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...
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
In 1940, after briefly being in Mayfair and Victoria, de Gaulle moved here with his French National Committee. On 18 June that year he ma...
There are two stone plaques either side of the entrance, low on the wall, and two, rather classier, plaques in the entrance lobby. Readi...
'OL' stands for 'Old Lyonian'. 'Stet Fortuna Domus' means ' Let the fortune of the house stand'.
John McCormack, 1884 - 1945, lyric tenor, lived here, 1908 - 1913. English Heritage
