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 is an example of the on-going removal of London's public toilets - and public urinals are now as rare as hens' teeth. One of the fe...
The window cleaner thought we were photographing him but the real object, of our attentions, the plaque, is on the wall behind his paraph...
Greater London Council William Marsden, 1796 - 1867, surgeon, founder of the Royal Free and Royal Marsden Hospitals, lived here.
The brick pier built to display these rescued plaques is behind the railings, at the right of our photo. Until we did the research we as...
The plaque is low down on the house adorned with scaffolding, so low that it suggests he lived in the basement flat.
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