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Men from Whitbread & Co lost in WW1 & WW2

Categories: Food & Drink

Our picture shows the Chiswell Street brewery in the years just before WW1.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Men from Whitbread & Co lost in WW1 & WW2

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Brewery - War Memorial

This is a loosely-worded plaque. We don't think it really means ALL the men l...

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Pope’s Head Tavern

Pope’s Head Tavern

From British History:  "...'Pope's Head', mentioned as early as the reign of Edward IV. Here, in the reign of Henry VI., wine was sold at a penny a pint, without charge for bread."

Place, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial
John Kemp-Welch

John Kemp-Welch

Say what you like about estate agents, they are sometimes extremely helpful when trying to identify people of property from the past. Courtenays have published some of the history of the Clapham Ab...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Bull and George Hotel

Bull and George Hotel

Probably built sometime in the 18th century. It served as a coaching inn on the London-Dover road. Jane Austen stayed here several times whilst travelling to visit her brother in Canterbury. Quotin...

Building, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Mont Blanc restaurant

Mont Blanc restaurant

Opened sometime early in the 20th century by Alphonse Pasquier. Edward Garnett (1868-1937), an English writer and critic, fostered the careers of many literary figures by hosting weekly Tuesday lit...

Place, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Pinoli's Restaurant

Pinoli's Restaurant

Londonist tells us this restaurant was the venue chosen for the 1920 "the end-of-year dinner of the influential Hampstead branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain", watched closely by British...

Group, Food & Drink

1 memorial

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Mercers’ Maiden

Mercers’ Maiden

EC3, Corbet Court

Discovering London suggests that this might be the oldest inscription in London.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
P. S. Dee

P. S. Dee

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Voltaire

Voltaire

Born in Paris as Francois Marie Arouet. Adopted the name Voltaire aged 24. The traditional story is that the intolerance of Catholic France forced this free-thinker to escape to the land of liberty...

Person, Literature, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, France

1 memorial
Dogs killed in medical experiments in 1902

Dogs killed in medical experiments in 1902

232 dogs died in 1902 as a result of medical experiments. Wikipedia gives: "In 1875 there were around 300 experiments on animals in the UK, a figure that had risen to 19,084 in 1903 when the brown...

Animal, Animals, Medicine

2 memorials
Hanseatic merchants and 60 years of peace

Hanseatic merchants and 60 years of peace

EC4, Hanseatic Walk

Let's cover the easy bit first: The German at the end translates as “The old falls, the times are changing and new life blooms from the r...

3 subjects commemorated, 4 creators