Retail group specialising in clothing and food, founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer. There are currently over 700 branches in the U.K. and more than 300 spread over thirty other countries.
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Marks and Spencer
Plaque unveiled by Heidi Alexander, M.P. for Lewisham East, and Councillor Al...
This brass plaque on the pavement had become badly worn and a new one was ere...
Director of the Brilliant Sign Company in 1938.
The first district heating system built in the UK, with the UK's largest thermal store, the accumulator. It supplies heat to 3,256 homes, 50 business premises and three schools. Owned and managed b...
The company was founded as a manufacturer of guns made in Shotley Bridge, County Durham, by Henry Nock in London when he opened premises in Ludgate Hill. 1804, James Nock was appointed Gun Maker to...
The Aldersgate printer of John Wesley's Journal. Born Edinburgh. Also printed the works of Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon.
Person, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Religion, Scotland
The house was built on the site of the, supposedly holy, Bagnigge Wells (mineral springs) in 1678. Nell Gwynne was supposed to have lived in this house. The picture shows the house c. 1790. In th...
Killed in the Dulwich Library air raid aged 29. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Walter Robert Stacey was born on 13 February 1911 in Walworth, the eldest child of Walter...
London borough formed by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Sutton and Cheam, with the Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington and Carshalton Urban District which had previously been par...
Composer, pianist and entertainer. Born Donald Ibrahim Swann at 27 Coleshill Terrace, Llanelli, Wales. His mother was a Muslim Azerbaijani. He is best remembered for his partnership with Michael Fl...
In the 1966 Football World Cup on 30 July, England beat Germany and the whole country went football crazy. This statue recreates an even...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861, poet, lived in a house on this site, 1838 - 1846.
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