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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
21st November 1943 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III
21st November 1941 Born today: Juliet Mills, London England, actress (Nanny and the Professor, QB VII)
21st November 1934 Uiver returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
21st November 1781 Watercolour artist Cornelius Varley born in Hackney, East London.
21st November 1696 J Vanbrughes Relapse or Virtue in Danger, premieres 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.
TOP 10 PIONEER RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE PIONEER SIGHTS:
11. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
12. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
13. Piers Morgan's Pub @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
14. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
15. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
16. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
17. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
18. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
19. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
20. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
21. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
22. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
23. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
24. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
25. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
26. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
27. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
28. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
29. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
30. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
31. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
32. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
33. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
34. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
35. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
36. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
37. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
38. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
39. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
40. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
41. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
42. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
43. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
44. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
45. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
46. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
47. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
48. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
49. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
50. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
51. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
52. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
53. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
54. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
55. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
56. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
57. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
58. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
59. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
60. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
61. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
62. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
63. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
64. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
65. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
66. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
67. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
68. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
69. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
70. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
71. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
72. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
73. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
74. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
75. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
76. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
77. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
78. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
79. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
80. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
81. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
82. Coldplay Ancestor's Summer Time @ The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Broml
83. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
84. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
85. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
86. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
87. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
88. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
89. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
90. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
91. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
92. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
93. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
94. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
95. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
96. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
97. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
98. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
99. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
100. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
101. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
102. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
103. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
104. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
105. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
106. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
107. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
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