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. The Mary Seacole Statue @ Gardens of St Thomass Hospital
12. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
13. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
14. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
15. Coldplay Ancestor's Summer Time @ The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Broml
16. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
17. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
18. St Marys and the Mayflower @ 72A St Marychurch Street
19. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
20. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
21. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
22. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
23. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
24. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
25. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
26. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
27. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
28. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
29. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
30. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
31. Richard Branson Lived here @ 11 Holland Park, London
32. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
33. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
34. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
35. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
36. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
37. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
38. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
39. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
40. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
41. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
42. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
43. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
44. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
45. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
46. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
47. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
48. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
49. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
50. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
51. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
52. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
53. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
54. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
55. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
56. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
57. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
58. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
59. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
60. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
61. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
62. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
63. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
64. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
65. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
66. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
67. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
68. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
69. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
70. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
71. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
72. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
73. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
74. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
75. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
76. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
77. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
78. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
79. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
80. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
81. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
82. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
83. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
84. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
85. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
86. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
87. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
88. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
89. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
90. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
91. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
92. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
93. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
94. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
95. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
96. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
97. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
98. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
99. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
100. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
101. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
102. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
103. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
104. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
105. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
106. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
107. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
108. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
109. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
110. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury










