This strange structure is an accumulator, basically a huge hot water tank, like you may have in your house somewhere in a nice warm cupbo...
Turnpike Lane is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground.
Built 1894. Love the solar panels.
The plaque is on a lower deck, above where the coffin would have been placed. Havengore carried the coffin from Tower Pier to Festival Pi...
Back in 2022 Matt Brown of Londonist kindly sent us 2 plaques he garnered while Open House visiting the MY Havengore. The yacht was comm...
Raleigh had died in the April preceding the laying of this stone.
In our photo the plaque can be seen on the red brick pier to the left of the advertising hoarding.
Prince George (later King George V) was made Duke of York in 1892 when he became second in line to the throne.
Sir Edward Frankland, 1825 - 1899, chemical scientist, lived here, 1870 - 1880. English Heritage
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