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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
21st September 1977 Rapper Doc Brown was born in Kilburn.
21st September 1906 Born today: Derrick De Marney, London England, actor (Inheritance)
21st September 1849 Born today: Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father and Son)
Top Pioneer-related places to visit in London.
The celebration of a pioneer, those who yearned for discovery, and those who remain an inspiration.
TOP 10 PIONEER RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE PIONEER SIGHTS:
11. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
12. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
13. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
14. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
15. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
16. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
17. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
18. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
19. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
20. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
21. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
22. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
23. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
24. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
25. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
26. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
27. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
28. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
29. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
30. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
31. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
32. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
33. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
34. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
35. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
36. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
37. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
38. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
39. Coldplay Ancestor's Summer Time @ The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Broml
40. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
41. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
42. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
43. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
44. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
45. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
46. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
47. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
48. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
49. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
50. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
51. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
52. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
53. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
54. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
55. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
56. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
57. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
58. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
59. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
60. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
61. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
62. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
63. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
64. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
65. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
66. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
67. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
68. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
69. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
70. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
71. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
72. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
73. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
74. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
75. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
76. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
77. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
78. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
79. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
80. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
81. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
82. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
83. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
84. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
85. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
86. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
87. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
88. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
89. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
90. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
91. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
92. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
93. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
94. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
95. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
96. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
97. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
98. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
99. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
100. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
101. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
102. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
103. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
104. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
105. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
106. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
107. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
