Foundry opened in Eccleston Street, Pimlico.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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H. Young & Co.
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Cleopatra's needle
Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, th...
Derby statue
The relief panels, by Montford, on the four sides of the plinth show scenes f...
Thomas Carlyle statue
{Front of plinth:} Thomas Carlyle B Dec 4 1795 at Ecclefechan Dumfriesshire ...
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Royal Doulton / Doulton Potteries
Ceramic manufacturing company. Began with a factory at Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. Initially a partnership of John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts, Jones left in 1820 leaving the company name as ...
39 memorials
Samuel Courtauld
Industrialist and art collector. 1932 founded The Courtauld Institute of Art. Managed the family textile firm as a director from 1908, and as chair 1921-46. Served twice as chair of the Trustees ...
1 memorial
International Maritime Organisation
Part of the UN, the IMO has its HQ in London (we do like our initials). Always based in London, it began as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation in Chancery Lane, moved to 22 ...
1 memorial
Hilda Hewlett
Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Born Hilda Beatrice Herbert in Vauxhall. The first British woman to earn a pilot's licence, in 1911. Together with her business partner, Gustav Blondeau, she foun...
1 memorial
Richard Cobden
Political economist and Liberal MP. Born near Midhurst, Sussex, into a large and very poor family. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Spoke repeatedly to Parliament against war with...
5 memorials
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City Pest House
EC1, Bath Street
Historic Site City Pesthouse. Built here in open fields 1593. Used during the Great Plague 1665. Demolished 1736. London Borough of ...
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1 creator
Stoke Newington Town Hall
Designed by the architect J. Reginald Truelove in the art deco style. Its assembly hall became popular with a variety of entertainments. In 1965 Stoke Newington was absorbed into the Borough of Hac...
1 memorial
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...
4 memorials
Great Exhibition
From the V&A website: "The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. It was the first international exhibition of manufacture...
13 memorials
Horace Montford
Sculptor, at one time assistant to Matthew Noble. Born Shrewsbury. Father to Paul.
1 memorial
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