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. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
12. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
13. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
14. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
15. First Lady of Fleet Street @ 7 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair
16. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
17. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
18. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
19. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
20. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
21. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
22. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
23. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
24. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
25. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
26. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
27. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
28. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
29. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
30. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
31. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
32. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
33. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
34. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
35. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
36. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
37. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
38. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
39. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
40. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
41. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
42. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
43. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
44. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
45. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
46. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
47. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
48. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
49. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
50. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
51. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
52. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
53. Stanley I Presume? @ 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall
54. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
55. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
56. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
57. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
58. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
59. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
60. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
61. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
62. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
63. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
64. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
65. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
66. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
67. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
68. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
69. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
70. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
71. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
72. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
73. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
74. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
75. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
76. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
77. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
78. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
79. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
80. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
81. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
82. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
83. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
84. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
85. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
86. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
87. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
88. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
89. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
90. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
91. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
92. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
93. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
94. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
95. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
96. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
97. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
98. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
99. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
100. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
101. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
102. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
103. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
104. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
105. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
106. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
107. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
108. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
109. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
110. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross