Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the construction of Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames tunnel between 1825 and 1843. It has since had many alterations and changes of use. It was restored in 1979.
SE16, Tunnel Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thames Tunnel Boiler House
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunn...
Civil Engineer, born Hacqueville, Normandy, France. Educated in France, but f...
The first tunnel in the world under a navigable river. Built between 1825 and...
The plaque is in the dimly lit museum of Greenwich Heritage Centre.
These flats were completed in 1906 and Zimmern was one of the first residents to move in.
The small building was built as the coach-house to number 26. The Ronalds and Hammersmith Socialists plaques are on the small building (w...
Westminster City Council Savoy Theatre Opened in 1881, the Savoy Theatre was the first public building in the world to be lit throughou...
Legendary Shepherd's Bush rock band, The Who, performed here at the site of the Goldhawk Social Club at the start of their career. The He...
Dr Krawiec was killed by a left-turning HGV at the junction with Theobald’s Road and Southampton Row. She was aged 41 and worked as a paediatrician and and allergy expert at a clinic in Clapham and...
Friends of Russell Square Newsletter no 1 contains a lovely story about Philip Feril Renault Saillard (1839-1916) who lived in this house...
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
We normally rotate our memorial pictures as necessary to make sure the statues are standing upright and the plaques can be read without f...
Much of the street research for LondonRemembers is done by bike. 820 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in 2009 on roads in Britain. Many of these deaths are avoidable. Many of the drivers o...
