From 1885 until at least 1908 he was the Bedford Estate surveyor. Specialised in designing hotels, such as Hotel Russell. Other London work includes: Imperial Hotel next to Hotel Russell (demolished), the Bloomsbury Apollo Inn (demolished), Waterstones in Torrington Place - built in 1907 as a row of shops in Victorian Gothic - see Ornamental Passions. Also worked on the India Office. He designed the Titanic's dinning room, copying that in Hotel Russell.
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Charles Fitzroy Doll
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David Garrick - WC2
Cast bronze, designed by Doll and modelled by Fehr. Erected by Herbrand Russe...
Pugin family
Historic England has ""Kupron bronze plaque on 1st floor designed in 1908 by ...
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Charles Robert Cockerell
Architect and antiquary, Born London. Educated at Westminster. Harrow Old Schools was his first building.
2 memorials
Sir John Summerson
Museum curator and architectural historian. Born John Newenham Summerson at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. He taught at Edinburgh College of Art, and had professorships at Oxford and Camb...
1 memorial
John Knight
Architect. We only have some ideas about who this might be, from Charles Saumarez Smith. In 1862 he may be the J. McKenzie Knight who designed the lovely Vestry Hall in Bancroft Road E1, and is now...
1 memorial
Edmond Egan, ARIBA
Architect. Designed Lopping Hall in 1883. It was built by his brother, John. From Epping Forest Guardian we learnt that in 1881 Egan built a house for himself on the High Road, very close to Loppi...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Sir George Shearing
SW11, Bolingbroke Grove, 26, Northcote Road School
The school was formerly the Linden Lodge School for the Blind, which Shearing attended as a boy. The plaque is on a building far from the...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Ambrose Fleming
W9, Clifton Gardens, 9 + 11
Following the erection of the Pettit plaque we visited in June 2024 to photo that and to take a new photo showing numbers 9 and 11 with t...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Selfridges centenary
W1, Oxford Street, Selfridges
The centenary plaque is on the west side of the western pillar at the main entrance. The brass plaque is on the floor of that entrance lo...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
Sir George Still
W1, Queen Anne Street, 28
English Heritage Sir George Frederic Still, 1868 - 1941, paediatrician, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Samuel Gurney obelisk
E15, The Broadway, Stratford
The Biblical quote is from Job 29:11. Water was supplied to the basins on the north and south faces by these unusual spouts. At the cent...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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