Builders active in 1885.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
M. A. Palmer & Co
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Old Town Hall Stratford - 1885 extension
Town Hall Extension, 1885. George Rivett, Esq., Chairman of the Local Board. ...
West Ham court house - 1884 construction
This stone was laid by George Rivett, Esqre. chairman of the West Ham Local B...
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Spedan Tower(s)
The house was bought by John Lewis in the late 1880s. Apparently, whilst looking for a new home for his young family, he hired a hansom cab and drove out in a different direction each day with his ...
George Myers
Master builder, Born Kingston upon Hull, where, after training he set up a building business and began working with Augustus Pugin. He followed Pugin to London and constructed many of his buildings...
52 Tavistock Square
Lived in by Leonard and Virginia Woolf 1924-39. Our picture source also has some photos of the interior, and explains that, even though they have moved out, the destruction of this house affected V...
P&O office 122 Leadenhall Street
In 1848 P&O moved into their new purpose-built offices at no. 122, designed by Beachcroft. In P&O soon bought numbers 123, 124 and 125 Leadenhall Street and expanded their building, also ad...
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Hackney Council
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, all three of which had been created in 1900. Previously they had been paris...
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1852-54.
Edith Louisa Cavell
Edith Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston in Norfolk. At the age of 20 she entered the nursing profession, training at the London Hospital 1896 - 1901. Assistant Matron at the Shoredit...
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