Builder active in 1885. Nominative determinism strikes again - see Isambard Brunel for more examples.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Charles Wall
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Chelsea Vestry Hall
This stone was laid by G. W. Osborn Esquire, acting-Chairman of the Vestry on...
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London Bridge City
We'd never heard of this but apparently it is a "prestigious estate" of over 93,000 sq m of office, retail, leisure and residential accommodation, including No 1 London Bridge, Hay’s Galleria Londo...
Biggott House / Bigod House
Queen's-Haven have a post about this house, where it was and what occupied the site after it was gone, and gives "Norfolk House ... lies to the south of the foundations of Bigod House, sometimes ca...
Jonathan Carr
Jonathan Thomas Carr. Founder of Bedford Park, the first garden suburb, in 1875. He lived in the suburb, first at Tower House, since replaced by St Catherine’s Court flats, which he left in 1904 to...
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Olaudah Equiano
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
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