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...
Reading top down the plaques are: Holstein, Harvey, "Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund".
In 1882 a private art school was founded by the Victorian animal painter, Thomas Sidney Cooper, in this building which was also his home....
There is meant to be another identical plaque further north in Brick Lane but we cannot find it. This cast-iron roundel, showing buttons ...
This image comes from the 1946 short documentary film 'Prisoners of the Tower'. It is shown laid into the ground at the centre of a cobbl...
We haven't collected the seated ballerina statue since it is not commemorative, as far as we know, but it does belongs to the select grou...
