Erection date: /4/1941
L. & Co
1726
EC1, Saffron Hill, 32-38
We discovered early in our researches that these were the premises of Longman's ship binding works. We then tried and failed to learn the purpose of this strange activity "ship binding". Only when we researched Longmans did we understand. Capitalisation and vocal stress can convey very important information.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Longman's Ship Binding Works
Thomas Longman (1699-1755) through an inheritance acquired a publishing house...
London County Council Samuel Morse, 1791 - 1872, American painter, and inventor of the Morse Code, lived here, 1812 - 1815.
The building is dated 1893 and presumably was named after Blackfriars Priory even though that was on the other side of the river.
We have numbered these 17 plaques, anti-clockwise, starting from the plaque for the whole crew which faces the water. Oddly, the last two...
Dr A Gordon Signy, 1905 - 1972, pioneering pathologist & international fencer, lived here 1955 - 1972. London Borough of Islington Is...
2019: MansionGlobal reported that the house was for sale for £16 million, with an aspirational night-time photo of the pool at the back.