1831 1907
William Whiteley
{On ribbon:}
labora et vive {Latin for: work and live}
{At lower right:}
Geo. Frampton RA, 1915
KT12, Whiteley Village
The Listing text says the statue and the relief are of copper, not the more usual bronze. The front of the plinth below the seated lady supports (top to bottom): the relief; the plaque; the foundation stone. The biographical plaque is on the back.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
William Whiteley - bust
Entrepreneur and founder of Whiteley's department store on Queensway, now Whi...
A retirement village created with a bequest from William Whiteley. A charitab...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
William Whiteley - bust
Sculptor. Born at 91 Brook Street, Lambeth. Died at home at 91 Carlton Hill,...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
William Whiteley - bust
This foundation stone was laid by the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Art...
William Whiteley, the founder of this Trust, was born at Agbrigg, Yorks on th...
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Left to right: Cons, Martineau, Hubback, Baylis. In our photo the pedestrian has just walked past Baylis. These mosaics are on the Maufe...
Building designed by Sidney R. J. Smith. The roundel is in the spandrel of the main ground floor window. The Ornamental Passions pag...
The building by E. R. Robson was erected for the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour, founded in 1831 (the crest in the centre of...
The wonderful Spitalfields Life published a map on the East End Suffragette activities. And London Historians has a post 'Parliament and Votes for Women'.
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2019: We read the splendid Legacy by Thomas Harding published by Heinemann, a history of the family that built the J. Lyons empire. Below are our notes from that reading (augmented by the Oxford Ho...
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