This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Port of London Authority
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King George V Silver Jubilee
The shield (showing the Port of London seal) above the text is surmounted by ...
Teddington Lock - 1858
We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it ex...
Virginia Settlers Memorial
This voyage took place 16 years before the Mayflower. The memorial has a his...
Other Subjects
Richard Budd
Born Brixton. Worked in the stock exchange. Father to Henry Budd and lived with Henry's family at 35 Russell Square. Died Tunbridge Wells. Originally buried at St Botolph, Bishopsgate but was moved...
Cornhill market
Cornhill was apparently the only market allowed to be held after noon in the 14th century. Â Stow reports Cornhill holding a corn-market (not surprisingly) but also old clothes being sold there.
W. H. Smiths
Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna opened a small newsvendors in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street. HW and then Anna died, and their sons took over, renaming the business after one of them, William...
Peter the Great Company of St Petersburg
We can find nothing about this but guess it is some offshoot of the Russian embassy.
Prudential Assurance
Founded in Hatton Garden in May 1848 as The Prudential, Investment, Loan, and Assurance Association. The army of premium collection agents was for many years identified with the Prudential as the "...