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Thomas Earnshaw
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business...
Covent Garden Jubilee Market Hall
The original Jubilee Market, to the left of this Jubilee Market Hall, was erected in 1904.
J. T. Pedder
John Thomas Pedder was born in 1823 in Romford, Essex, the second of the eighteen children of Daniel Pedder (1799-1876) and Mary Ann Pedder née Dunnings (1801-1869). His father was a leather currie...
John Stephen
Founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960s. From Glasgow. The V&A hold his archive.
County Fire Office
An insurance organisation launched by Barber Beaumont in 1807. Beaumont was the managing director and within 20 years it was the fifth largest fire insurer in Britain. Source: Oxford Dictionary of...
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