Built to control the water level in the former Surrey Docks.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Lavender Pumphouse
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Lavender Pumphouse
Lavender Pumphouse This was constructed by the Port of London Authority in 19...
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St Pancras Station
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John Rennie, the elder
Engineer. Born Scotland. In 1791 he moved to London and set up his own business mainly building canals, bridges, docks and harbours. In London his works included: Albion Mills, Waterloo Bridge, Sou...
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Eaton Hodgkinson
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Kingschoole sluice
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Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery
There was a gun-manufacturing foundry at Windmill Hill, now Tabernacle Street EC2, until an explosion in 1716. Captured French guns were being melted and the liquid metal was poured into moulds whi...
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