Plaque

Heals - south

Inscription

Heal & Son extended their shop in Tottenham Court Road & rebuilt the portion in Afred Mews, 1936 - 1938.
Directors: Sir Ambrose Heal, Hamilton T. Smith, George P. Stacy, Anthony S. Heal, Secretary - Geoffrey S. Beale, Architect - Edward Maufe ARA, Contractors - Trollope & Colls

This plaque is on the last but one southern pier of the southern building.

Site: Heals building (2 memorials)

W1, Tottenham Court Road, Heals

The frieze at the top of the southern Heal's building reads: "MDCCCX, Heal & Son, MCMXVI, Heal & Son, MCMXXXVII", the dates being: 1810 - when Heal's was founded;1916 - when the northern half of this building was erected; 1937 - when the southern half was added.

When passing do drop in to see the splendid spiral staircase, with its cat.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Heals - south

Subjects commemorated i

Heal's furniture store

John Harris Heal established a feather dressing business at 33 Rathbone Place...

Sir Ambrose Heal

Furniture designer and retailer. Born at Crouch End. Studied at the Slade Sch...

Anthony Standerwick Heal

Son of Sir Ambrose Heal of the Heals furniture shop which was established in ...

Edward Maufe

Architect. Born in Yorkshire as Edward Brantwood Muff into a family which, in...

Hamilton T. Smith

Furniture designer, founding member of the Design and Industries Association ...

Show all 6

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Heals - south

Also at this site i

Heals - north

On the north-most pier of the southern building.

See other memorials in the area

Nearby Memorials

Columbia Market air raid shelter memorial

E2, Old Market Square, Rose Garden, Ravenscroft Park

This small garden is well-hidden. It's to the east of the tower Sivill House, that's the building in the background of our photo. We we...

Civilian war dead | WW2
48 subjects commemorated

View on map

E. H. Shepard - NW1

NW1, Kent Terrace, 10

E. H. Shepard, 1879 – 1976, painter and illustrator lived here. English Heritage

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Abney House

N16, Stoke Newington Church Street

Oops! The plaque has 'Issac' rather than the more common 'Isaac' and we can't find any support for this odd spelling. Hope no one lost th...

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

McCartney and Eastman

W1, Kingly Street, 9

Linda and Paul met when they both attended a Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames gig here.

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

View on map

Charles Lamb - 89 Chase Side

EN2, Chase Side, 85 and 89

Number 89 is the house with the white porch on the left of the photograph, and number 85 is the white house with the green door. Hidden ...

1 subject commemorated

View on map