Builders of Westminster.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Notting Hill Housing Trust
A social enterprise and charity providing affordable housing for Londoners. It was founded by Bruce Kenrick who had moved to Notting Hill in 1963 (which was then a far cry from the desirable area i...
2 memorials
Ibstock Building Products Ltd
From their website: "... clay and concrete building products, building the face of Britain for over 200 years."
1 memorial
Killby & Gayford
This company, reportedly 150 years old, had remodelled No 10 Downing Street and refurbished the Wallace Collection art gallery, but collapsed with massive debts in 2012.
2 memorials
Fawcett house in Vauxhall
From Friends of Vauxhall Park: "In 1725 Edward Lovibond of St James, Clerkenwell, bought the Carroun estate. The Lovibonds let part of the estate, subsequently known as The Lawn, to James Gubbins a...
1 memorial
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St Clement Danes Parish House
WC2, Portugal Street
The St Clement Danes Church referred to is the one in the middle of the Strand to the east of the Aldwych. Clare Market used to be a food...
1 subject commemorated,
11 creators
Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD
Financier and horticulturalist. He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née B...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
Born Vienna, educated England, granted English citizenship 1865. Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland (a member of the royal household in Scotland) 1881 - 1890. Best known for the head of Queen Victor...
15 memorials
Matthew Noble
Sculptor. Born Yorkshire. If the National Portrait Gallery collection is anything to go by Noble specialised in portrait busts.
9 memorials
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