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...
LCC Sir Julius Benedict (1804 - 1885), musical composer, lived and died here.
William F. Brown, Bishop of Pellla, born 1862, died 1951.
This is a really horrible road, noisy with polluted air in an area we don't know well. We took our photos and looked at the map on our ph...
The plaques are around the station forecourt, either on frames or laid into the pavement. The gold lettering on the marble effect on the ...
{Next to an image of the Virgin Mary:} Shrine of Our Lady of Hal The catholic church in Camden Town is the site for the English shrine to...
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