Architect. Worked out of Lombard Street. Also built, in 1898, the Pigeons Hotel, Romford Road in Stratford, now converted to residential.
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Henry Poston
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Earl of Essex pub
{Carved low on one of the black piers:} Erected for Joseph Hill Esqre. Corona...
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Sir Horace Jones
Architect. Born 15 Size Lane, Bucklersbury, EC4. Did a lot of work in the City, at Guildhall and Smithfield, Billingsgate, Leadenhall Markets, the Guildhall School of Music, Tower Bridge. President...
F. M. Elgood
Architect. Other London work: 8-10 Wigmore Street - 1896 and 34 Weymouth Street - 1908. 1904-17 a member of the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council, on which he served as chairman.
Walter H. Godfrey
Walter Hindes Godfrey was born on 2 August 1881, the eldest of the six children of Walter Scott Godfrey (1855-1936) and Gertrude Annie Godfrey née Rendall (1855-1922). His birth was registered in t...
Sir Herbert Baker
Architect. Born and brought up in Kent, trained as an architect in London. 1892 went to South Africa where he gained many important commissions. During a brief return to Britain in 1904 he married....
James Gibbs
Architect, pupil of Wren. Born Aberdeen. Died at home in Henrietta Street. Buried at old parish Church of St Marylebone.
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Booker Prize
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War Savings Campaign
Second World War gives a good description of the story behind these plaques. Each year the fundraising was given a different focus: Communities would have a fund-raising committee which worked wi...
War memorial St Mary Magdelene - Paddington
W2, Rowington Close
Most war memorials at churches make some reference to 'members of this parish who fell' or have a list of the dead, or those who served. ...
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
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