Created by William and Gilbert Foyle. See William for more information. For more on old London bookshops see Spitalfields Life.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Foyles bookshop
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Foyles - David Attenborough
The most ferocious thing I have ever encountered in any trip abroad is not a ...
Foyles - William Foyle
Lord Justice Darling was in the shop. He offered me 4 shillings for a book m...
Other Subjects
Sir Joseph Lyons
Sir Joseph Nathaniel Lyons was a pioneer of mass catering. Chairman of J. Lyons and Co. Born Kennington,his father being a Jewish itinerant watch seller. Joseph was apprenticed to an optician. Mov...
1 memorial
John Farrell
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912.
1 memorial
Anderton's Hotel
In the fifteenth century this was the Horn tavern. In the early seventeenth century the hotel was popular with the legal community. A new building was erected in 1880, probably the one in this phot...
1 memorial
Henry Ford
American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...
Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport
1 memorial
Previously viewed
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Elizabeth Dun
Lived in Royal Crescent, 1972 - 1995. From The Kensington Society Annual Report 1975-6: "Our gratitude ... to Miss Elizabeth Dun and her sister, Mavis, for a gift of garden equipment in memory of ...
1 memorial
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