Boiler House, this building was originally used as a boiler house during the construction of Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames tunnel between 1825 and 1843. It has since had many alterations and changes of use. It was restored in 1979.
SE16, Tunnel Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Thames Tunnel Boiler House
Built to provide steam for the pumping engines needed to keep the Thames Tunn...
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...
Not only did Collins live here but he and his two sons developed the area as the Rookfield Garden Village. This plaque is very difficult...
{Beneath a Maltese cross:} Hern or Hurn Cross Near here once stood one of the four manorial boundary crosses of old Croydon. The other cr...
Near this place on July 29th 1921 George Lansbury led the people and councillors of Poplar on their march to the high court for the equal...
The piers on either side of the path look like gate-posts but there's no evidence of any gates ever having been attached. Each of the pie...
London county Council John Harrison, 1693 - 1776, inventor of the marine chronometer, lived and died in a house on this site.
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