Place    From 1835 

Finchley Road

Categories: Engineering, Transport

Place

This highway was constructed in 1835 as an alternative by-pass route to the old road from London to the north, which took the gruelling haul up through the congested streets of Hampstead.

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Finchley Road

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The North Star

The North Star, 104 Finchley Road. The North Star was built in 1850 as one of...

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Sir Proby Cautley

Sir Proby Cautley

Civil engineer and palaeontologist. FRS.  Born Suffolk.  Proby was his mother's maiden name.  1819 went to India as a commissioned second lieutenant.  Apart from a few years his work there was main...

Person, Engineering, History, India

1 memorial
Thomas Horn

Thomas Horn

Chairman of the Westminster Joint Works and Sanitary Committee in 1893. He is referenced in Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John...

Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Charles Parsons

Sir Charles Parsons

Scientist and engineer. Designed marine turbines. Born 13 Connaught Place, Hyde Park into an aristocratic family. Died on board the liner The Duchess of Richmond, after taking ill in Jamaica.

Person, Engineering, Science

1 memorial
John Peake Knight

John Peake Knight

Inventor of the world's first traffic lights. Engineer and railway manager from Nottingham.

Person, Engineering

1 memorial
J. & E. Hall, Dartford

J. & E. Hall, Dartford

From Dartford Archive: "In the early days the company specialised in heavy foundry-based engineering. Later on, the company developed a specialisation in refrigeration engineering." We wondered wh...

Group, Craft / Design, Engineering

1 memorial

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Faranak

Faranak

Artist based in Lambeth, active c.2018.

Person, Art

17 memorials
Harold Glass
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
A. Cheesman
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
George Z. Kaloghirou
1 memorial
Putney Town Rowing Club

Putney Town Rowing Club

Formed at the Half Moon Hotel in Putney. In 1929 it moved to the small boathouse underneath the Dukes Head Hotel, Putney, which remained its headquarters until 1986 when it moved to an empty boatho...

Group, Sport / Games

1 memorial