London's first curry restaurant. Opened and run by Sake Dean Mahomed.
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Hindoostane Coffee House
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First curry house
Site of Hindoostane Coffee House 1810 London's first Indian restaurant. Owne...
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New River Head windmill
Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).
1 memorial
Swan Wharf & Swan Inn
In the 19th century Swan Wharf was the site of a brewery and public house 'Swan Inn', destroyed by fire in 1871. The image, an 1878 photo by William Reid, shows the tower of All Saints behind. Th...
1 memorial
Norwegian ice business
Ice was cut in Norway, transported by ship to London, stored and then distributed by cart to restaurants and homes. See the picture source website for a very well told story.
2 memorials
Fountains Abbey pub
Sir Alexander Fleming was a loyal regular. Legend says that it was mould spores from this ale house which blew through Fleming’s window, leading him to the discovery of Penicillin in 1928. The Fo...
1 memorial
Ralph Thrale
Son of Anne Thrale, sister of Edmund Halsey who took him into his brewery business, the Anchor Brewery. Thrale.com tells this interesting story: "When Ralph took a wife in the early 1720's, he cho...
1 memorial
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Major William Martin
See Operation Mincemeat for Major Martin's role in WW2. The body was identified in 1996 as that of Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh homeless man, but the Wikipedia page puts forward a number of other possi...
1 memorial
Frank Scarlett
Modernist architect. We can find no information about him and no image, so for our picture we show the building which is considered his masterpiece: Starlock House, Rye. 2018: We were contacted by...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Derwent Wood
Sculptor. Born Francis Derwent Wood at Eskin Place, Caslerigg, St John's, Keswick, Cumberland. His family moved to Switzerland and then Germany, where he studied and became proficient in three lang...
3 memorials
Essex House - E3
E3, Mile End Road, Onyx House
As one might guess from the tatty state of the plaque this 1985 building has had a number of names in its short life, including: Kentish ...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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