Erection date: 1995
The plaque shows a shuttle and two bobbins, representing the local weaving trade. It is placed close to Dennis Severs' House and was made using items found in that house.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Folgate Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Shuttle and Bobbins
The origins of the East End textile industry can be traced to the 14th centur...
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were s...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Shuttle and Bobbins
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
W. Somerset Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage (P654-5) contains a lovely description of daybreak seem from Westminster Bridge c.1898 which...
{On the small plaque:} To mark the centenary of Rookfield Garden Village Ltd incorporated 28th August 1913. {On the larger plaque} Willi...
In our photo the plaque can be seen in the paving, in the shadow but catching the light. Quite a dull foundation stone which we may not ...
In the absence of any other source our colleague Andrew Behan has turned to the Post Office telephone directories for the background to t...
English Heritage Sir Mortimer Wheeler, 1890-1976 Archaeologist lived here.
From the picture source website: "In 1710 Cass set up a school for 50 boys and 40 girls in buildings in the churchyard of St Botolph-without-Aldgate. Intending to leave all his property to the scho...
Born into an elite horsey family, close to the royals. 1960 commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and stayed in the mounted services for much of his military career, based at Hyde Park Barracks....
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Group, Africa, Caribbean Islands, India, Indian Sub-continent, Pakistan
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