Two architects, father (1806–1884) and son (1831-1908), with the same name, James Thomas Knowles, either could have been the architect for the Shakespeare plinth.
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James Knowles
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Albert Grant & Shakespeare
"There is no darkness but ignorance" is a quote from "Twelfth Night". The scu...
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The Polygon
Polygon Road was the site of The Polygon - a fifteen sided building of 32 houses situated around a garden. William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft lived at No 29 for a time and their daughter, later...
1 memorial
Anthony Salvin
Architect. Born County Durham. Moved to London in 1821. Expert on medieval buildings, restoring many country houses and castles and so worked on only a few buildings in London. Wikipedia has an ext...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Alfred Cross
Architect. Born Alfred William Stephens Cross in Blackheath. 1889-99 he was in a partnership with Henry Spalding. He specialised in designs for public baths. Died London. Information from Manchest...
1 memorial
Harryram Rambissoon
We are grateful to Rambissoon’s daughter, Meera, who told us that her father designed the plaque. She writes: “He was an architect for London Underground. He was passionate about design and transpo...
1 memorial
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John H. Morgan
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Fm.John Victor Appleby
Fireman killed in the Dudgeon's Wharf explosion. Andrew Behan has researched Appleby: Fireman John Victor Appleby was born on 20 June 1946 and his birth was registered in Poplar. He was the son of...
3 memorials
Giles Shepard
Managing Director of the Savoy Group in 1979 - 1994.
1 memorial
Kindersley Workshop
From the Workshop's website: "David Kindersley {1915–1995}, lettercutter, sculptor and inventor, started his workshop near Cambridge in 1946, having been apprenticed to Eric Gill. He was joined in ...
1 memorial
Grosvenor Hotel - head 13
SW1, Buckingham Palace Road, Grosvenor Hotel
This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...
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