The second largest supermarket chain in the U.K. Founded by John James Sainsbury at 173 Drury Lane. In June 2015, the group comprised 1,312 branches and convenience stores.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Ladbroke Grove rail disaster - plaques
The plaques are located on a wall overlooking the site of the disaster. Unfor...
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John Reynolds Roberts
Shopkeeper and philanthropist. Born Camberwell. Aged 17 he and his brother Thomas, left their home in Newington Green and began work in London as errand boys in a drapers. In 1870 he opened a store...
2 memorials
Galen Weston
Businessman Willard Gordon Galen Weston was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, his father being a Canadian businessman. Having studied business Weston went to Dublin and set up his own grocery store ...
1 memorial
Smith, Elder & Co.
Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868. Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning...
1 memorial
John Stephen
Founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960s. From Glasgow. The V&A hold his archive.
1 memorial
1 memorial