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. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
12. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
13. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
14. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
15. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
16. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
17. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
18. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
19. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
20. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
21. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
22. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
23. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
24. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
25. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
26. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
27. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
28. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
29. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
30. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
31. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
32. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
33. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
34. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
35. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
36. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
37. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
38. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
39. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
40. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
41. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
42. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
43. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
44. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
45. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
46. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
47. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
48. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
49. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
50. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
51. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
52. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
53. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
54. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
55. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
56. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
57. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
58. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
59. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
60. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
61. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
62. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
63. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
64. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
65. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
66. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
67. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
68. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
69. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
70. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
71. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
72. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
73. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
74. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
75. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
76. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
77. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
78. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
79. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
80. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
81. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
82. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
83. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
84. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
85. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
86. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
87. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
88. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
89. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
90. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
91. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
92. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
93. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
94. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
95. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
96. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
97. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
98. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
99. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
100. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
101. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
102. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
103. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
104. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
105. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
106. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
107. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
108. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
109. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
110. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair