Top Industry-related places to visit in London.
The wheels of industry have changed a lot in London since the industrial revolution, here are a bunch of locations that immortalised industry and business in the capital.
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11. Billingsgate Fish Market @ Trafalgar Way, London
12. Matchmakers Wharf @ Lee Conservancy Road, Homerton Road, Hackney
13. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
14. Explosive Dryads' Hall @ Woodbury Hill, Loughton, Essex
15. Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum @ 10 South Access Road, Walthamstow
16. Tom Bata's Shoe Factory @ East Tilbury
17. Thames Ironworks @ Bow Creek, Canning Town
18. God's Own Junkyard @ Unit 12, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall
19. Heathrow the Hamlet @ Croydon Road, Hillingdon
20. Fishmonger's Hall @ London Bridge, London
21. Whitechapel Bell Foundry @ 34 Whitechapel Road, London
22. Black Cat & Greater London House @ Hampstead Road London
23. The Apprentice Pad @ Candahar Road, Battersea
24. Wapping Food Power Station @ Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall
25. A Huguenot Silk Weaver's Home @ 19 Princelet Street, London
26. Brunel's The Engineer @ 65 Gloucester Avenue, London
27. Ronan Point Collapse @ Clever Road, Canning Town, London
28. Ford plant in Dagenham @ Kent Avenue, Dagenham, Essex
29. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
30. The Crystal Palace @ Hyde Park
31. Markfield Beam Engine Museum @ Markfield Road, Tottenham, London
32. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
33. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
34. The Imperial Hotel @ 61-66 Russell Square, Bloomsbury
35. World's 1st Business Computer @ Kaevener House, Hammersmith Road
36. The Time Ball @ Flamsteed House, Greenwich
37. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
38. William Morris' Birthplace @ Elm House, 341/343 Forest Road, Walthamstow
39. Plimsoll and Whitehall Garden @ Victoria Embankment, Westminster
40. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
41. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
42. Carpenters Hall @ 1 Throgmorton Avenue, London Wall
43. Thomas Crapper was here @ 120 King's Road, Chelsea
44. Leavesden Warner Bros Studios @ Essex Lane, Leavesden, Watford
45. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
46. Ealing's Shoelace Inventor @ 17 Cantley Road, Ealing, London
47. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
48. The Yorkshire Stingo @ Chapel Street, Marylebone, London
49. Inventor James Wimshursts Home @ 7 Crescent Grove, Clapham Common
50. Morden Hall Park @ Morden Hall Road, Morden
51. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
52. Napiers Rolls Royce made here @ The Vale, Acton Vale
53. Queen Victoria's Silk Weaver @ Howard House, 14 Fournier Street, Spitalfields
54. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
55. London Museum of Water & Steam @ Green Dragon Lane, Brentford
56. Splendid Heath Hall @ 59 The Bishops Avenue, Barnet
57. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
58. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
59. The Hop Exchange @ 24 Southwark Street, Bankside
60. London's Capital Records @ One Kemble Street
61. London Glassblowing Company @ 66-66 Bermondsey Street
62. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
63. The Silvertown Explosion @ North Woolwich Road, London
64. Birthplace of Charles Rolls @ 35 Hill Street, Mayfair, London
65. Fairfield Works: Strike a Light! @ Fairfield Road, Bow
66. Millennium Mills @ Mill Road, West Silvertown
67. Home of WB Adams railway pioneer @ 9 Woodbury Hill, Loughton, Essex
68. Tetley's Home of Tea @ 25 Cullum Street, Fenchurch Street
69. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
70. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
71. The Grunwick Dispute @ Chapter Road, Willesden
72. The Trebor Factory @ Katherine Road, Forest Gate
73. Lockwood Reservoirs Archaeology @ Lea Valley
pinpointing the forgotten and lost history of London
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