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(lost) Bowler plaque - Soup, Bread and Salt

Bowler plaque - Soup, Bread and Salt
Bowler plaque - Soup, Bread and Salt

Erection date: 1995

We failed to find this in Dec-Jan 2017. The plaque shows bowls of soup, bread rolls and spoons holding salt, as a reference to the Jewish soup kitchen. This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.

Site: Bowler plaque - Soup, Bread and Salt (1 memorial)

E1, Brune Street, 17-19

In the frieze above the first floor windows: "Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor", above the doors: "In", "Out" and at the centre: "5662 1902", above which a two-handled soup tureen is depicted. 5662 is 1902 in the Hebrew calendar.

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Bowler plaque - Soup, Bread and Salt

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Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor

From LMA: Founded January 1854 in Fashion Street with the aim to supply soup,...

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Bowler plaque - Soup, Bread and Salt

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Keith Bowler

We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...

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