Our picture shows the Chiswell Street brewery in the years just before WW1.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Men from Whitbread & Co lost in WW1 & WW2
Commemorated ati
Brewery - War Memorial
This is a loosely-worded plaque. We don't think it really means ALL the men l...
Other Subjects
Carlo Gatti
Cafe owner and ice-dealer. Born Switzerland. Arrived in England in July 1847. Built up a French-style cafe business. In the 1850s he became the first seller of ice-cream to the masses. He had owned...
1 memorial
Black Eagle Brewery
The name was taken from the street on the north of the site, Black Eagle Street, now the east-west section of Dray Walk. A Truman took over the business in 1679 and the business expanded. 1789 it w...
1 memorial
First pub outside Ireland to have bottled Guinness
The Tipperary pub, Fleet Street, was the first pub outside Ireland to have bottled Guinness and later draft.
1 memorial
Columbia Market
In 1852, the area Novia Scotia Gardens being a notorious slum, Angela Burdett-Coutts bought it with the intention of developing healthy accommodation for the poor and a market for their use. Howeve...
2 memorials
Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in London and to provide accomodation to pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, in particular Chaucer's pilgrims, who set off...
1 memorial