Publishing firm created by Alexander MacMillan.
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A. Macmillan & Co.
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Rossetti fountain
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
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William Randolph Hearst
Born San Francisco. A self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper man. The model for Citizen Kane.
John Kidd and Co.
Manufacturers of printing ink for the newspaper industry. Its head office was at Wine Office Court off Fleet Street.
Beckenham Journal
Newspaper. Started as a 24 page monthly publication costing 1d (about 0.5p). In 1881 it was taken over by Tom William Thornton, who published it weekly. Became a campaigning vehicle which informed ...
Sir Arthur Pearson
Newspaper publisher and philanthropist. Born in Wookey, Somerset. In 1898 he founded the Daily Express, which was innovative in printing news instead of adverts on its front page. When he started t...
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Hippodrome - Judy Garland
WC2, Cranbourn Street, Hippodrome casino
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
Bengal Artillery 6th Company 9rd Battalion
Part of the force commanded by Havelock.
Marylebone Flyover
This flyover is one end of a short disconnected piece of motorway, the Westway, constructed 1964-70 to relieve congestion, back in the days when this was thought to be the solution. It was part of ...
Parachute mines
These were used initially by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the German Luftwaffe in 1940-41. They acted as blast bombs and were capable of killing up to 100 people.
Trustees of Borough Market
Borough Market is a charitable trust, run by a board of volunteer trustees. They ensure that the activities of the market meet the trust's clearly defined responsibilities.
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