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