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. The Mary Seacole Statue @ Gardens of St Thomass Hospital
12. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
13. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
14. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
15. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
16. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
17. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
18. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
19. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
20. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
21. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
22. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
23. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
24. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
25. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
26. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
27. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
28. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
29. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
30. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
31. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
32. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
33. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
34. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
35. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
36. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
37. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
38. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
39. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
40. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
41. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
42. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
43. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
44. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
45. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
46. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
47. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
48. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
49. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
50. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
51. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
52. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
53. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
54. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
55. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
56. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
57. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
58. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
59. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
60. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
61. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
62. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
63. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
64. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
65. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
66. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
67. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
68. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
69. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
70. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
71. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
72. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
73. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
74. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
75. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
76. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
77. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
78. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
79. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
80. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
81. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
82. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
83. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
84. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
85. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
86. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
87. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
88. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
89. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
90. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
91. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
92. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
93. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
94. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
95. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
96. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
97. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
98. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
99. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
100. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
101. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
102. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
103. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
104. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
105. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
106. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
107. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
108. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
109. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
110. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster