The first Pret a Manger shop and kitchen was opened near here by Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham on 22nd July 1986.
Passionate about food - Thank you to our loyal staff and customers
SW1, Victoria Street, 75b
Londonist brought this plaque to our attention. The plaque does not tell the whole story - see our page "first Pret a Manger - shop" for that.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Pret a Manger - first
The brand Pret a Manger actually started in Hampstead but that folded after 1...
Co-founder of Pret a Manger with Julian Metcalfe, who he met at the Polytechn...
Co-founder of Pret a Manger with Sinclair Beecham, who he met at the Polytech...
The halo and the baby would suggest the woman represented is the Virgin Mary but she may also represent the less revered mothers who were...
Chandler lived here, 1900 to 1905, while a day pupil at nearby Dulwich College, overlapping by a term, but never meeting, with fellow stu...
No inscription remains legible but we believe we've found the painting used as the model for the head on the right and it's Erasmus. So ...
Greater London Council Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, 1827 - 1900, anthropologist and archaeologist, lived here.
Nothing to do with Stothard but interesting anyway: Newman Passage, just south of this plaque, was the location in Michael Powell's 1960 ...