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
William Fortnum
The records of the founders of Fortnum and Mason are not too clear. In 1707 a William Fortnum is said to have become a footman to Queen Anne and at about the same time to have founded a grocery bus...
William Strahan
The Aldersgate printer of John Wesley's Journal. Born Edinburgh. Also printed the works of Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon.
Person, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Religion, Scotland
Robert Horner
Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Essex, worked in the market and managed to buy the lease in 1875. Forced to sell to the City of London in 1920.
Stocks Market
The Stocks Market was where fishmongers and butchers sold their victuals. It took its name from a pair of stocks erected there in 1281 for the punishment of offenders. In 1738 the Mansion House was...
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society
Retailer. Originally established as the Royal Arsenal Supply Association, by twenty workers from the Royal Arsenal. It was renamed in 1872, and expanded from just being a food retailer, into a vast...
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Institution of Civil Engineers
The professional institution for civil engineers, with members in the UK and many other countries. Founded by Henry Robinson Palmer, James Jones and Joshua Field. Its first president was Thomas Tel...
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...
Northern Outfall Sewer - Dace Road
E3, Dace Road/Wick Lane
Northern Outfall Sewer, part of London's main drainage system, constructed mid 19th century by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, engineer of the Met...
Reform League
A group who campaigned for adult male suffrage, at the time limited to adult males who rented propertied land of a certain value. The Reform Act of 1867 (the Second Reform Act) largely gave them w...
Sir Barnes Wallis
Designer and engineer. Born Barnes Neville Wallis in Ripley, Derbyshire. He was employed by Vickers for most of his working life and designed part of the R100 airship. His most famous achievement w...
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