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British Waterways London
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Blow-up bridge
'Blow-up' bridge At 3am on 2 October 1874, the boat 'Tilbury', carrying gunpo...
Islington Tunnel - east - lost
Two points about the wording on this plaque. 'Navies' were the men who built...
Islington Tunnel - west
Legging the longest tunnel At 960 yards (878 metres) long, the Islington Tun...
Limehouse basin model
{At the centre of this circular plaque/low relief sculpture:} This plaque was...
St Pancras Basin
St Pancras Basin, just above the lock, was opened in 1870 as a coal wharf. Wh...
Other Subjects
Charles Jones
Architect, engineer and surveyor. Born in Beccles, Suffolk. His works include two Ealing Town Halls: the current one and the previous one, now (2024) NatWest bank at 1a The Mall, Ealing, and severa...
Sir William Cubitt
Civil Engineer. Born Norfolk. President of The Institute of Civil Engineers. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851, and Chairman of its Building committee. Also designed a louvred...
Thomas Telford
Stonemason, architect and civil engineer. Born Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. Aged 12 left school to work for a local stonemason. Aged 25 rode on horseback to London. Built roads, bridges and canals. Telf...
New River Head windmill
Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).
Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners
Consulting engineering firm. Bruce and his brother Colin joined their father's firm in 1919 and 1923. John Wolfe Barry was already a partner. Bruce was knighted after WW2 and on the father's death ...
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