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.
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11. Laura Ashley lived here @ 83 Cambridge Street, Westminster, London
12. Black Cat & Greater London House @ Hampstead Road London
13. Ford plant in Dagenham @ Kent Avenue, Dagenham, Essex
14. Fishmonger's Hall @ London Bridge, London
15. Beckton Gasworks: FMJ @ Royal Docks Road, East Ham, London
16. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
17. Wapping Food Power Station @ Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall
18. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
19. A Huguenot Silk Weaver's Home @ 19 Princelet Street, London
20. The Silvertown Explosion @ North Woolwich Road, London
21. Explosive Dryads' Hall @ Woodbury Hill, Loughton, Essex
22. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
23. God's Own Junkyard @ Unit 12, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall
24. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
25. Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum @ 10 South Access Road, Walthamstow
26. Crystal Palace Transmitter @ off Crystal Palace Parade
27. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
28. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
29. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
30. Heathrow the Hamlet @ Croydon Road, Hillingdon
31. The Apprentice Pad @ Candahar Road, Battersea
32. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
33. Splendid Heath Hall @ 59 The Bishops Avenue, Barnet
34. London's Capital Records @ One Kemble Street
35. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
36. Thomas Crapper was here @ 120 King's Road, Chelsea
37. The Crystal Palace @ Hyde Park
38. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
39. Whitechapel Bell Foundry @ 34 Whitechapel Road, London
40. World's 1st Business Computer @ Kaevener House, Hammersmith Road
41. Billingsgate Fish Market @ Trafalgar Way, London
42. Thames Ironworks @ Bow Creek, Canning Town
43. Leavesden Warner Bros Studios @ Essex Lane, Leavesden, Watford
44. Brunel's The Engineer @ 65 Gloucester Avenue, London
45. Birthplace of Charles Rolls @ 35 Hill Street, Mayfair, London
46. Inventor James Wimshursts Home @ 7 Crescent Grove, Clapham Common
47. Ealing's Shoelace Inventor @ 17 Cantley Road, Ealing, London
48. The Yorkshire Stingo @ Chapel Street, Marylebone, London
49. Lockwood Reservoirs Archaeology @ Lea Valley
50. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
51. Markfield Beam Engine Museum @ Markfield Road, Tottenham, London
52. Queen Victoria's Silk Weaver @ Howard House, 14 Fournier Street, Spitalfields
53. The Grunwick Dispute @ Chapter Road, Willesden
54. The Time Ball @ Flamsteed House, Greenwich
55. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
56. William Morris' Birthplace @ Elm House, 341/343 Forest Road, Walthamstow
57. London Museum of Water & Steam @ Green Dragon Lane, Brentford
58. Home of WB Adams railway pioneer @ 9 Woodbury Hill, Loughton, Essex
59. Plimsoll and Whitehall Garden @ Victoria Embankment, Westminster
60. Fairfield Works: Strike a Light! @ Fairfield Road, Bow
61. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
62. Napiers Rolls Royce made here @ The Vale, Acton Vale
63. Morden Hall Park @ Morden Hall Road, Morden
64. Carpenters Hall @ 1 Throgmorton Avenue, London Wall
65. The Imperial Hotel @ 61-66 Russell Square, Bloomsbury
66. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
67. The Hop Exchange @ 24 Southwark Street, Bankside
68. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
69. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
70. London Glassblowing Company @ 66-66 Bermondsey Street
71. Tetley's Home of Tea @ 25 Cullum Street, Fenchurch Street
72. Millennium Mills @ Mill Road, West Silvertown
73. The Trebor Factory @ Katherine Road, Forest Gate
pinpointing the forgotten and lost history of London
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