Engineer, specialising initially in carpentry and wood. Born near Durham.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Thomas Tredgold
Commemorated ati
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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Steve Hudson
Engineer and creator of the Dartford Remembered Facebook page.
Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners
Consulting engineering firm. Bruce and his brother Colin joined their father's firm in 1919 and 1923. John Wolfe Barry was already a partner. Bruce was knighted after WW2 and on the father's death ...
Sir John Wolfe-Barry
Civil Engineer. Born London, son of the architect Sir Charles Barry. His firm specialised in railways, bridges and docks. Built the Circle Line and, following the death of Horace Jones, Tower Bridg...
William Charles Copperthwaite
Engineer. 1906 Copperthwaite published "Tunnel shields and the use of compressed air in subaqueous works". 2021: We were kindly contacted by Christopher Nobbs (great-nephew of Copperthwaite) who w...
John Dixon
Civil Engineer from Newcastle. Freemason. His brother, Waynman, was an engineer and an Egyptologist so was used on the project to bring Cleopatra's Needle to London. There is a legend that Waynman ...

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