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. A Churchill Residence @ 12 Bolton Street, Piccadilly
12. Colour Mauve invented here @ 290 Cable Street, London
13. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
14. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
15. Spratt's Dog Food Factory @ Morris Road, Poplar
16. Dolby Labs founded here @ 590 Wandsworth Road, Clapham
17. Thomas Hodgkin lived here @ 35 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
18. Curse of Tutankhamun @ 19 Collingham Gardens, Kensington
19. Inventor of Holograms lived here @ 79 Queens Gate, Kensington, London
20. Lloyds Law Courts Pedal Power @ 222 Strand, London
21. Richard Branson born here @ Stonefield Nursing Home, 904 Sidcup Road, London
22. First female TT racer @ 54 Marlowe Road, Walthamstow
23. Bobby Moore lived here @ 4 Stradbroke Grove, Chigwell
24. Tompion and Graham Clockmakers @ 69 Fleet Street, London
25. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
26. St Mary's Hospital @ Praed Street, Paddington
27. London's First Bridge @ River Thames, Vauxhall
28. Explorer Stuart lived here @ 9 Campden Hill Square, London
29. The Harvard Chapel @ North Transept, Southwark Cathedral, London
30. The Freud's Lived Here @ Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens
31. First Plastic Invented Here @ Berkshire Road, Hackney Wick, London
32. The Assassination of Mr Thynne @ Pall Mall, London
33. Freemans Started Here @ 131-143 Clapham Road, Clapham
34. Edmund Halley's Tomb @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
35. Dick Whittington lived here. @ College Street
36. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
37. House of Abdus Salam @ 8 Campion Road, Putney
38. Robert Falcon Scott lived here @ 56 Oakley Street, Chelsea, London
39. The World's First Ever Cashpoint @ 20 The Town, Enfield
40. London's First Traffic Island @ St James Street, Piccadilly, London
41. Thomas Crapper Flush House @ 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley, London
42. Concorde man born here. @ 499 Hale End Road, Highams Park, London
43. Joseph-Rene Bellot's Obelisk @ Riverside Walk, Greenwich, London
44. Time was created here @ 119 High Holborn
45. Cartoonist Phil May lived here @ 20 Holland Park Road
46. It's For You-Who @ Burlington House, Piccadilly
47. Home of the Speaking Clock @ Flowers Close, Brook Road, Dollis Hill
48. Sam the Cat @ Queen Anne Square
49. The King of Scouting Lived here @ 9 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
50. The First Great Magician? @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, Belsize Park
51. Kathleen Lonsdale lived here @ 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings
52. Londons 1st Fish and Chip shop @ 78/80 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green
53. Andrex 2-ply invented here @ Paper Mill Place, St Andrews Road, Walthamstow
54. The Aeronaut of Holloway @ Highgate Cemetary East, Swain's Lane
55. Leyton-lad teaches Emperor @ 93 Trumpington Road, Leytonstone
56. John Harvards Home @ 105 Borough High Street, Southwark
57. Bouncing Bomb inventor's house @ 241 New Cross Road, New Cross
58. Wimbledon Wingfield lived here @ 33 St George's Square, Pimlico
59. The Scott Family Lodgings @ 80 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London
60. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
61. Ernest Shackleton lived here @ Aberdeen House, 12 Westwood Hill, Sydenham, Lond
62. Stuntman Blondins Niagara Villa @ Northfield Avenue, Northfields, London
63. Charles Darwin's Down House @ Luxted Road, Downe, Kent
64. Jigsaws were invented here @ Russell Street, Covent Garden, London
65. Mendelssohn Composed Here @ 168 Denmark Hill, Camberwell
66. William Tierney Clark lived here @ 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith
67. First Aborigine in Europe @ St John's Churchyard, Eltham
68. Gestetner's Former Home @ 124 Highbury New Park, Highbury
69. St Margarets and Captain Cook @ Abbey Road, Barking
70. Microphone Inventor lived Here @ 94 Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia
71. Artist William Etty lived here @ 14 Villiers Street, Charing Cross
72. Motoring pioneer lived here @ 16 Stafford Place
73. The shop of Ignatius Sancho @ 19 Charles Street, Mayfair
74. UK's First Female Doctor @ 20 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone
75. Edward Whymper's House @ 82 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
76. AV Roe's Flying Machine @ 47 West Hill, Wandsworth
77. Scientist Rosalind Franklin @ Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea
78. Susan Travers born here @ 35 Courtfield Gardens, Kensington
79. The Crafts - abolitionists @ 26 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith
80. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
81. Sopwith Camel maker lived here @ 46 Green Street, Mayfair
82. Safety champion Shaws house @ 94 Southwark Bridge Road, Borough
83. Hartley's Fireproof Obelisk @ Putney Heath, London
84. Thomas B Macaulay lived here @ 50 Great Ormond Street, London
85. Francis Galton Lived Here @ 42 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge
86. Clement Attlee's House @ 17 Monkham's Avenue, Woodford Green
87. The discovery of Penicillin @ St Mary's Hospital
88. The First Human Cannonball @ The Royal Aquarium, Tothill Street, Westminster
89. Nelson Mandela statue @ Parliament Square, Westminster
90. Captain James Cook @ 88 Mile End Road, Mile End
91. Percy Lambert: Fastest Man @ Brompton Cemetary, Brompton, Kensington
92. Stanley I Presume? @ 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall
93. Livingstone I Presume? @ 1 Savile Row
94. Sir Learie lived here @ 101 Lexham Gardens, Earls Court
95. First Birth Control Clinic @ 108 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury
96. The Birdman of Winchmore Hill @ 96 Green Dragon Lane, Palmers Green
97. Joseph Hansom lived here @ 27 Sumner Place, South Kensington
98. Howard Carter's Birthplace @ Richmond Mansions, 252 Old Brompton Road
99. Spend a Penny @ Royal Exchange, London
100. Coldplay Ancestor's Summer Time @ The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Broml
101. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
102. A Blue Plaque for a Car Legend @ 14/15 Conduit Street, Mayfair
103. Agnes Marshalls Food Empire @ 32 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia
104. Robert Cocking's Fall to Earth @ St Margaret's Church, Lee Terrace, Lewisham
105. 1st Motorcycle Engine made here @ 1a Lansdowne Road, Tottenham
106. The Goring @ Beeston Place, Kensington
107. Mr Morse and his special Code @ 141 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia
108. UK's 1st Ten Pin Bowling Alley @ 158 Clapton Common, Stamford Hill
109. James Clark Ross lived here @ 2 Eliot Place, Blackheath
110. Mary Macarthur lived here @ 42 Woodstock Road, Golders Green