Engineer with the Metropolitan Railway Company.
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W. Willox, MICE
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Baker Street Station
This plaque is somewhat reticent about its function which is to commemorate t...
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Lavender Pumphouse
Built to control the water level in the former Surrey Docks.
1 memorial
Short Brothers
Pioneering aeronautical engineers. Oswald and Eustace formed a partnership in 1897, initially working on balloons. They supplied Charles Rolls, amongst others. In 1908 Horace joined, the company wa...
2 memorials
Frederick George Creed
Inventor. Born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia. While working for the Central and South American Telegraph and Cable Company he became tired of using hand-operated machines to send messages. He came u...
1 memorial
Duffield sluice
This was part of the drainage system that kept the south bank free from flooding. The ground being very close to river level it was necessary to have a gate, or sluice-gate, across the drainage pip...
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
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