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Hope Chemical Works Wall - London

Walls of the pioneering Carless, Capel and Leonard’s Hope Chemical Works, which became the country’s main crude petroleum distillery, coining the word petrol for its product in 1893, Hackney Wick, London

Date 1 July 2026

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