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Top Pioneer-related places to visit in London.

The celebration of a pioneer, those who yearned for discovery, and those who remain an inspiration.

TOP 10 PIONEER RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:

1. Fleming Museum & Penicillin	2. The Freud's Lived Here	3. Richard Branson Lived here	4. Piers Morgan's Pub	5. Bobby Moore lived here
6. Former St Mary's School	7. The discovery of Penicillin	8. St Mary's Hospital	9. A Spy called The White Rabbit	10. The Rainbow Coffee House

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11. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
12. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
13. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
14. A Fitzroy Blue Plaque @ 29 Fitzroy Square
15. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
16. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
17. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
18. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
19. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
20. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
21. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
22. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
23. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
24. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
25. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
26. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
27. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
28. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
29. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
30. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
31. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
32. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
33. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
34. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
35. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
36. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
37. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
38. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
39. Coldplay Ancestor's Summer Time @ The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Broml
40. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
41. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
42. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
43. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
44. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
45. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
46. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
47. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
48. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
49. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
50. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
51. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
52. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
53. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
54. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
55. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
56. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
57. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
58. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
59. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
60. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
61. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
62. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
63. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
64. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
65. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
66. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street
67. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
68. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
69. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
70. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
71. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
72. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
73. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
74. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
75. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
76. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
77. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
78. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
79. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
80. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
81. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
82. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
83. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
84. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
85. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
86. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
87. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
88. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
89. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
90. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham

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