Beneath this arch was situated the first workshop of Frederick Richard Simms, 1863 - 1944.
Father of the British Motor Industry
SW6, Ranelagh Gardens
Diamond Geezer has a post on this area, the station and the footbridge.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Frederick Simms
Mechanical engineer and businessman. Born Hamburg, where his grandfather, fro...
Sometime between 2009 and 2012 a long blue panel was added to this building, low on the left. The text adds some detail to the famous me...
30 Coborn Street. Here Doctor Barnardo first lodged on coming to London in 1866. Historic buildings of Bow
English Heritage Enid Bagnold, 1889-1981, novelist and playwright lived here.
Alexis Soyer, 1810 - 1858, chef, author of cookbooks, inventor, lived here. City of Westminster
Living next door, Whittington paid for the rebuilding and enlargement of the church St Michael Paternoster Royal. Upper Thames Street is ...
Gainsborough Pictures was founded in 1924 by Michael Balcon. These Islington studios were closely related to those at Lime Grove, used by Gaumont-British, with Balcon as Director of Production for ...
Sure looks like a City of London plaque but the text around the edge is different. We're guessing that the Congregation funded the plaque...
From the Kew Guild: "The Kew Guild was founded in 1893, as an offshoot of the Kew Mutual Improvement Society (itself created in 1871), with an intention of uniting past and present “Kewites” by mea...
The Elephant and Castle pub was at the corner of Wick Road and Victoria Park Road.
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