G. W. Pickin, BSc, C.Eng, FICE, FIMunE, FRSA
City of London Engineer in 1977 and 1982.
2 memorials
Pimlico District Heating Undertaking
The first district heating system built in the UK, with the UK's largest thermal store, the accumulator. It supplies heat to 3,256 homes, 50 business premises and three schools. Owned and managed b...
1 memorial
Edward Pinhey
Acting co-churchwarden at St Saviour's Church, Ealing, 1909. Edward Pinhey was born on 28 February 1855 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the second of the eleven children of Robert Hill Pinhey (1831...
Person, Emergency Services, Engineering, Politics & Administration, India
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John Alfred Prestwich
Inventor and designer of engines. Born Kensington.  He worked with Sebastian de Ferranti and the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene to produce cameras, mutoscopes, cutting and perforation machine...
1 memorial
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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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William Rankine
Born Edinburgh. Physicist. Worked in thermodynamics. Never married but was musical and wrote humorous songs. Died Glasgow.
2 memorials
Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney
Companion of the Star of India, a wealthy Parsi gentleman of Bombay. His grandfather and two great-uncles had made their names, literally, in the opium trade with China (facilitated by the British)...
Person, Engineering, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, India
2 memorials
Regent's Canal Company
Created following the passing of the Regent's Canal Bill in July 1812, to cut a new canal from the Grand Junction Canal in Paddington to Limehouse and the Thames. John Nash was a large shareholder;...
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