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2 unusual facts about John Rennie


John Rennie

John Rennie the Elder (1761–1821), engineer (factories, canals, design of London Bridge)

Sir John Rennie the Younger (1794–1874), engineer (rail lines, completion of London Bridge)


Dugald Sutherland MacColl

In the 1920s he campaigned, unsuccessfully, for the preservation of John Rennie's Waterloo Bridge.

Lancaster Canal

In 1791, John Longbotham, Robert Dickinson and Richard Beck resurveyed the proposed line, and a final survey was carried out later the same year by John Rennie.

London Docks

The principal designers were the architects and engineers Daniel Asher Alexander and John Rennie.

River Welland

Two reports were produced, one by George Maxwell, and the second by Edward Hare, who had been assisted by William Jessop and John Rennie.

Ulverston Canal

He estimated the cost at £2,000, which had been raised by May 1792, but by this time, the engineer John Rennie had produced proper plans for a ship canal, estimated to cost £3,084, including the construction of a sea lock.


see also

Francis Giles

London to Portsmouth Ship Canal – 1825 – took levels for the combined scheme of John Rennie, James Elmes and N W Cundy.

Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow

In 1810 the bridge was again declared to be "in decay" and dangerous, and local magistrates commissioned engineer John Rennie, the architect of Waterloo Bridge in London, to design a new bridge.