De Lank Quarries have a Wikipedia page but Hugh Shearer and Co. are more mysterious. Probably the firm that owned the quarry at the time and/or carved the monument.
2025: Mr Little confirmed our theory: The Architect Vol. 27, 1882 carried adverts promoting "Messrs Hugh Shearer and Co., the Eddystone Granite Quarries De Lank, Cornwall. Head Office: 21 Great George St. Westminster SW".
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Hugh Shearer and Co.
Ao. Di. instead of A.D. is very unusual. Fecit is Latin: 'he made it'.
Was on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Torrington Place. Designed by Fitzroy Doll.
Chairman of the Port of London Authority in 1935.
100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
Very successfully pioneered bookshops on railway stations with the business name Horace Marshall and Son. The son being Horace Brooks Marshall, Jnr. Snr. was a Commoner on the Bridge House Estates...
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