Co-founder of Pret a Manger with Julian Metcalfe, who he met at the Polytechnic of Central London.
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Sinclair Beecham
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Pret a Manger - first
The first Pret a Manger shop and kitchen was opened near here by Julian Metca...
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Galen Weston
Businessman Willard Gordon Galen Weston was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, his father being a Canadian businessman. Having studied business Weston went to Dublin and set up his own grocery store ...
Maggie Richardson
Sold flowers at "Maggie's Corner" for 60 years. This lovely evocative photo (found for us by Denis Hoare) comes from Jonnie3 at Flickr where it is captioned 'Oxfam shop, Hampstead High Street, Lon...
Petticoat Lane Market
By 1608 this street was known as Peticote Lane for the second-hand clothes, etc. which were bought and sold here, right on the boundary with the City. In about 1830 the street name was changed to M...
David Norman
Businessman and management consultant. He has held posts at many companies, and has been chairman of the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. This photo comes from the Kew A...
Person, Commerce, Dance, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
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Michael Bakunin
Revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism. Possibly the founder of anarchist theory in general. Born Russia. Well-travelled: Germany, France, Japan, London, Sweden, Sw...
WW1 memorial cross - from St John's
SW1, Hobart Place, St Peter's Church, Knightsbridge Kindergarten
The cross looks as if the church was designed to hold it, but no. St Peters was built 1824-27 and this section, by Sir Arthur Blomfield, ...
Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzman
Peruvian essayist, herald of Latin American Independence.
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