Civil engineer. Born Somerset. Worked on the early London underground lines and the Forth Bridge. Was an expert witness at the Tay Bridge disaster enquiry. Died at home in Pangbourne. Imperial College awards a "Sir Benjamin Baker Medal" each year, bestowed on the student with the longest, most luxuriant moustache (we wish).
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Benjamin Baker
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Benjamin Baker - W8
Sir Benjamin Baker, 1840 - 1907, civil engineer, designer of the Forth Bridge...
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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Sir Thomas Sopwith
Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Designed the Sopwith Camel. Aged 10 accidentally killed his father in a shooting accident. Expert ice skater and a legend in the yachting America's Cup. Born 92 C...
1 memorial
Edmund Nuttall Limited
Construction company with origins in the Netherlands.
1 memorial
Francis Fowke
Engineer and architect, and a Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers. Born Belfast. In 1862 he was made superintendent of construction of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Alber...
1 memorial
James W. Croxford
Surveyor, civil engineer, working with Brentford Council in 1909.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Ledley King - steel statue
E3, Mile End Park, By the towpath near Haverfield Road
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1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Bombs 7 July 2005
In the middle of the morning rush hour four bombs went off on three tube trains, at 8.50am and a bus, at 9.47am. 52 people died. Plaques commemorating the victims have been placed at each of the b...
12 memorials
Prince Metternich
SW1, Eaton Square, 44
Greater London Council Prince Metternich, 1773 - 1859, Austrian statesman, lived here in 1848.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
June Aylward
W11, Portobello Road, 115
The London Compendium gives 1950 as the year in which Aylward opened her shop, while Wikipedia reckons "antiques dealers arrived in the l...
1 subject commemorated
Kensington Library - Chaucer
W8, Philimore Walk, Kensington Central Library
The library, by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1960, is the building to the south, the left of our picture. The Library Time Machine mus...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator