Plaque

Dairy Supply Company - Directors

Inscription

{Above a door, on a cartouche:}
AD 1888
{on the plaque below:}
Directors: Viscount Combermere, J. C. Lawrance, QC, MP, George Barham, Secretary R. W. Shackleton
{and a monogram:}
DSCL

These panels are above a door which we guess leads to the offices above with the shop on the ground floor.

Site: Dairy Supply Company (2 memorials)

WC1, Coptic Street, 30, Pizza Express

We've long admired this building (1888 by R. P. Whellock) so we are delighted that Ian Visits posted about it and did a lot of the research on the history of the company. Suddenly we feel we can consider the lovely milk churn terracotta relief and the list of directors to be memorials. Those directors turn out to be a surprisingly interesting bunch: one invented the milk churn, one was a laughably bad High Court Judge and the third was photographed as a ghost.

2013: London Details have a good post on this building and the company.

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Dairy Supply Company Limited

Establihsed by George Barham in the late 19th century to sell milk-related th...

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Sir George Barham

Invented the milk churn and campaigned for cleaner milk. Son of a dairyman. I...

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Viscount Combermere, Wellington Stapleton-Cotton

Born Bedford. Inherited the title from his father, the first Viscount, in 186...

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John Compton Lawrance, QC, MP

High Court Judge. Came from Lincolnshire. From Plymounth Law Review we lear...

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R. W. Shackleton

Company Secretary to the Dairy Supply Company in 1888.

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Dairy Supply Company Limited

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Dairy Supply Company - churn

Dairy Supply Company - churn

{On the ribbon wrapped around the milk churn:} Dairy Supply Co Limited

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