Group    From 1849  To /1/1996

LEP Transport Ltd

Categories: Commerce, Transport

From COSGB: "LEP Transport was a freight company established in 1910 in London. The company name was derived from the initials of the three founding partners; Longstaff, Ehrenberg and Pollack."  More information at COSGB.

Agility Logistic’s history page traces their origins back to 1849 when LEP was formed in Le Havre.  The London office was opened 2 years later.  The story is told, with pictures until, “after a management buy-out in January 1996. International Logistics of Chicago, USA, takes a majority shareholding in LEP International (Worldwide) Ltd.”

LEP moved their head office into Sunlight Wharf in 1922.

More pictures at LEP history.

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LEP Transport Ltd

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Sunlight Wharf

This site was previously called Sunlight Wharf, where the last working crane ...

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Great fire of Tooley Street

Great fire of Tooley Street

From the picture source website: "The fire started in consignment of jute stored at Scovell's warehouse at Cotton's Wharf. This was the biggest of all the peacetime fires in the port: it raged for ...

Event, Armed Forces, Commerce, Tragedy

2 memorials
Burtons Menswear

Burtons Menswear

Clothing manufacturer and retailer. Montague Burton (1885 - 1952) was raised as Meshe David Osinsky,and emigrated from what is now Lithuania to England in 1900. He set up a business making and sell...

Group, Commerce

11 memorials
British Empire League

British Empire League

Formed in London with the purpose of promoting trade, communication, defence, etc. between the UK and the various colonies and India. We can find little information about the BEL; it may even stil...

Group, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Portman Market

Portman Market

From UCL "{J. T.} Parkinson ... designed the new part-covered Portman Market for hay, fruit, vegetables, meat, and also pigs, erected in 1829–30 in Church Street off Edgware Road. Run by the agent ...

Place, Commerce

1 memorial

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Samuel Crispe

Samuel Crispe

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Fusilier Geoffrey Frederick Allen

Fusilier Geoffrey Frederick Allen

Fusilier Geoffrey Frederick Allen was born on 30 June 1933 in Ambergate, Amber Valley Borough, Derbyshire. He was serving in D Company of the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regimen...

Person

War dead, Other war
1 memorial
donkeys of Covent Garden

donkeys of Covent Garden

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."

Animal, Commerce, Animals

1 memorial
Mayor's and City of London Courts

Mayor's and City of London Courts

A county court in the City of London, which is the successor to courts pre-dating the County Courts Act of 1846, which introduced the modern system of county courts. Under the Courts Act of 1971, i...

Place, Law

1 memorial