pioneer Top Pioneer-related places to visit in London.

Top Pioneer-related places to visit in London.


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

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11. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
12. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
13. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
14. St Marys and the Mayflower @ 72A St Marychurch Street
15. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
16. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
17. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
18. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
19. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
20. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
21. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
22. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
23. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
24. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
25. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
26. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
27. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
28. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
29. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
30. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
31. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
32. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
33. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
34. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
35. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
36. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
37. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
38. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
39. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
40. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
41. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
42. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
43. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
44. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
45. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
46. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
47. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
48. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
49. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
50. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
51. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
52. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
53. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
54. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
55. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
56. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
57. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
58. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
59. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
60. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
61. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
62. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
63. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
64. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
65. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
66. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
67. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
68. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
69. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
70. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
71. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
72. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
73. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
74. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
75. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
76. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
77. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
78. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
79. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
80. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
81. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
82. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
83. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
84. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
85. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
86. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
87. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
88. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
89. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
90. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
91. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
92. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
93. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
94. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
95. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
96. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
97. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
98. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
99. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
100. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
101. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
102. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
103. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
104. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
105. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
106. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
107. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
108. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
109. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
110. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith