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Widening of Long Acre

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Widening of Long Acre

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Widening Long Acre

Eight feet of ground from the stone of this house were given by the Mercers' ...

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South End Road bridge reconstruction

South End Road bridge reconstruction

Reconstructed & widened in 1969 replacing a 28 ft. wide cast iron bridge built in 1864.

Event, Engineering, Transport

1 memorial
Croydon atmospheric railway

Croydon atmospheric railway

An experiment by the London and Croydon Railway. Pumping stations were built which created a vacuum in a pipe laid between the rails. Each carriage had a piston that entered a slot in the tube, sea...

Place, Transport

2 memorials
Eastern Counties Railway

Eastern Counties Railway

Railway line, originally intended to link London with Ipswich via Colchester and then onwards to Norwich and Yarmouth. Construction began in 1837 but was beset by engineering and other problems, an...

Group, Transport

1 memorial
Tyburn Turnpike House

Tyburn Turnpike House

This toll gate is thought to have stood about where Marble Arch now stands.

Building, Commerce, Property, Transport

1 memorial

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Isabella I of Castile

Isabella I of Castile

Queen of Castile and León. Married to Ferdinand. Together they financed Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage. Their daughter Catherine was Henry VIII's first wife.  Their grandson (not Catherine's ch...

Person, Royalty, Spain

1 memorial
John Rennie, the elder

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...

Person, Engineering, Scotland

6 memorials
Campaign for Real Ale

Campaign for Real Ale

An independent consumer organisation based in St Albans, and known as CAMRA. Founded in Kruger's bar in Dunquin, Kerry, Ireland, by a group who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer a...

Group, Food & Drink, Ireland

2 memorials
Katherine Mackay Low

Katherine Mackay Low

SW11, Battersea High Street, 108

These two plaques tell a complex story which we only fully understood once we found this UCL paper. Erskine Clarke, vicar of St Mary's Ch...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Nicole Maree Harrison

Nicole Maree Harrison

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial