1854 - 1931
This library is dedicated to Sir Charles Parsons, scientist and engineer who in the XIX century invented and perfected the compound steam turbine.
The memory of the great is enshrined in books.
WC1, Guilford Street, London House
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Parsons Library
Scientist and engineer. Designed marine turbines. Born 13 Connaught Place, H...
The Latin translates as "Work with all your might" and we think this may have been Archbishop Amigo's adopted motto.
The Hackney Central Library was opened in 1908. It shut in the 1990s and in 1999 a new library opened in Town Hall Square, on the other ...
We counted 5 memorials on the outside of this building: the relief showing Tyburn martyrs at attic level; the Gunne plaque at eye level o...
He lived at what was number 19 Warwick Crescent.
This way was called Fountain Court until 1883 from the Fountain Tavern which stood on this site.
Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
The words come from a very dull modern plaque attached to the railings. London Uncovered gives: "A four-faced drum clock by Thwaites &am...
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