Local furniture maker.
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Phil Baines
Philip Andrew Baines was a graphic designer. Hagg Bridge has an interesting interview with Baines about his work on the 7 July memorial. Guardian obituary.
Powderhall Bronze
From the website: "We offer a full Consultancy and Production Service taking original artwork through from production to installation on site." Based in Edinburgh.
Bernard Schmidt
Organ builder. Born Germany. Came to England in about 1660. Known as Father Smith.
E. J. Parlanti
Bronze founder. Ercole Felipo Giacomo Parlanti was born in Rome. He and his older brother Alessandro worked at the Nelli foundry in Rome before moving to London. His 3 children were born in Fulham....
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Chiswick National School
Much of the following information comes from the very helpful Gill Clegg's Chiswick History page. 1707 a charity school was founded at St Nicholas church near the river. It expanded until in 1813 ...
Alfred Thomas Layton, JP
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
John Dickens
Father of Charles Dickens, was imprisoned in Marshalsea for debt from February to March (or May, according to Wikipedia) 1824. His wife Elizabeth and 4 youngest children joined him. It was only the...
Eric Newton
Artist, writer, broadcaster and art critic. He produced several books in addition to his newspaper and radio work. His radio broadcasts made him well known to the British public in the 1930s. Art c...