Of Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey, a successful leather manufacturers. Father of Samuel Bourne.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
James Buckington Bevington
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Bevington fountain
Why (Oh why, oh why) do people chose dark, coloured granite for inscriptions?...
Other Subjects
District Bank
Founded as Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. Name shortened to District Bank in 1924. 1962 acquired by the National Provincial Bank but traded separately until the 1968 merger with Westminste...
Fountains Abbey pub
Sir Alexander Fleming was a loyal regular. Legend says that it was mould spores from this ale house which blew through Fleming’s window, leading him to the discovery of Penicillin in 1928. The Fo...
Doubleday's grocery shop
Doubleday's father was a grocer and following his death Doubleday managed the business, not very well, apparently. This Facebook page has a 1975 photo of the building with the plaque, 271 High Stre...
East London Toy Factory
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...
Abele Giandolini
Abele Giandolini, "Monsieur Abel", opened The Ivy as a cafe on this site in 1917. On-line information about Giandolini is hard to come by. Bonhams sold an Epstein head, "Third Portrait of Jackie (...