{Around a pair of clasped hands, the initials PBS and the motto 'Unitate Fortior' (stronger through unity):}
People's Building Society.
SE13, Lewisham High Street, 97
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
People's Building Society
It was operating in the 1860s with branches in Deptford, Greenwich and Lewish...
In the correspondence pages of the 1927 BMJ the man named on the plaque, Francis Gregg, had a spat with Mr Bishop Harman (of St Thomas' H...
The portrait medallions are on the right hand flank wall, on Cumberlow Avenue. Reading left to right: W. F. R. Stanley; Mrs W. F. Stanley...
Joyce Grenfell, 1910 - 1979, entertainer and writer, lived here in flat no.8, 1957 - 1979. English Heritage
At Lost Hospitals we learn that this was a Nurse's Home, opened in 1931. So it's where Sister Thomas lived, not where she displayed her ...
Wikipedia questions the veracity of this plaque, while acknowledging that Ho was in London between 1913 and 1919, living in West Ealing a...
Architect. Born Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton. His best known work was the former Wembley Stadium, designed with Sir John Simpson, which was originally part of the British Empire Exhibition. He was a pione...
Co-founder of Pret a Manger with Julian Metcalfe, who he met at the Polytechnic of Central London.
Councillor, J.P. Mayor of Hammersmith 1963-64. 1964 – Elected as the first chairman of the newly merged boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham. Additional information and photo provided by Martin Atkin...
Formed as a Territorial Force battalion in The London Regiment in 1908. On 31 December 1921 the battalion amalgamated with the 15th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Prince of Wal...
Trinity House, was designed by architect Samuel Wyatt and built in 1796. The following year the Great Tower Hill Act enabled the creatio...
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