Robert Mylne
Architect. Born Edinburgh. Returned from a Grand Tour to London in 1759. Won the competition to build Blackfriars Bridge, including the approach roads from the north and the south, each with a squa...
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William Chadwell Mylne
William Chadwell Mylne, FRS was a civil engineer and architect. He was descended from a Scottish family of masons and architects, and was the second son of Robert Mylne, who happened to be surveyor...
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Harpinder Singh Narula
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Harpinder Singh Narula was born in December 1953 in India. Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page gives some information about this man.
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New River
The so-called New River is actually an aqueduct built 1609 - 1613 from near Ware, Hertfordshire, to Islington to bring fresh water from country springs to the City. It required a 1602 charter from ...
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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).
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Nine Elms Motive Power
This depot was responsible for the locomotives working out of Waterloo. Locomotive, carriage and wagon workshops were built in 1839 in Vauxhall at the end of Nine Elms Lane. Rebuilt following an 18...
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Northern Outfall Sewer
A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the 'Great Stink' in the Thames of 1858. Our picture shows...
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Northmet
Wikipedia's list of pre-nationalisation UK electric power companies includes the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Company ("Northmet") based in Wood Green, as one of the private companies. ...
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Lord Nuffield, William Morris
Motor manufacturer and philanthropist. Born Worcester. Began work in a bicycle shop and designed the first Morris car in 1912. Founder of the Morris Motor Company and founder of the Nuffield Fou...
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William Oxtoby, A.M.I.C.E.
Appointed Surveyor/Engineer for the Borough of Camberwell c.1898. William Oxtoby was born on 7 February 1862 in Hull, Yorkshire. He was the fourth of the five children of Robert Oxtoby (1823-1874)...
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