Group    From 1973 

Thames Water

Categories: Engineering, Food & Drink

When this authority was formed it took over responsibility for water supply from a number of other bodies including the Metropolitan Water Board.

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Thames Water

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Enfield Millennium Fountain

The Millennium Fountain by Wendy Taylor CBE. Unveiled by the Worshipful the M...

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New River Head windmill

The Round House Remains of the windmill used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water from...

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Whitechapel fatberg

We wonder what the various shapes on the plaque represent? Nappy wipes and ot...

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William Glanville

William Glanville

Engineering research. FRS.  Born 75 Kempe Road, Willesden.  Carried out research on concrete at first the Building Research Station and then the Road Research Laboratory.  During WW2 he was scienti...

Person, Engineering, Science

1 memorial
Duffield sluice

Duffield sluice

This was part of the drainage system that kept the south bank free from flooding. The ground being very close to river level it was necessary to have a gate, or sluice-gate, across the drainage pip...

Place, Engineering

1 memorial
Sir Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph Bazalgette

Civil engineer. Born in Enfield.  As chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works he created the London main drainage system and the Embankment.  Great-great grandfather of Sir Peter, the tele...

Person, Engineering

7 memorials
Holborn Conduit

Holborn Conduit

Built on a tributary of the River Fleet to bring clean water to London. Its precise location is not clear, but one source places it at what is now the junction of Snow Hill, Cock Lane and Smithfiel...

Building, Engineering

1 memorial
Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds

Professor of engineering.  FRS.  Born Belfast.  Aged 25 he was appointed professor of engineering (one of the first to be appointed to such a post in the UK) in Owens College, Manchester.  He remai...

Person, Education, Engineering, Ireland

1 memorial