Stonemason, architect and civil engineer. Born Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. Aged 12 left school to work for a local stonemason. Aged 25 rode on horseback to London. Built roads, bridges and canals. Never married and spent his live travelling from one project to another. An early nick-name was "Laughing Tam"; his admirer Robert Southey called him "Colossus of Roads". Telford New Town is named after him. Died at home at 24 Abingdon Street. The first engineer to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Thomas Telford
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Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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Percy Smart
Borough Engineer of Southwark Council in 1936. He designed the Walworth Clinic so we have classified him as an architect, though we can't find any more of his work.
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Lewis Cubitt
Architect. Younger brother of Thomas. Designed King's Cross station, the Great Northern Hotel and the granary building just to the north in the King’s Cross railway lands, all now restored. The...
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John & Ruth Howard Charitable Trust
The Trust will consider giving grants for the preservation of buildings of historic or architectural interest anywhere in England (but not Wales), with a preference for the Greater London area (not...
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