Person    | Male  Born 16/1/1932  Died 14/12/2010

Robert E. Rhea

Categories: Commerce, Food & Drink

Countries: USA

Businessman. Born in Aurora, Illinois. Responsible for developing the McDonald's hamburger empire abroad.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Robert E. Rhea

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McDonald's Restaurants

{Beneath the McDonald's 'Golden Arches' logo:} 3000 We dedicate the opening o...

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Brabant weavers

Brabant weavers

The Brabant describes a part of the low countries to the east of Flanders.  Weavers had come to England from the Brabant and Flanders during the 12th century.

Group, Commerce, Craft / Design, Belgium, Netherlands

1 memorial
Turk's Head - Wapping

Turk's Head - Wapping

This entry discusses two pubs in Wapping, both called the Turk's Head. The Turk's Head in Wapping High Street is said to be the pub where condemned men, on their way to Execution Dock, were given ...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs

2 memorials
The Worshipful Company of Loriners

The Worshipful Company of Loriners

Loriners make and sell bits, bridles, spurs, stirrups, saddle trees and the minor metal items of a horse's harness. The company was incorporated in 1711. Women were not admitted until 1989 - bette...

Group, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds

2 memorials
Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

1292 -  first reference to ‘Free Fruiterers’.  First charter in 1606.  Their shield shows Adam and Eve with that first piece of fruit.

Group, Commerce, Liveries & Guilds

5 memorials
Leadenhall Market

Leadenhall Market

The meat and fish Market first occupied a series of courts, behind the grand lead-roofed city mansion of Nevill House on Leadenhall Street, in the 14th Century. As early as 1321 it was an establis...

Place, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial

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Sir Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen

SW7, Hyde Park Gate, 22

London County Council Sir Leslie Stephen, 1832-1904, scholar and writer lived here.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
R. F. MacKie

R. F. MacKie

N6, Kiln Lane, 1-6

Plaque actually in Winchester Terrace.

1 subject commemorated
Ugo Foscolo

Ugo Foscolo

Poet and patriot. Born Niccolò Foscolo on the island of Zakynthos, which was then part of the Republic of Venice (now Greece). His writings include 'Letters of Ortis' and the poem ' I Sepolcri'. Wh...

Person, Nationalism, Poetry, Greece, Italy

1 memorial
William Wilberforce - SW1

William Wilberforce - SW1

SW1, Cadogan Place, 44

William Wilberforce, 1759 - 1833, opponent of slavery, died here. London County Council

2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator