Rose growing company, founded in Yorkshire by brothers John and Robert Harkness, and still run as a family firm.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Rose growing company, founded in Yorkshire by brothers John and Robert Harkness, and still run as a family firm.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Harkness Roses
The Susan Daniel Rose Bed The roses in this flower bed are named after Susan ...
From their website: "... clay and concrete building products, building the face of Britain for over 200 years."
Clothing manufacturer and retailer. Montague Burton (1885 - 1952) was raised as Meshe David Osinsky,and emigrated from what is now Lithuania to England in 1900. He set up a business making and sell...
Businessman and management consultant. He has held posts at many companies, and has been chairman of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. This photo comes from the Kew A...
Person, Commerce, Dance, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900.
Architects. The only reference we can find to a group with this name is based in Tanzania.
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
2019: We read the splendid Legacy by Thomas Harding published by Heinemann, a history of the family that built the J. Lyons empire. Below are our notes from that reading (augmented by the Oxford Ho...
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