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==Honours== * In 1862 a small parcel of the land south of [[Blackfriars Bridge]] was designated as an open space to memorialise John Rennie by the [[City of London Corporation]].<ref name="Londonist2005">{{cite web |url=https://londonist.com/2005/08/londonist_loves_12 |title=Londonist Loves ... Rennie Garden |publisher=Londonist |date=10 August 2005 |access-date=29 January 2025}}</ref><ref name="Londonist2020">{{cite web |url=https://londonist.com/2016/09/why-is-there-a-bit-of-the-square-mile-in-south-london |author=Will Noble |title=Why Is This Bit Of The Square Mile South Of The River? |publisher=Londonist |date=31 March 2020 |access-date=29 January 2025}}</ref> *In 2014 he was inducted into the [[Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/leith-docks-engineer-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-1-3562654 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105247/http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/leith-docks-engineer-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-1-3562654 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |title=Leith docks engineer inducted into hall of fame |work=Edinburgh Evening News |date=4 October 2014}}</ref> *The [[Ruislip Lido Railway]], based at [[Ruislip Lido]] (one of the dams John Rennie built), named one of its locomotives after him. The Bo-Bo type diesel 'John Rennie' was built in 2004 and is one of the main engines of the line. *More recently, [[Lancaster Royal Grammar School]] Boat Club named one of their boats after him as he built the aqueduct over the river on which they row.
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