Dealer in birds and wildlife generally. Born Johann Christian Carl Jamrach in either Hamburg or Memel (depending on source). He moved to London and became an importer, breeder, and exporter of animals, selling to a variety of clients including P.T. Barnum, Lord Rothschild, Dante Rossetti and London Zoo. He died in Bow.
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Charles Jamrach
{Plaque beneath a statue of a bear} Over a hundred years ago on what was then...
{Plaque beneath a statue of a Bengal tiger and a boy:} In the early years of...
Formerly known as the Midland Railway Basin (though we could find nothing under thatn name). Opened as a coal wharf. 1958 converted to a pleasure craft area. Now home to the St Pancras Cruising C...
Chairman of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society in 1900.
Businessman and local politician. Born Warwick but spent most of his working life in London. His businesses tended to have colonial, especially Australian, connections. Lived at Hanger Hill House,...
A number of privately owned telegraph companies operated in Britain from 1846 onwards. In 1868 these all came under the control of the newly formed GPO (General Post Office). With the invention of ...
Granddaughter of Richard Welford (1817-1858) who founded and ran Warwick Farm Dairies. Annie Frances Welford was born on 18 March 1871 the fifth of the six children of John Welford (1844-1924) and...
Enid Blyton, 1897 - 1968, children's writer, lived here, 1920 - 1924. English Heritage
From Westminster's Conservation Audit: This Listed grade II monument was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is in a high Victorian ...
Bob Speel tells us that this sculptor's works are rare, in London at least, but he knows of some in Salisbury and Oxford. The NPG has "Hope-Pinker".
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