Businessman and record producer. Born Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell in Westminster.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Chris Blackwell
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Basing Street Studios
Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer finished the albums 'Catch a Fire' and '...
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Great fire of Tooley Street
From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for ...
2 memorials
Nicholson's pubs
The Nicholson's brothers opened their first pub in 1873.
1 memorial
Lloyds Coffee House
Edward Lloyd first opened his coffee house on Tower Street in 1687 but had to move to larger premises in Lombard Street in 1691. It was a meeting place for businessmen where information was exchan...
1 memorial
National Provident Institution
In 1835 two men, who had been successful with the Friends Provident Institution, selling life assurance only to Quakers, formed the less choosy National Provident Institution, opening for business ...
2 memorials
United Kingdom Temperance & General Provident Institution
A life insurance company. From FriendsLife: "The UK Total Abstinence Life was formed in London in 1840 and, as the name suggests, its products were aimed initially at teetotallers. The group grew ...
1 memorial
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Stanley Arthur Heaps
Architect. He designed a number of stations on the London Underground system, including the stations on the Edgware extension of the Northern Line, as well as train depots and bus and trolleybus ga...
5 memorials
Tachbrook - Beaufort
SW1, Bessborough Street
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
2 subjects commemorated
Michael Faraday
Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?). Born in Newington Butts but brought up near Oxford Street. Trained as a bookbinder and here he was given tickets to s...
9 memorials
Thomas Cobden-Sanderson
Bookbinder and printer. Born Thomas James Sanderson at Alnwick, Northumberland. He married Anne Cobden (suffragette daughter of Richard) in 1882 and added her surname to his. He was a friend of Edw...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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