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Foyles bookshop

Categories: Commerce

Created by William and Gilbert Foyle. See William for more information. For more on old London bookshops see Spitalfields Life.

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Foyles bookshop

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Foyles - David Attenborough

The most ferocious thing I have ever encountered in any trip abroad is not a ...

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Foyles - William Foyle

Lord Justice Darling was in the shop. He offered me 4 shillings for a book m...

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Walter Scrimgeour

Walter Scrimgeour

Extremely rich stockbroker. He bought Parkfield from his brother-in-law, Alan Block, when his own home at nearby no. 6 The Grove became too small for his eight children. He then bought the neighbou...

Person, Commerce

1 memorial
Smithfield Poultry Market

Smithfield Poultry Market

The original poultry market by Horace Jones was opened in 1875 but destroyed by fire in 1958. Our page for that fire has an image of the original building. The new building has a concrete elliptic...

Event, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Galen Weston

Galen Weston

Businessman Willard Gordon Galen Weston was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, his father being a Canadian businessman. Having studied business Weston went to Dublin and set up his own grocery store ...

Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Canada, Ireland

1 memorial
Catholic Building Society

Catholic Building Society

Started by Vincent Byrne and the Hon. Nona Byrne at 49 Harrington Road. 1966 moved to Great Peter Street, Westminster. 1972 moved to Strutton Ground, occupying a number of buildings at different ti...

Group, Commerce

1 memorial

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Bankers Clearing House

Bankers Clearing House

Cheque & Credit Clearing Company (or, in the form of a booklet) is very helpful: "Daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when the bank clerks met at the Five Bells, a tavern in Lombard Street...

Building, Commerce

7 memorials