This business was founded in 1861 by William Morris, artist and poet, for the manufacture of his designs in wallpapers, chintzes, woven fabrics, carpets, decoration, stained glass, and for the advancement of his great reform in all the decorative arts.
W1, St George Street, 17
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Morris - W1
Designer, author and visionary socialist. Born Elm House, Walthamstow, Essex...
In our photo the Brixton bomb plaque is on the wall above the person in the woolly hat. It had to be raised to this height when the Icela...
Royalty Mansions was built in 1908 as flats with workrooms for tailors. It was purchased for improvement by the Soho Housing Association...
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Burnham Estate This stone was laid by the Mayor, Councillor Henry P. Wilson, JP, 16th October 1937...
The 1927 description of WW1 as 'the greater games overseas' seems strange to us today. 2021: We thank Clive Harris of the historical tea...
A rejected planning application provides some history for the house: "The building dates from pre-1860 and would have formed part of the ...
Born Welbeck Street. An unusual childhood: his father changed their name from Beach to create a fictional connection with the medieval Barons De la Beche of Aldworth. Inheriting a slave plantation ...
Near this site was born on June 29th 1796 John Williams, missionary and shipbuilder, martyred at Erromanga, South West Pacific, November ...
Florence Keen, 1868 - 1942, founder of North Islington School for Mothers, later Manor Gardens Centre. London Borough of Islington Manor ...
In 2009 we were contacted by Alexander Ferguson Moran (Fergus), saying his granddaughter’s husband’s great grandfather was Robert Ryder, VC. Fergus could not easily get to London to investigate th...
The sculptor has a page about this statue and its creation with some interesting photos.
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