Top Pioneer-related places to visit in London.
The celebration of a pioneer, those who yearned for discovery, and those who remain an inspiration.
MORE PIONEER SIGHTS:
11. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
12. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
13. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
14. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
15. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
16. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
17. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
18. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
19. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
20. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
21. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
22. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
23. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
24. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
25. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
26. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
27. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
28. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
29. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
30. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
31. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
32. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
33. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
34. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
35. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
36. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
37. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
38. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
39. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
40. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
41. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
42. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
43. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
44. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
45. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
46. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
47. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
48. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
49. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
50. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
51. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
52. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
53. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
54. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
55. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
56. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
57. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
58. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
59. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
60. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
61. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
62. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
63. Coldplay Ancestor's Summer Time @ The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Broml
64. Stanley I Presume? @ 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall
65. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
66. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
67. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
68. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
69. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
70. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
71. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
72. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
73. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
74. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
75. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
76. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
77. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
78. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
79. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
80. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
81. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
82. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
83. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
84. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
85. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
86. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
87. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
88. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
89. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
90. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
91. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
92. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
93. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
94. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
95. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
96. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
97. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
98. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
99. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
100. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
101. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
102. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
103. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
104. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
105. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
106. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
107. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
108. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
109. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
110. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
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