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. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
12. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
13. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
14. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
15. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
16. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
17. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
18. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
19. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
20. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
21. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
22. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
23. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
24. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
25. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
26. Piers Morgan's Pub @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
27. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
28. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
29. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
30. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
31. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
32. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
33. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
34. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
35. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
36. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
37. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
38. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
39. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
40. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
41. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
42. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
43. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
44. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
45. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
46. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
47. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
48. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
49. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
50. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
51. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
52. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
53. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
54. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
55. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
56. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
57. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
58. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
59. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
60. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
61. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
62. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
63. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
64. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
65. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
66. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
67. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
68. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
69. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
70. Stanley I Presume? @ 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall
71. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
72. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
73. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
74. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
75. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
76. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
77. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
78. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
79. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
80. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
81. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
82. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
83. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
84. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
85. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
86. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
87. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
88. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
89. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
90. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
91. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
92. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
93. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green
94. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
95. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
96. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
97. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
98. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
99. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
100. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
101. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
102. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
103. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
104. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
105. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
106. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
107. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
108. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
109. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
110. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham