Erection date: 1995
There is meant to be another identical plaque further north in Brick Lane but we cannot find it. This cast-iron roundel, showing buttons and scissors, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Brick Lane
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane south
The origins of the East End textile industry can be traced to the 14th centur...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane south
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
H.G. Wells writer lived in this house in 1894 whilst writing The Time Machine. The H.G. Wells Society
Quoted from Charles Dickens' preface to Little Dorrit.
The Crafts have another plaque in this road but English Heritage are clear that this (number 26) is the house in which the Crafts settled...
A London Inheritance has a good post on this house and its history.
The facade of this building tells the history of the school. Each of the 4 gable ends carries a plaque with a dated event, reading from l...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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