Erection date: 1995
The plaque shows a detail from a design for the silk fabric produced in Spitalfields. We believe the design shows a pomegranate in the Jacobean style, popular in the 18th century. One very successful designer was Garthwaite, who lived and worked one street to the north.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Fournier Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Silk Design (A)
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were s...
Fabric designer. Born Leicestershire. Moved with her sister to Princes (now P...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Silk Design (A)
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
Frederick George Creed, 1871 - 1957, electrical engineer, inventor of the teleprinter, lived and died here. Greater London Council
The University has a grainy film of the ceremony when this stone was unveiled. It was a very grand occasion, attended by 3,000 people in...
The Official Gracie Fields has some interesting information and photos about this house when Gracie was living there.
The plaque on the brick wall in the picture reads: The BBC Star Terrace, "Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" Sylvie Dee. De...
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
Marcus Garvey, 1887 - 1940, Pan-Africanist leader, lived and died here. L.C.C.
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
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