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Stephen William Leigh

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Stephen William Leigh

Engineer at Teddington Lock, 1857.

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Teddington Lock - 1857

This plaque surely can't have been intended to be submerged? Did they accide...

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Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery

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Northern Outfall Sewer

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Teddington Lock - 1858

Teddington Lock - 1858

TW11, Teddington Lock

We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it exactly. Just shows that way back in 1858 even people in a po...

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Alice Zimmern

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