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...
Sir Fabian Ware, 1869 - 1949, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission, lived here 1911 - 1919. English Heritage
Westminster City Council Tony Ray-Jones, photographer, 1941 - 1972, lived and worked here. Royal Photographic Society
Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans. 2020: This house was up for sale and the estate agents noted that Ashf...
2022: London World reported that this double-plaque house was for sale.
Almost all of the lettering (lead letters pinned into stone) has dropped off, or been taken off, so most of the names are illegible - the...
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