The second largest supermarket chain in the U.K. Founded by John James Sainsbury at 173 Drury Lane. In June 2015, the group comprised 1,312 branches and convenience stores.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Ladbroke Grove rail disaster - plaques
The plaques are located on a wall overlooking the site of the disaster. Unfor...
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garment and textile industries in the East End
The origins of the East End textile industry can be traced to the 14th century when Flemish artisans set up dye works on the River Lea. In the late 17th century the Huguenots arrived in Spitalfield...
4 memorials
First Pizza Express
Founded in 1965 by Peter Boizot, Pizza Express opened its first restaurant in Wardour Street. Inspired by a trip to Italy, Boizot brought back to London a pizza oven from Naples and a chef from Sic...
1 memorial
David Greig
A chain of grocery shops across north London. Faded London have more details and some photos of a splendid shop in Atlantic Road SW9.
3 memorials
Fred L. Turner
Businessman. Developed the McDonald's hamburger brand.
1 memorial
Carter and Company / Poole Pottery
Ceramic tile manufacturers. Founded by Jesse Carter, a builders’ merchant and ironmonger from Surrey. It was later renamed as the Poole Pottery. The Carter company produced much of the ceramic til...
3 memorials
Previously viewed
Carlton House / Salisbury Club
The house and gardens of what is now 694a High Road E11 have had a complicated series of uses which we have not bottomed out. The house and/or either of the two buildings in the front garden and/or...
Group, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games
1 memorial
Sloane Court East bomb - pavement plaque
SW1, Turk's Row
Refer to Sloane Court East V1 bomb for info about the event. The number of dead is not accurate on either plaque. At the time the death t...
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Fortune Theatre - WC2
Designed by Ernest Schaufelberg, this was the first London theatre to be built after the end of WW1, and one of the first buildings in London to to use ferro-concrete construction. Built on the sit...
2 memorials
Silvie Jacobi
Mosaic artist, teacher and administrator, working with Southbank Mosaics since 2007.
3 memorials
William Hogarth
Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...
12 memorials
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