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