Potter. Née Gompertz in Vienna into a rich, intellectual family. 1938 she and her husband fled Nazism intending to go to the USA but Lucie, already more interested in her work than her husband, decided to stay in London alone. Do Google her work - it is lovely and delicate compared with that of Bernard Leach, another big name in pottery at the time. Died at home, Albion Mews.
The photo shows Lucie Rie in 1987 at her front door. It is (c) Jim Hair and we thank him for the photo.
Furniture designer, founding member of the Design and Industries Association and director of Heals.
Clockmaker. From a family of clockmakers. Baptized in 1768 in Staffordshire (which, if true, makes the birth date on the plaque wrong).
in 1966 Henry Moss & Harry Fox opened the iconic Lady Jane, Carnaby Street's first women's fashion boutique. Our picture source, the Jewish Chronicle, shows that the whole Carnaby Street phenom...
Poet. Born as Lazarus Perkoff at "123 Oxford Street in Mile End Road" according to UCL Archives. His parents were Polish Jews so we believe the Mile End bit. Spent 1938 - 43 in Argentina. On h...
Architect. Born in Edinburgh. Amongst his designs were: Aberconway House, Mayfair (1922), the Royal Horticultural Society's Lawrence Hall (1928); the British Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in Ne...
John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865) and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...
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