This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Brick Kilns, Somers Town
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Somers Town Mural
This mural was commissioned by the GLC in 1980 and moved to this site by St P...
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Gas Light and Coke Company
Founded by Frederick Albert Winsor (who also gave the world's first demonstration of street lighting by coal gas). Nationalised 1949 and privatised 1986. Demerged in 1997 into Centrica plc and BG p...
Sir William Siemens
Born Germany. Electrical engineer, inventor and businessman. Came to England in 1843 with an electro-plating invention. Became naturalised British subject in 1859. Also worked with the regenerativ...
Henry Ford
American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...
Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport
Robert Owen (philanthropist)
Socialist and philanthropist, father of the Co-operative movement. Born Wales. Learned the fabric trade and in 1784 was in London working for a retailer. But he quickly moved to Manchester where he...
Person, Industry, Paranormal, Philanthropy, Social Welfare, Scotland, USA, Wales
Hilda Hewlett
Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Born Hilda Beatrice Herbert in Vauxhall. The first British woman to earn a pilot's licence, in 1911. Together with her business partner, Gustav Blondeau, she foun...
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Frederick Park
Park and Ernest Boulton were 'Fanny and Stella', the celebrated Victorian cross-dressers. Little is available about Park but see Boulton for their joint activities.
John William Waterhouse
Painter. Born Rome. A late-comer to the Pre-Raphaelite style, his subject matter was often Arthurian legend or Greek mythology. Died at his home in Hall Road.
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