Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighting in London. published a lovely piece about the lamp lights of Victorian London still burning across the city.
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first public supply of gas in the world
Commemorated ati
Gas Light and Coke Company - SW1
Unveiled by councillor Carolyn Keen, Lord Mayor of Westminster.
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Colonel George Thomas Landmann
Army officer and engineer. Born Woolwich, the son of a professor at the Royal Military Academy. He studied at the Academy, joined the Royal Engineers and served abroad constructing fortifications, ...
2 memorials
Eaton Hodgkinson
Professor of engineering. FRS.  Born Cheshire.  Studied the strength of columns of various materials and pioneered the application of mathematics to structural design.  Late in life his mental abil...
1 memorial
Chisenhale Works
Built by Morris Cohen to produce veneer for the construction of Spitfire cockpits, as well as propellers and plywood for Mosquito aircraft. The plaque on the building says it existed from the 1930s...
1 memorial
London steam carriage
Londonist have a piece on this early manifestation of the car and steam locomotive, rolled into one.
1 memorial
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 ...
9 memorials
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