Born in Woodford, Essex His chief work was the Royal Courts of Justice (1868-81) in the Strand.
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George Edmund Street
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George Edmund Street
Greater London Council George Edmund Street, 1824 - 1881, architect, lived h...
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Frederick Atkinson Powell
Architect. Mayor of Lambeth 1905-6 and 1906-7. Died at home at 344 Kennington Road.
St Martin within Ludgate
The mediaeval church dates from 1174. Rebuilt in 1437 and then destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by Christopher Wren 1680.
Thomas Telford
Stonemason, architect and civil engineer. Born Eskdale, Dumfriesshire. Aged 12 left school to work for a local stonemason. Aged 25 rode on horseback to London. Built roads, bridges and canals. Neve...
Lieutenant Hugh Cecil Benson
Hugh Cecil Benson was born on 3 July 1883 in London at 16, Young Street, Kensington Square, the elder son of Cecil Foster Benson (1857-1934) and Constance Mary Benson née O'Neill.(1860-1935). His b...
Walter Gropius
Architect. Born Walter Adolph Georg Gropius in Berlin. He founded the Bauhaus school. His door handle designs are still being made today. At the rise of Hitler he and his wife Ilse moved to London ...
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Guildhall - Wren bust
EC2, Guildhall Yard, Guildhall
The arcade contains four modern busts, left to right: Pepys Cromwell Shakespeare Wren and a statue of Whittington to the left.
There but not there
NW6, Queen's Park
The south-east corner of this park is a fenced off formal garden, through which one can walk. We visited on the Saturday before Remembran...
Tachbrook - Kent
SW1, Bessborough Street
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
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