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. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
12. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
13. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
14. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
15. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
16. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
17. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
18. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
19. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
20. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
21. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
22. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
23. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
24. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
25. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
26. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
27. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
28. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
29. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
30. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
31. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
32. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
33. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
34. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
35. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
36. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
37. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
38. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
39. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
40. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
41. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
42. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
43. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
44. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
45. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
46. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
47. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
48. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
49. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
50. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
51. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
52. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
53. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
54. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
55. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
56. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
57. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
58. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
59. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
60. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
61. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
62. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
63. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
64. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
65. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
66. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
67. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
68. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
69. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
70. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
71. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
72. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
73. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
74. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
75. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
76. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
77. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
78. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
79. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
80. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
81. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
82. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
83. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
84. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
85. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
86. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
87. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
88. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
89. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
90. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
91. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
92. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
93. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
94. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
95. Stanley I Presume? @ 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall
96. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
97. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
98. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
99. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
100. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
101. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
102. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
103. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
104. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
105. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
106. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
107. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
108. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
109. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
110. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park