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Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers

The WCSIM promotes the craft of scientific instrument making and the exchange of ideas and information by members and guests through meetings, visits, lectures and social events.

Group, Liveries & Guilds

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Ford Madox Ford

Born Surrey as Ford Hueffer, of an English mother and German father. On the death of their father in 1889 Ford and his brother went to live with Ford Madox Brown their mother's father and subsequen...

Person, Literature, France, Germany

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Robert Atkinson & A. F. B. Anderson

Architects active in the 1930s. Also built the Grade II listed Swiss Cottage Regency Lodge, the huge block of flats that occupies the southern section of the Swiss Cottage gyratory.

Group, Architecture

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Lambe's Chapel and crypt / St James in the Wall

In 1543, after the dissolution of the monasteries, the hermitage Chapel of St James in the Wall was granted to William Lambe. It was adjacent to his residence, beside London Wall in Monkwell Street...

Building, Religion

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W. H. Smith

Bookseller and politician. The son in "W. H. Smith and Son". He introduced the W. H. Smith stalls at railway stations and the business thrived. Entered politics in 1868. Appointed First Lord of t...

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration