Brunel's engine house
The tunnel shaft and pumping house for Marc Brunel's tunnel was constructed between 1825 and 1843. This was the first thoroughfare under a navigable river in the world.
{The image at the top is the London Docklands Development Corporation logo:}
SE16, Railway Avenue, Brunel Engine Museum
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Brunel's Engine House
The engine house was designed by Marc Brunel to be part of the infrastructure...
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...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Brunel's Engine House
We did not initially recognise this logo, on at least 8 plaques in the Surrey...
There is apparently another plaque to him nearby at 2 Palace Green, a house he had built for himself. This is now the Israeli Embassy, an...
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London County Council Robert Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 1830 - 1903, Prime Minister, lived here.
A trained architect, Ventris and his wife designed this house for themselves and their family.
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