The origins of the East End textile industry can be traced to the 14th century when Flemish artisans set up dye works on the River Lea. In the late 17th century the Huguenots arrived in Spitalfields bringing their skills with silk-weaving, lace-making, fan-making, etc. Then the Jewish tailors arrived and enriched the area further.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
garment and textile industries in the East End
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Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane north
We failed to find this plaque in Dec-Jan 2017, but it is identical to that fu...
Bowler plaque - Scissors and Buttons - Brick Lane south
There is meant to be another identical plaque further north in Brick Lane but...
Bowler plaque - Shuttle and Bobbins
The plaque shows a shuttle and two bobbins, representing the local weaving tr...
Whitechapel Threads sculpture
The artists worked with the Rope Makers Guild to produce this image of two sk...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Tata Consumer Products
From their website: "Tata Consumer was formed with a vision to synergise, simplify and scale the principal consumer products interests of the Tata Group under one umbrella Today, we are one of the ...
1 memorial
Ibstock Building Products Ltd
From their website: "... clay and concrete building products, building the face of Britain for over 200 years."
1 memorial
Walter T. Davis
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912. The Royal Collection Trust hold "The History of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative S...
1 memorial
John Payton
A local business man, he had the vision to create Camden Passage antiques market in the early 1960s. We can't prove that he was also a sculptor but his surname is inscribed on the Cruden relief bus...
1 memorial
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Lance Corporal Charles William Jackman
Charles William Jackman was born on 16 November 1912, the elder son of Charles Jackman (1881-1937) and Marion Frances Jackman née Barnard (1888-1937), his birth being registered in the 4th quarter ...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Adrianna Skryzypiec
SE10, Woolwich Road
She died from multiple injuries and the lorry driver claimed he was unaware he had even hit her. So the case was dropped and he suffered ...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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