Pioneer Top Pioneer-related places to visit 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.

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11. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
12. The Mary Seacole Statue @ Gardens of St Thomass Hospital
13. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
14. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
15. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
16. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
17. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
18. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
19. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
20. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
21. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
22. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
23. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
24. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
25. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
26. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
27. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
28. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
29. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
30. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
31. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
32. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
33. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
34. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
35. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
36. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
37. St Marys and the Mayflower @ 72A St Marychurch Street
38. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
39. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
40. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
41. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
42. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
43. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
44. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
45. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
46. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
47. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
48. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
49. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
50. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
51. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
52. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
53. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
54. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
55. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
56. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
57. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
58. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
59. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
60. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
61. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
62. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
63. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
64. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
65. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
66. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
67. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
68. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
69. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
70. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
71. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
72. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
73. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
74. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
75. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
76. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
77. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
78. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
79. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
80. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
81. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
82. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
83. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
84. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
85. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
86. Stanley I Presume? @ 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall
87. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
88. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
89. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
90. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
91. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
92. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
93. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
94. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
95. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
96. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
97. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
98. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
99. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
100. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
101. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
102. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
103. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
104. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
105. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
106. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
107. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
108. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
109. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
110. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London