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. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
12. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
13. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
14. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
15. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
16. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
17. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
18. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
19. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
20. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
21. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
22. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
23. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
24. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
25. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
26. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
27. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
28. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
29. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
30. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
31. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
32. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
33. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
34. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
35. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
36. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
37. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
38. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
39. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
40. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
41. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
42. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
43. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
44. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
45. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
46. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
47. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
48. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
49. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
50. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
51. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
52. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
53. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
54. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
55. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
56. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
57. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
58. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
59. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
60. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
61. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
62. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
63. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
64. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
65. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
66. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
67. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
68. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
69. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
70. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
71. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
72. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
73. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
74. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
75. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
76. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
77. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
78. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
79. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
80. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
81. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
82. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
83. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
84. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
85. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
86. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
87. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
88. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
89. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
90. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
91. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
92. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
93. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
94. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
95. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
96. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
97. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
98. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
99. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
100. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
101. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
102. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
103. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
104. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
105. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
106. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
107. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
108. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
109. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
110. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair