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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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James Purdey the younger

James Purdey the younger

Gunmaker, built premises in 1880 to house his new showrooms and workshops, James Purdey & Sons Ltd. The Picture Source website has a short on-line history and also informs about a book on the s...

Person, Commerce, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Omar Ramsden

Omar Ramsden

Silversmith.  Born Sheffield but spent some of his childhood in America.  Had studios in Chelsea and then Fulham, with a staff of up to 20.  He was a designer and businessman.  There's a suggestion...

Person, Craft / Design, Sculpture, USA

1 memorial
Simon Kidd

Simon Kidd

Local furniture maker.

Person, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Paul Bommer

Paul Bommer

Professional freelance illustrator & graphic designer based in London’s East End. His website.

Person, Art, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Essex House - E3

Essex House - E3

In 1891 C. R. Ashbee moved the workshops of the Guild of Handicraft from 34 Commercial Street to Essex House, at 401 Mile End Road, an early eighteenth-century mansion. The guild prospered at Essex...

Building, Craft / Design, Property

1 memorial

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Tobias George Smollett

Tobias George Smollett

Born Dalquhurn (now part of Renton) Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Poet and author of novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle which supposedly influenced ...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Italy, Scotland

1 memorial
Andrew Whittle

Andrew Whittle

Lettering artist.  Born Weymouth.  Inspired by the work of David Kindersley (father of Richard) in the early 80s.  Worked for many years with the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. Carves lettering in man...

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Oscar Nemon

Oscar Nemon

Born in what is now Croatia. Worked in Vienna and Brussels and settled in Britain in 1938. Specialised in Winston Churchill. Our picture shows Nemon with a self-portrait: now that sculpture we woul...

Person, Sculpture, Yugoslavia

4 memorials
Thomas Britton

Thomas Britton

Held weekly concerts over his coal merchant's shop in Jerusalem Passage, from 1678. Important composers such as Pepusch and, it is also rumoured, Handel, paid visits to his musical evenings.Popular...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Norwood

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Norwood

SE25, Dagnall Park, 30

This was the first plaque erected to a black person, in 1975.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator