Erection date: 1995
The plaque shows a detail from a design for the silk fabric produced in Spitalfields. We believe the design shows a pomegranate in the Jacobean style, popular in the 18th century. One very successful designer was Garthwaite, who lived and worked one street to the north.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Fournier Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Silk Design (A)
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were s...
Fabric designer. Born Leicestershire. Moved with her sister to Princes (now P...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Silk Design (A)
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
This plaque is on one of the much distressed pillars at the foot of the steps.
Palace Theatre - Stage Entrance The world's greatest artistes have passed and will pass through these doors.
Wilkie Collins, 1824 - 1889, Victorian novelist and author of 'The Woman in White' and 'The Moonstone', was born in a house on this site....
We were surprised to see a memorial plaque attached to this piece of street furniture, a way-finding finger-post. Is this the only one? O...
L.C.C. Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer (1868-1912), lived here.
Co-operative movement activist and social reformer. Born at Warrington, Lancashire. He joined the Anti-Slavery Society and was a supporter of the Northern cause in the American civil war. His invol...
Barrister, local politician and Mayor of Hornsey 1908-9. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and published a number of books on historical subjects. In the 1890s the College of Arms, Lond...
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know what it was previously called. We can't discover the conne...
We took our photos on 25 November.
We chose the frame in the film that shows the plaque (immediately in front of the man's head) and also the corner stone lintel and pillar...
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