Civil engineer. Born 77 Ladbroke Grove. Worked in Wales and then India. Returned and in 1890 was appointed chief engineer to the London County Council. Worked on the Blackwall road tunnel, the Greenwich foot tunnel and the Barking road bridge over the River Lea. 1892, married with children, he returned to live at his birth-place but died on holiday in Devon.
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Alexander Binnie
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Greenwich Foot Tunnel - north
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the south bank ...
Greenwich Foot Tunnel - south
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the north bank ...
Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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William Young Moyes
Senior 6th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar...
1 memorial
Sir Charles Parsons
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1 memorial
Tommy Tucker
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1 memorial
Robert Harrild
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2 memorials
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Lilian Faithfull
English teacher, headmistress, women's rights advocate, magistrate, social worker and humanitarian. Born Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, she graduated with a first in English at Oxford University in 188...
1 memorial
James W. Croxford
Surveyor, civil engineer, working with Brentford Council in 1909.
1 memorial
E. A. Roome & Co Ltd
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1 memorial
Andrew Gifford, DD
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1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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