London terminus for Great Western Railways since 1838. The current station was designed by Brunel in 1854. The underground arrived in 1863 and Paddington was the original western terminus for the Metropolitan line, the world's first underground passenger railway.
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Paddington Station centenary
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Paddington Station's centenary
1854 - 1954 This plaque was unveiled on 29th May 1954 to commemorate the cent...
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William Jessop
Civil engineer. Â Born Devon. Â Worked for Smeaton, first as an apprentice and then as assistant until 1772. Â Promoted cast iron as a constructional material. Â Built the Grand Canal in Ireland. Â Buil...
1 memorial
Sir Duncan Watson, J.P., M.I.E.E.
Duncan Watson was born on 11 January 1873 in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the tenth of the eleven children of Joseph Watson (1831-1905) and Margaret Paton Watson née Connell (1833-1919). His t...
Person, Community / Clubs, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Scotland
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
St Pancras Station
From the picture source website: "St Pancras train station was designed by William Barlow in 1863, with construction commencing in 1866. The famous Barlow train shed arch spans 240 feet and is over...
1 memorial
Robert Bosch
German industrialist, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of the multinational engineering and technology company Bosch. In 1898 Bosch partnered with Frederick Simms, a Hamburg-born Briti...
1 memorial
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