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. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
12. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
13. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
14. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
15. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
16. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
17. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
18. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
19. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
20. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
21. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
22. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
23. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
24. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
25. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
26. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
27. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
28. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
29. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
30. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
31. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
32. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
33. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
34. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
35. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
36. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
37. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
38. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
39. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
40. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
41. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
42. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
43. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
44. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
45. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
46. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
47. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
48. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
49. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
50. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
51. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
52. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
53. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
54. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
55. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
56. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
57. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
58. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
59. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
60. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
61. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
62. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
63. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
64. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
65. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
66. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
67. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
68. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
69. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
70. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
71. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
72. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
73. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
74. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
75. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
76. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
77. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
78. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
79. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
80. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
81. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
82. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
83. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
84. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
85. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
86. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
87. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
88. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
89. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
90. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
91. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
92. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
93. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
94. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
95. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
96. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
97. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
98. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
99. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
100. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
101. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
102. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
103. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
104. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
105. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
106. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
107. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
108. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
109. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
110. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town