Born Newcastle. Armaments manufacturer and industrialist. Developed the hydraulic accumulator.
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William George Armstrong
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Hydraulic power
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Matchgirls' strike
A strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory. Annie Besant had published an article about the poor working conditions at the factory, 'White Slavery in London'. Thi...
5 memorials
garment and textile industries in the East End
The origins of the East End textile industry can be traced to the 14th century when Flemish artisans set up dye works on the River Lea. In the late 17th century the Huguenots arrived in Spitalfield...
4 memorials
Sir Henry Wellcome
Born Wisconsin, USA, moved to London in 1880 for business reasons. Pharmacist, founder of the Wellcome Trust and Foundation. His collection of books & artefacts relating to the history of medic...
Person, Benefactor, Industry, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, USA
1 memorial
9 memorials
Peter Pain
A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minister were killed by a massive gunpowder explosion at the Temple Mills in Leyton in 1690. Wikipedia puts the explosion "on ...
1 memorial
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Holloway Brothers
A major construction firm with its own Wikipedia page. Henry Thomas Holloway and Henry Holloway based in Battersea. Later other brothers joined. Our picture shows a house they built in 6 days insid...
3 memorials
Leysian Mission
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
8 memorials
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