Person    | Male  Born 26/3/1839  Died 18/5/1917

Alexander Binnie

Categories: Engineering

Countries: India, Wales

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

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Greenwich Foot Tunnel - south

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Skempton Building plaques

2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...

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St Pancras Station

St Pancras Station

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Sir Nigel Gresley

Sir Nigel Gresley

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2 memorials
Thomas Tredgold

Thomas Tredgold

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Edward Willis

Edward Willis

From Historic England: Engineer and architect to the Chiswick Urban District Council in 1921. Also designed the Memorial Fund's Chiswick War Memorial Rest Homes, Burlington Lane. Housing disabled s...

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William Henry Barlow

William Henry Barlow

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Young Womens Christian Association

Young Womens Christian Association

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1 memorial