Contractor responsible for the construction of the Northern Outfall Sewer in 1862-3.
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George Furness
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Northern Outfall Sewer - River Lea
Metropolitan Board of Works Northern Outfall Sewer Constructed 1862 - 63 John...
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Clarendon Arch
The New River had to be carried over Salmon's Brook (now dry). To do this a 660-feet long lead-lined wooden aqueduct was built in 1608-13, known as the Bush Hill Frame.  At the same time a bridge ...
2 memorials
George Turner
Water pump manufacturer of of Dorset Street, Fleet Street (now Salisbury Court, running off Fleet Street to the south), active in the 1830s.
1 memorial
F. Douglas Barton
Borough Engineer and Surveyor in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Frank Douglas Barton was born in 1888 in Stockport, Cheshire, the son of Fr...
1 memorial
George Green
Shipbuilder and philanthropist. Founder of a shipyard in Blackwall, which was subsequently taken over by his three sons, Frederick, Henry and Richard. George endowed several schools in Poplar. He a...
2 memorials
first gas-lit street in the world
The first public street lighting with gas was demonstrated in Pall Mall by Frederick Winsor in 1807. Â In January he lit the street and in June he put on a special gas-lit exhibition here, celebrati...
2 memorials
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