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Metropolitan Works

Categories: Craft / Design

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From their website: "Metropolitan Works – now part of CassWorks – is London’s leading Creative Industries Centre, helping students, designers and manufacturers develop ideas...."

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Metropolitan Works

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Plough Lane Landmark

The artist's website has a photo of the textured surface in the studio. Our ...

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Christopher Rahere Webb

Christopher Rahere Webb

Known professionally as Christopher Webb, he was a stained glass designer. Christopher Rahere Webb was a son of Edward Alfred Webb and a nephew of Sir Aston Webb. His middle name, Rahere, refers to...

Person, Armed Forces, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Royal Carriage Department

Royal Carriage Department

The Royal Brass Foundry in Woolwich was already producing carriages as well as guns but in 1803-5 a building dedicated to carriages was constructed - see picture.  John's Military History, the sour...

Group, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Anna Maria Garthwaite

Anna Maria Garthwaite

Fabric designer. Born Leicestershire. Moved with her sister to Princes (now Princlet) Street in 1728. Many of her over 1000 designs for Spitalfield silks survive at the V&A Museum and she has b...

Person, Craft / Design

3 memorials
Spitalfields weaving industry

Spitalfields weaving industry

Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were skilled silk weavers and set up looms in their homes in Spitalfields. The Spitalfields textile trade thrived until the mi...

Concept, Commerce, Craft / Design

2 memorials

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J. Gray Buchanan

J. Gray Buchanan

President of the Hornsey Central Hospital in 1924. From St Andrew's Law Journal, concerning "The criminal prosecution in 1914 of two Glasgow businessmen, Messrs Hetherington and Wilson of William ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Duffield Sluice

Duffield Sluice

SE16, Bermondsey Wall East

The 1830 map has the Duffield Sluice marked on the river bank just to the north-west of this building, where there is now a patch of gree...

2 subjects commemorated
Elisabeth Frink

Elisabeth Frink

Sculptor.  Born Suffolk.  May be best known for a series of male heads, which all have a jaw line rather like hers.  Works in London include: Horse and Rider in Bond Street (Dover Street 1975-2018)...

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Australia House

Australia House

Home of the High Commission of Australia. Designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie and built by Dove Brothers. Construction commenced in 1913, but as many of the building materials came from Austra...

Building, Property, Australia

1 memorial
Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier

Novelist and playwright. Born at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park. Daughter of Gerald, grand-daughter of George.  She married Major Frederick Browning in 1932, and as an army wife was obliged to...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous, Theatre, Egypt

1 memorial