Erection date: 1890
These buildings were erected by John Studds and Son of Barrets Grove Stoke Newington
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Commenced 1889 Finished 1890
Yes, they've mis-spelt the name of their own road.
N1, Upper Street, 48
Number 49 returns round Berners Street and its decorative pillar tops (can't really call them capitals) each carry a beehive.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Beehive foundation stone - Upper Street
A building firm based in Barretts Grove, Stoke Newington, active in 1891. Slu...
Greater London Council George Nathaniel Curzon Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 1859-1919 Statesman, Viceroy of India, lived and died here
Hillingdon, London Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, biologist, pharmacologist and Nobel prize winner for the discovery of penicillin, appoin...
Near this spot at 62 Fore Street on the 29th January 1850 was born Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City Movement. The Corporat...
To people who don't have any prior knowledge that last sentence is a bit of a non sequitur.
Sir Learie Constantine, 1901 - 1971, West Indian cricketer and statesman, lived here 1949 - 1954. English Heritage
Lord Mayor of London 1671-2. Son of a Southwark vintner. A wholesale ironmonger. The picture source has some information about him and his family. Involved in the slave trade.
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Oliver Duncan Bennett was born on 8 April 1972 and his birth was registered in the Hammersmith registratio...
Alderman of St Dunstan's ward. Lord Mayor 1848. M.P. London 1849. Born Montrose, Scotland.
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