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. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
12. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
13. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
14. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
15. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
16. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
17. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
18. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
19. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
20. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
21. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
22. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
23. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
24. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
25. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
26. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
27. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
28. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
29. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
30. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
31. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
32. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
33. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
34. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
35. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
36. Coldplay Ancestor's Summer Time @ The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Broml
37. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
38. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
39. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
40. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
41. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
42. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
43. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
44. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
45. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
46. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
47. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
48. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
49. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
50. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
51. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
52. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
53. Stanley I Presume? @ 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall
54. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
55. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
56. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
57. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
58. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
59. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
60. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
61. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
62. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
63. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
64. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
65. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
66. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
67. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
68. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
69. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
70. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
71. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
72. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
73. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
74. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
75. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
76. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
77. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
78. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
79. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
80. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
81. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
82. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
83. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
84. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
85. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
86. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
87. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
88. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
89. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
90. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
91. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
92. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
93. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
94. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
95. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
96. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
97. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
98. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
99. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
100. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
101. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
102. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
103. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
104. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
105. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
106. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
107. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
108. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
109. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
110. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court