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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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
New River Company
See the New River for an explanation of why the New River Company came into being. Puzzled why the Company should have been so involved in rebuilding after war damage we found the explanation at A...
6 memorials
Frank Pick
Pioneer of good design for London Transport. Born Lincolnshire. Click on the picture source web site for more information.
2 memorials
Albion Mills
Corn mill built by Matthew Boulton, James Watt and John Rennie. Rennie moved from Scotland to London when invited to work on the construction of these Mills. Burnt down in 1791 and Spitalfields L...
1 memorial
James Leathart
Born Alston, Cumberland. Lead manufacturer and art collector. He worked for the company of Locke, Blackett & Co. In Newcastle for most of his career, eventually becoming sole managing partner. ...
1 memorial
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John Marshall
Native of Stamford in Lincolnshire. A white-baker who lived in a mansion house in Axe Yard, Southwark (now Newcomen Street), where his father, also a white-baker had lived before him. Widowered an...
1 memorial
Emma Cons - W1
W1, Seymour Place, Walmer Castle, 136 Walmer House
Cons was not herself wealthy so it seems odd to describe her as a philanthropist, and the plaque has her birth year wrong, according to t...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Alice Ball
From LSHTM: "... African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract which became the treatment for leprosy until the 1940s. While chaulmoogra oil had previously been used for leprosy,...
1 memorial