Industrialist and inventor.
From Preston. Set up a factory with a newly designed method of cotton-spinning. He worked his employees, including children, very hard and became very rich.
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Sir Richard Arkwright
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Sir Richard Arkwright
Greater London Council Sir Richard Arkwright, 1732 - 1792, industrialist and...
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Brilliant Sign Company
Signage company. It was named after their concept called the 'brilliant letter'. This comprised a pressed copper sheet with a v-shaped cross section so as to imitate the classic incised wooden fasc...
2 memorials
Palmer Tyre Company
From Car History: In June 1892 John F. Palmer (American) obtained two US patents for a “thread-fabric” bicycle pneumatic tire. Shortly afterwards he moved to England; registering the Palmer Tire Co...
1 memorial
Patrick Holland
From Custom House, a stevedore at Royal Docks for 20 years, shown in the sculpture as the tally clerk.
1 memorial
Frank Pick
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2 memorials
Peter Pain
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1 memorial
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Dowding
WC2, Strand
Unveiled by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on 31 October 1988, as a Spitfire flew over.
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
E. F. Benson
SW3, Brompton Square, 25
English Heritage E. F. Benson, 1867 - 1940, writer, lived here.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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