This company, reportedly 150 years old, had remodelled No 10 Downing Street and refurbished the Wallace Collection art gallery, but collapsed with massive debts in 2012.
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Killby & Gayford
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Shoreditch town hall extension
A report in the London North Middlesex Standard And Tottenham And Wood Green ...
St Matthias Church House
The names on this plaque are difficult to read so take our transcription as t...
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The Foundation Company Ltd
Contractors who built 55 Broadway. We found some references to a company of the same name building skyscrapers in the United States but it may be a totally different company.
1 memorial
Thanet House / Shaftesbury House
Nos. 35-38 Aldersgate Street, built by Inigo Jones. From British History Online: “formerly the London residence of the Tuftons, Earls of Thanet. From them it passed into the family of that clever a...
1 memorial
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Tudor House
There seems to be confusion between this building on St Leonard’s Street, demolished c.1900, and Bromley Hall, which is still extant on the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road. The normally very trustwo...
1 memorial
John Elger
Architect, master builder and speculative developer. Active in London and Bedford. From British History: "... a Bedford carpenter's son who had made his name in the 1820s and '30s as a speculative...
1 memorial
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South Bank mosaic - Kelly Holmes
SE1, South Bank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall / Purcell Room
These mosaics are laid in the pavement in a rather sad, out the way, corner of the South Bank, at street level, near the non-main entranc...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Totterdown Estate
This was the London County Council's first housing development. A 39 acre site south-west of Tooting Common was identified and purchased in 1900 for £44,238. The site was well placed to cater for w...
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Girton College
England's first residential college for women. Established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. Originally located at Benslow House in Hitchin as it was felt to be less controversial not t...
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Alienation Office
Under the feudal system the King owned all land and others could only hold it as the King's tenants. Transfers between tenants were known as 'alienations' and this required a licence from the King....
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Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple, village spinster detective, created by Agatha Christie. Played by many actors, including: Gracie Fields, Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and Joan Hickson.
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