A beekeeper and founder of Pearly Queen Honey, London. Interview. Grew up in Manchester.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Meetal Patel
Commemorated ati
Meetal Patel
Erected between May 2019 when Google Streetview does not show it and our visi...
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Rose and Crown, Wimbledon
From Wimbledon Heritage Map: "part 17C, late 18C early 19C public house, note multi pane sash windows; recently sympathetically extended".
Mangrove Restaurant
At 8 All Saints Road, Notting Hill. Created and owned for 24 years by Crichlow. It was a centre for political and social activism within the African and Caribbean culture. Visitors included: Jim...
Place, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Race Issues
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
Finlays
From Finlays we learn that: James Finlay (d. 1790) began his career in Glasgow in the family textile business selling cotton goods. He moved into embroidered muslins and also manufacture. His son K...
Group, Commerce, Food & Drink, Gardens / Agriculture, Africa, Scotland, Sri Lanka
Peacock Inn, Islington
From Islington Council:"Four inns are known to have occupied this site, with the earliest dating from 1564. The Peacock has been immortalised both in print and on canvas. In 1823, James Pollard pai...
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1 Poultry - Loriners' Trade
EC2, Poultry, 1
This plaque is presumably based on some early references to loriners working at this location.
George Cartwright VC
SW1, Sloane Square
Believed to be the first war memorial erected on a public highway. At first sight just a simple stone cross on a plinth, but the whole ba...
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Clarendon Arch - 1786
N21, Bush Hill
Clarendon Arch is the oldest surviving structure on the New River, but our visit was spoilt by the gate being locked. Thus: our poor pho...
Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons
WC2, Lincoln's Inn Fields
This Oak tree (Quercus robur) was planted by Barry Jackson, President, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, to commemorate the Bicen...
Sir William Barlow
Born Oldham. At various times Chair of the Post Office, BICC, etc. President of The Royal Academy of Engineering 1991-96. Our picture source outlines his career. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, infor...
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