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. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
12. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
13. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
14. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
15. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
16. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
17. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
18. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
19. The Pembroke @ 86 Earls Court Rd, Kensington
20. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
21. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
22. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
23. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
24. Fleming Museum & Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London
25. St Barnabas Preaching Riots @ St Barnabas Street, Pimlico
26. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
27. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
28. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
29. St Marys and the Mayflower @ 72A St Marychurch Street
30. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
31. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
32. Joseph Banks lived here @ 32 Soho Square, London
33. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
34. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
35. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
36. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
37. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
38. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
39. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
40. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
41. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
42. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
43. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
44. The Mary Seacole Statue @ Gardens of St Thomass Hospital
45. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
46. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
47. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
48. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
49. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
50. Stockwell Bus Garage @ Lansdowne Road, Stockwell
51. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
52. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
53. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
54. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
55. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
56. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
57. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
58. Joseph Priestley lived here @ 113 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney
59. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
60. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
61. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
62. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
63. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
64. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
65. Gideon Mantells Surgery @ 28 Clapham Common South Side, Clapham
66. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
67. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
68. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
69. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
70. Mary Seacoles House @ 14 Soho Square, Soho
71. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
72. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
73. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
74. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
75. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
76. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
77. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
78. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
79. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
80. Weston's Music Hall @ 242-5 High Holborn
81. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
82. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
83. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
84. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
85. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
86. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
87. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
88. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
89. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
90. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
91. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
92. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
93. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
94. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
95. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
96. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
97. Parachute Pioneer lived here @ Goldings, Clays Lane, Loughton
98. The 1st one way Street @ Albermarle Street
99. Millicent Fawcett Statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
100. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
101. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
102. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
103. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
104. Eadweard Muybridge lived here @ 30 High Street, Kingston upon Thames
105. Home to an Adventurer @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea
106. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
107. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
108. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
109. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
110. Doctor Barnardo @ 58 Solent House, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney










