Engineers active in 1897.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas & Taylor
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St Pancras Way bridge - foundation stone
This, the foundation stone for the bridge, was laid in March 1897 and less th...
St Pancras Way bridge - opened
Vestry of St. Pancras This bridge was opened on Thursday, 22nd July 1897 by ...
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John Kemp Starley
Inventor and industrialist, who sold the first recognizably modern bicycle. Starley went into business with William Sutton, with the intention of producing bicycles that were safe and easy to use. ...
1 memorial
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
John Compton
Organ builder. Born in Newton Burgoland, Leicestershire. He set up business in Nottingham and moved to London, eventually establishing a factory in North Acton. Many Compton organs were installed i...
1 memorial
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
Sir Henry Bessemer
Engineer known for inventing the Bessemer process for producing steel. Born Charlton, Hertfordshire. Moved to London aged 17. From 1833 he lived at 15 Northampton Square, the EC1 site now occupied ...
2 memorials
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