The People of Wokingham have given this building to be used as an Orthopedic Clinic in memory of the men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War of 1914 - 1918 and in thankfulness to almighty God for those who came back in safety . . . — — Map (db m216808) HM WM
Dr. Gideon A. Mantell F.R.S.
Surgeon and Geologist
Born in Lewes 1790. Died in London 1852
Lived Here
He discovered the fossil bones of
the Prehistoric Iguanodon
in the Sussex Weald — — Map (db m129822) HM
Bloomsbury Square
Sir Hans Sloane Trail
by Year 5, Holy Trinity C of E Primary School
this garden has been planted in honour of Sir Hans Sloane. Sir Hans Sloane was born in Killyleagh, County Down, in Ireland in the year 1660. He came to London . . . — — Map (db m130176) HM
Bloomsbury Square Physic Garden
Welcome to our garden in Bloomsbury Square. It's no ordinary garden; it is a physic garden. What's a physic garden? If you want to know more, read on!
A physic garden has plants with medicinal properties for . . . — — Map (db m130177) HM
This building was formerly the
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
Built in 1890 and finally closed in 2002.
It was established by ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON
The first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain who created
a hospital in . . . — — Map (db m115542) HM
Chemistry Department
University College London
During the period 1930-1970
Professor Sir Christopher Ingold
pioneered our understanding of the
electronic basis of structure, mechanism
and reactivity in organic chemistry,
which is . . . — — Map (db m116440) HM
The earliest official reference to the tavern now known as The Queen's Larder is contained in a deed drawn up in 1710 when Sir Nathaniel Curzon let the house to a London Stationer named Matthew Allam. The mortgage was transferred during the . . . — — Map (db m109117) HM
THOMAS CORAM was born at Lyme Regis, Dorset in 1668. He became a Captain in the Merchant Navy trading between England and America. For several years he lived in America as a Shipwright gaining a great reputation as an expert on all matters . . . — — Map (db m112120) HM
Christ’s Hospital
Founded near this site by King Edward VI – 1552
To house, feed and educate needy children
Incorporating the Royal Mathematical School,
founded by King Charles II – 1673
the School moved to Horsham, West . . . — — Map (db m118823) HM
The Boy at Pye Corner was erected to commemorate the staying of the Great
Fire which beginning at Pudding Lane was ascribed to the Sin of Gluttony
when not attributed to the papists as on the monument and the Boy was
made prodigiously fat to . . . — — Map (db m111297) HM
The Red Granite kerbstone
marks the site of the historic
BROAD STREET PUMP
associated with Dr. John Snow's
discovery in 1854
that Cholera is conveyed by water — — Map (db m145183) HM
Dr John Snow (1813 - 1858) founding father of Epidemiology. In 1854 his research linked deaths to the water pump near this site and thus determined that cholera is a water borne disease. — — Map (db m145194) HM
Alan Dower Blumlein filed a patent for a two-channel audio system
called “stereo” on 14 December 1931. It included a “shuffling”
circuit to preserve directional sound, an orthogonal “Blumlein
Pair” of velocity microphones, the recording of two . . . — — Map (db m167118) HM
Hungarian born
British ophthalmologist
Invented Living Eye
Impression Technique
1930
First contact lens
only practice here
1937-1964 — — Map (db m111739) HM
Sir Morell MacKenzie, 1837 - 1892, founded the world's first hospital for diseases of the throat in a building on this site in 1865. — — Map (db m145193) HM
George Biddell Airy, seventh Astronomer Royal, commissioned the enormous telescope that still defines the Prime Meridian and is situated in the building ahead of you. Observations made here were used by cartographers, surveyors, navigators and . . . — — Map (db m117709) HM
James Bradley, third Astronomer Royal, observed with improved accuracy using the telescope (purchased in 1749) that first defined this line in 1750. Owing to the unequal length of solar days, astronomers measure the time using distant stars. Stars . . . — — Map (db m117741) HM
The most noble King Charles II, greatest patron of the arts of Astronomy and Navigation, had this Observatory built to serve both arts. In the year of our Lord 1676, in the twenty-eighth year of his reign. Jonas Moore, Surveyor General of the . . . — — Map (db m117739) HM
The Family Tombstone of Edmond Halley (1656-1742) 2nd Astronomer Royal, 1720-42
The tombstone was moved to the Observatory from the churchyard of St Margaret's in Lee when Halley's tomb was restored by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty in . . . — — Map (db m117738) HM
John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal at Greenwich, used a 100-foot (30.5m) well on this site to accommodate a very long telescope. The astronomer sat at the bottom of the well and observed stars that passed directly overhead. It was hoped . . . — — Map (db m117705) HM
This pillar was built in 1798 to help astronomers align the Observatory's meridian telescope in the building behind you. This telescope defined what was then the Greenwich Meridian established in 1750 and was kept accurately positioned by sighting . . . — — Map (db m117740) HM
Ordnance Survey Bench Mark
The small plate (marked ‘G1692’) is an Ordnance Survey bench mark. Similar marks appear on walls and buildings across the country. The height of each above sea level has been measured and recorded. Dating from the . . . — — Map (db m117704) HM
Behind the window is the telescope which defines the Greenwich Meridian, the transit circle of 1850 designed by 7th Astronomer Royal, George Airy. It was the centre-line of this instrument which was adopted by an international conference in . . . — — Map (db m117742) HM
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Engineering
Heritage Award
The Royal Arsenal
1671 to 1967
The Royal Arsenal produced much of the armaments required by this country during the growth of the British Empire and through two World Wars. Many . . . — — Map (db m118531) HM
Welcome to the Royal Observatory, the historic home of British astronomy, Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the world.
