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Sun Fire Office

Categories: Commerce

Founded in London, now the oldest existing insurance company in the world.

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Sun Fire Office

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Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society

Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society

Retailer. Originally established as the Royal Arsenal Supply Association, by twenty workers from the Royal Arsenal. It was renamed in 1872, and expanded from just being a food retailer, into a vast...

Group, Commerce, Food & Drink

4 memorials
First Waitrose

First Waitrose

See Waitrose for some information.

Event, Commerce

1 memorial
Commercial Motor Users of Hackney

Commercial Motor Users of Hackney

The name suggest a group of local business people coming together around the use of new-fangled motor-powered conveyances. The text of the plaque tells us that they also had charitable activities. ...

Group, Benefactor, Commerce

1 memorial
Shafron & Co Ltd

Shafron & Co Ltd

Trader at Covent Garden Market at its original site.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
Hugh Shearer and Co.

Hugh Shearer and Co.

De Lank Quarries have a Wikipedia page but Hugh Shearer and Co. are more mysterious. Probably the firm that owned the quarry at the time and/or carved the monument.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial

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F. C. Fox

F. C. Fox

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Fireman Colin Comber

Fireman Colin Comber

Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Peter Brian O'Connell Hutchins, to locate the s...

Person, Emergency Services, Tragedy

2 memorials
W. F. Bacon

W. F. Bacon

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. Simms

J. Simms

Late addition to the St David's memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
David Brand Roberts

David Brand Roberts

Killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, aged 35. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: David Brand Roberts was born on 22 February 1964. He lived in Wiltshire and died, aged 35...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial