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