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...
Milton sitting on the left; Shakespeare on the right; Carnegie's cartouche is inside the porch, above the door. Erected in 1905, Carnegi...
The stone with the 'W', or 'M', looks not to have been created as part of this design. "W' for well?
Greater London Council Lytton Strachey, 1880 - 1932, critic and biographer, lived here.
Also called St Alban the Martyr, designed by Edward Monson Jr. and opened in 1888. Pevsner commented: 'The view of the church from the G...
The Les Mis plaque is laid in the ground at the front, audience, entrance.
Chairman of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society in 1900.
The building has been the home of Quo Vadis, an old and venerable Italian restaurant for many years.
Composer of the Classical period - prominent and prolific. Born Austria as Franz Joseph Haydn. Aged 6 he was sent away to train as a musician. Worked primarily for the wealthy Esterházy family. ...
Thomas Booth was born circa 1894 in Nowgong, East India, a son of Thomas and Agnes Elizabeth Booth. On 31 March 1901 when the 1901 census was undertaken, he is shown as a 6-year-old boy living at ...
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
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