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. Sir Richard Burtons Bedouin Tomb @ St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, 61 Worple Way, Mor
12. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
13. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
14. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
15. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
16. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
17. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
18. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
19. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
20. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
21. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
22. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
23. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
24. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
25. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
26. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
27. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
28. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
29. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
30. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
31. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
32. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
33. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
34. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
35. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
36. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
37. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
38. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
39. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
40. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
41. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
42. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
43. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
44. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
45. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
46. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
47. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
48. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
49. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
50. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
51. A Spy called The White Rabbit @ Queen Court, Guildford Street, Camden
52. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
53. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
54. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
55. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
56. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
57. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
58. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
59. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
60. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
61. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
62. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
63. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
64. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
65. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
66. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
67. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
68. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
69. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
70. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
71. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
72. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
73. Blind pioneer Gilbert's house @ 5 Stanhope Place, Hyde Park
74. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
75. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
76. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
77. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
78. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
79. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
80. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
81. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney
82. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
83. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
84. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
85. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
86. Former St Mary's School @ Comunity Center, Walthamstow Village
87. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
88. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
89. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
90. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
91. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
92. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
93. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
94. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
95. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
96. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
97. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
98. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
99. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
100. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
101. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
102. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
103. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
104. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
105. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
106. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
107. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
108. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
109. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
110. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury