Person    | Male  Born 23/11/1878  Died 7/11/1941

Frank Pick

Categories: Art, Industry

Pioneer of good design for London Transport. Born Lincolnshire. Click on the picture source web site for more information.

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Frank Pick

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Frank Pick

Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans.

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Frank Pick at Piccadilly Circus

Unveiled 7 November 2016 to mark the 75th anniversary of Pick’s death and the...

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Central School of Arts and Crafts

Central School of Arts and Crafts

Inspired by the School of Handicraft, this college, founded by William Lethaby, merged with St Martin's School of Art, founded in 1854, to form Central St Martins in 1989. Other colleges have merge...

Group, Art, Craft / Design, Education

1 memorial
Sir Ambrose Fleming

Sir Ambrose Fleming

Electrical engineer. Born John Ambrose Fleming in a house named Greenfield in Lancaster. Best known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube. He was also an accomplished photographer...

Person, Art, Engineering, Photography

1 memorial
Nicholas Revett

Nicholas Revett

Architect. Born in Framlingham, Suffolk. He went to Rome in 1742 to study under Marco Benefiale. In 1750 he travelled to Athens with James Stuart to record the antiquities. He incorporated some of ...

Person, Architecture, Art, Greece, Italy

1 memorial
George Lookwood (Slim of Peckham)

George Lookwood (Slim of Peckham)

Mosaic artist active in 2007.

Person, Art

1 memorial
Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was an artist who travelled to Italy, Switzerland ,France and England where in 1811 he gained admittance...

Person, Art, Science, France, Italy, Switzerland, USA

1 memorial

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Charles Cruft

Charles Cruft

Dog show promoter. Worked as a travelling salesman for Spratt's. His first dog show was run in 1878 at the request of the French breeders at the Paris Exhibition. There followed some more on beh...

Person, Animals

1 memorial