This arch overlooked Dial Square, named for the sundial in the centre. It is the site of the Royal Gun Factories where gun barrels were bored out. In 1886, the workers here formed a football club - Dial Square FC, which was the origin of the current day Arsenal Football Club. Our picture shows the arch prior to its development as a bar and restaurant.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Dial Square
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City of London Engineer in 1977 and 1982.
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HM Surveyor of Roads, 1690-1715. Not a poor man, he owned property in St Martin's-in-the-Fields, St James's and Dover.
Water pump manufacturer of of Dorset Street, Fleet Street (now Salisbury Court, running off Fleet Street to the south), active in the 1830s.
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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Known professionally as Antony Gormley, he is a sculptor and is most famous for 'The Angel of the North' in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Almost all his work takes the human body as its subject, with h...
We've numbered the mosaics left to right. The text plaque is to the right of the curved wall, just out of sight of our camera. Chaplin ce...
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