King Charles II signed a Royal Warrant in June 1675 to authorize building the Royal Observatory on the . . . — — Map (db m117707) HM
The Shepherd 24-hour Gate Clock
This is one of the earliest electrically driven public clocks and was installed here in 1852. The dial always shows Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). In summer Britain converts to British Summer Time (BST), which is . . . — — Map (db m117703) HM
The Royal Observatory is famous for supplying Greenwich Mean Time. From 1833, astronomers made a daily signal to mariners in the Thames at 1 p.m. (1300 hrs) by raising and dropping the time-ball on Flamsteed House. In 1852 electrical technology . . . — — Map (db m117708) HM
This is the remaining section of a 40-foot (12m) reflecting telescope, built for the astronomer William Herschel, who became famous for his discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781. the telescope was the largest in the world and cost over £4000, . . . — — Map (db m117706) HM
To the memory of
Sir Hans Sloane B.A.P.
President of the Royal Society
and of the College of Physicians
who in the year of our Lord 1753,
the 92d of his age,
without the least pain of body
and with a conscious serenity of mind
ended . . . — — Map (db m121396) HM
This plaque remembers the thousands of Lambeth residents who died in the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century.
You are standing close to what was the busy junction of Broad Street, Upper and Lower Fore Street before the building of . . . — — Map (db m241239) HM
The Faraday Memorial
Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 to 25 August 1867)
Near this spot in Newington Butts, Michael Faraday, one of Britain's greatest scientific figures, was born on 22 September 1791 and his birth is recorded in the . . . — — Map (db m121927) HM
This building stands on the site of the Old Cornmarket and combined the structures of two houses to form The Winchester Provident Dispensary, set up in 1875 by a group of local citizens to provide medical help for the families of insured people . . . — — Map (db m230005) HM
The Leicester Automaton Clock
This is a reconstruction based on remains at All Saints' Church, Highcross Street, Leicester, supplemented by documentary evidence. The original carved wood quarter-jacks disappeared many years ago, but traditionally . . . — — Map (db m125129) HM
This stone commemorates the 300th anniversary of the founding of The French Hospital at La Providence for the relief of poor French Protestant refugees. On this site since 1959, the charity's almshouses continue to serve Huguenots and others — — Map (db m240346) HM
This Public Memorial
For the Veterans of
Bletchley Park and Its
Outstations was Dedicated
By Her Majesty The Queen
On July the Fifteenth 2011 — — Map (db m117290) WM
On this site during the 1939-45 World War, 12,000 men and women broke the German Lorenz and Enigma ciphers, as well as Japanese and Italian codes and ciphers. They used innovative mathematical analysis and were assisted by two computing machines . . . — — Map (db m154430) HM
Hut 1
The first Bombe machine was installed in this hut. It was brought here in March 1940 to test whether it could help Codebreakers discover Enigma settings more quickly than by hand.
Hut 8
Hut 8 was the centre of naval codebreaking. Here . . . — — Map (db m117289) HM
On 26th February 1935, in the field opposite
Robert Watson Watt and Arnold Wilkins
showed for the first time in Britain that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By 1939 there were 20 stations tracking aircraft at . . . — — Map (db m142702) HM
The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR)
The CPR was designed by Alister Hardy, a fisheries biologist, in the late-1920s. The device is towed off the back of a ship in order to record variations in the abundance and distribution of plankton. . . . — — Map (db m123829) HM
The Marine Biological Association (MBA)
The MBA is a research charity with a worldwide membership. Founded in 1884, the MBA has established itself as a leading marine biological research organisation, contributing to the work of twelve Nobel . . . — — Map (db m123830) HM
The Aquarium of the Marine Biological Association
Until 1998, the ground floor of the Citadel Hill Laboratory was the Plymouth Aquarium. Seawater was pumped to the Aquarium from the Laboratory's underground reservoirs by gas engines. In . . . — — Map (db m123833) HM
Hertha Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Queen Street, Portsea, on 28 April 1854. She was the third child of a Polish Jewish watchmaker named Levi Marks, an immigrant from Tsarist Poland, and Alice Teresa Moss, a seamstress. Her father died in . . . — — Map (db m123119) HM
First Woman to be nominated as
a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Suffragette and vigorous supporter
of Women’s rights
Born in Portsea on the
site of this building
in 1854 — — Map (db m123193) HM
First female "Computer" lived and worked from 4 Brand Lane.
She was employed by the Board of Longitude to compute astronomical tables for the British Nautical Almanac between 1773 & 1815 — — Map (db m233022) HM
RSC Advancing the Chemical Sciences
National Chemical Landmark
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS
(1828 – 1914)
Chemist, physicist and inventor of the
incandescent light bulb which he
first demonstrated at a public lecture here
on 3 . . . — — Map (db m126492) HM
John Snow
(1813 – 1858)
Pioneer of Public Health
And Anaesthesia
Proved that Cholera is water-borne
by removing a pump handle
Born and lived in North Street
until aged 14 — — Map (db m125208) HM
Dr John Snow (1813-1858) was a Victorian physician, a pioneer in the fields of anaesthesia and epidemiology, famed for his tracing of the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho and confirming that it is a waterborne disease. John Snow . . . — — Map (db m125207) HM
St. Leonard’s Hospital
Built at the expense of John Romanus (died 1255) this building, comprising a vaulted crypt with a chapel above, formed part of St. Leonard’s Hospital, at one time the largest hospital in the North of England. Originally known . . . — — Map (db m125343) HM
