Founded by Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor as a small Acton grocers, Waite, Rose and Taylor. Taylor left the business and in 1908 the name Waitrose was adopted. It was taken over by John Lewis in 1937, but retained its separate identity, and opened its first supermarket in 1955 in Streatham.
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Surbiton clock tower
{Plaque beneath a medallion of King Edward VII:} Coronation clock tower - a s...
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Dairy Supply Company Limited
Establihsed by George Barham in the late 19th century to sell milk-related things, such as the milk churns which Barham had invented.
3 memorials
Highbury Barn
Long a rural pleasure resort for Londoners it became notorious in 1861, when Edward Giovanelli demolished the old buildings and built a lavish pleasure ground which attracted large crowds, includin...
1 memorial
Sandra Esquilant
Landlady of the Golden Heart pub since 1978 and, in 2002, voted into 80th place in a list of the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art. See the Telegraph for more.
1 memorial
Bearman's Department Store
Opened by Frank Bearman on the site of a former vicarage. By 1906 he had purchased a nearby furniture shop, and in 1910 opened an arcade to match the larger department stores in London. It claimed ...
1 memorial
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. ...
1 memorial
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Andrew O'Connor
Sculptor. Born USA, not to be confused with his father also a sculptor with the same name, of Irish descent. In London c.1894-8, met and worked with John Singer Sargent. Also worked in Paris c.1...
1 memorial
Dr John Langdon Down
TW11, Kingston Road, Langdon Park
We could not get close enough to take easily legible photographs and initially read the dates as '1957' but given that Normansfield close...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Paul Matthews
N1, Rodney Street, Joseph Grimaldi Park
Londonist report that when this church was converted for office use Grimaldi's grave (the above ground part at least) was moved to this l...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Reformers tree / Reform tree
The text on the memorial says that the original tree was burnt by the people at the Reform League meeting at the tree on that day in 1866 but we can find no confirmation of that. Wikipedia has qui...
1 memorial
Austin Dobson
SW10, Redcliffe Street, 10
London County Council Austin Dobson, 1840-1921, poet and essayist, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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