memorial
Norwood pumping station
This building provided the propulsion for the Croydon atmospheric railway. We don't know when the building was demolished. This 1868 map shows a building approximately '50m north of the bridge' whi...
1 memorial
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