Builder active in 1871.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
C. R. Foster
Commemorated ati
St Jude - enlargement
This memorial stone was laid on the 8th day of June 1871 to the Glory of God,...
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Bowman's Lodge
An elegant house with views across countryside. Edward Lear's stockbroker father held the lease 1806 - 1829 so Edward lived here until he was 16. With two storeys and five bays it was not a parti...
Octavia Hill
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare
John Elger
Architect, master builder and speculative developer. Active in London and Bedford. From British History: "... a Bedford carpenter's son who had made his name in the 1820s and '30s as a speculative...
St James's Gardens, W11
RBKC and British History Online have a lot of information about the creation of this square, with plans and drawings.
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W. H. Smith - W2
W2, Hyde Park Street, 12
This house probably looked OK when it was part of a terrace but on its own it just looks weird.
Yun Byung-Se
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea in 2014.
PP - 3P - Donovan
EC1, Edward Street
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
George Devine
W6, Lower Mall, 9
English Heritage George Devine, 1910-1966, actor, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, 1956-1965, lived here.
Annette Fennessy tree
N1, Canonbury Square Gardens
The memorial does not provide enough information for us to be able to identify this woman, who could not have been older than 43 when she...
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