Group    From 1935 

Securicor PLC

Categories: Armed Forces

Security company. Founded by Edward Shortt as Nightwatch Services. Originally, its employess rode bicycles and wore old police uniforms. In 2004 it merged with Group 4 Falck to become Group 4 Securicor.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Securicor PLC

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Rotary Armillary

An armillary (or astrolabe) is a model comprising rings showing the positions...

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Spitalfields engine-house

Spitalfields engine-house

'Engine-house' was an early term for what we would now call a fire station. The engine was initially merely a hand-operated pump. This and some ladders might be housed in the local church, but as t...

Building, Armed Forces

3 memorials
W. A. Hood

W. A. Hood

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Corporal Charles Garforth, VC

Corporal Charles Garforth, VC

Soldier. Charles Ernest Garforth was born in Willesden Green. He was a corporal in the 15th (The King's) Hussars. On 23rd August 1914 at Harmingnies, France, he cut wire while under fire, enabling ...

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Samuel George Reginald Horsford

Samuel George Reginald Horsford

Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.

Person, Armed Forces, South Africa

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
W. J. Allison

W. J. Allison

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial