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Top Industry-related places to visit in London.

The wheels of industry have changed a lot in London since the industrial revolution, here are a bunch of locations that immortalised industry and business in the capital.

TOP 10 INDUSTRY RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:

1. Peek Frean's Biscuit Factory	2. Ronan Point Collapse	3. The Oldest Bank in London	4. Ford plant in Dagenham	5. Wapping Food Power Station
6. The Silvertown Explosion	7. A Huguenot Silk Weaver's Home	8. Tom Bata's Shoe Factory	9. First Plastic Invented Here	10. Billingsgate Fish Market

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11. Black Cat & Greater London House @ Hampstead Road London
12. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
13. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
14. William Morris' Birthplace @ Elm House, 341/343 Forest Road, Walthamstow
15. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
16. Fishmonger's Hall @ London Bridge, London
17. Leavesden Warner Bros Studios @ Essex Lane, Leavesden, Watford
18. Beckton Gasworks: FMJ @ Royal Docks Road, East Ham, London
19. Ealing's Shoelace Inventor @ 17 Cantley Road, Ealing, London
20. Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum @ 10 South Access Road, Walthamstow
21. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
22. Colour Mauve invented here @ Cable Street, London
23. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
24. The Hoover Building @ Perivale, Middlesex
25. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
26. World's 1st Business Computer @ Kaevener House, Hammersmith Road
27. Explosive Dryads' Hall @ Woodbury Hill, Loughton, Essex
28. Fairfield Works: Strike a Light! @ Fairfield Road, Bow
29. Brunel's The Engineer @ 65 Gloucester Avenue, London
30. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
31. The Apprentice Pad @ Candahar Road, Battersea
32. Matchmakers Wharf @ Lee Conservancy Road, Homerton Road, Hackney
33. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
34. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
35. London's Capital Records @ One Kemble Street
36. Thames Ironworks @ Bow Creek, Canning Town
37. Whitechapel Bell Foundry @ 34 Whitechapel Road, London
38. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
39. Birthplace of Charles Rolls @ 35 Hill Street, Mayfair, London
40. The Ivory House @ St Katherines Dock, Tower Hamlets, London
41. Crystal Palace Transmitter @ off Crystal Palace Parade
42. The Yorkshire Stingo @ Chapel Street, Marylebone, London
43. Markfield Beam Engine Museum @ Markfield Road, Tottenham, London
44. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
45. The Crystal Palace @ Hyde Park
46. Lockwood Reservoir's Archaeology @ Lea Valley
47. Laura Ashley lived here @ 83 Cambridge Street, Westminster, London
48. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
49. London Glassblowing Company @ 66-66 Bermondsey Street
50. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
51. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
52. The Time Ball @ Flamsteed House, Greenwich
53. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
54. Heathrow the Hamlet @ Croydon Road, Hillingdon
55. Home of WB Adams railway pioneer @ 9 Woodbury Hill, Loughton, Essex

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