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Tallow Chandlers Company

Tallow chandlers make candles and other products from animal fat. the Company originated as a religious fraternity. 1456 granted a coat of arms. 1462 became a Livery Company. 

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Tallow Chandlers Company

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Tallow Chandlers - Deverell-Stone

This garden was created for the Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers by Pas...

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Tallow Chandlers Hall

Tallow Chandlers Hall The Company has occupied this site since 1476. 

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Bernard Ashley

Bernard Ashley

Designer and company director. Born in Brixton. He married Laura Mountney in 1949 and together they designed and printed tea towels and scarves. The enterprise gradually expanded and eventually com...

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Birchin Lane drapers

Birchin Lane drapers

From Stow: "...Birchin Lane. . . . This lane, and the High Street, near adjoining, hath been inhabited for the most part with wealthy drapers; from Birchin Lane ... in the reign of Henry VI., had y...

Group, Commerce, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Chris Butcher

Chris Butcher

Artist blacksmith working with George James & Sons Blacksmiths.

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Mario D'Oliveira

Mario D'Oliveira

Mosaic/ceramic artist, active c. 2005.

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Wynkyn De Worde

Wynkyn De Worde

Printing pioneer. Born in Woerth, Alsace, and his modern name is a corruption of Wynkyn de Woerth so, disappointingly, his is not an example of nominative determinism, unlike Isambard Brunel.  Brou...

Person, Craft / Design, Journalism / Publishing, Netherlands

1 memorial

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Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

Experimental physicist, especially electro-magnetics (remember Faraday's Law?). Born in Newington Butts but brought up near Oxford Street. Trained as a bookbinder and here he was given tickets to s...

Person, Science, Seriously Famous

9 memorials
Trim statue

Trim statue

NW1, Euston Road, Euston Station

See the Flinders statue page for the inscription etc.

1 subject commemorated
Emily Wilberforce

Emily Wilberforce

In 1915 as Central President of the Mothers' Union she initiated the idea of a dedicated building which resulted in the opening of Mary Sumner House in 1925.  She resigned as President in 1919. Bo...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Chloe Blanche Byron

Chloe Blanche Byron

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
WW2 service men and women who trained in Walthamstow college

WW2 service men and women who trained in Walthamstow college

Thousands of service men and women trained at the Walthamstow college: 1940 RAF; 1941 army; 1942 navy.

Group, Armed Forces, Education

1 memorial