This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Brick Kilns, Somers Town
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Somers Town Mural
This mural was commissioned by the GLC in 1980 and moved to this site by St P...
Other Subjects
Patrick Holland
From Custom House, a stevedore at Royal Docks for 20 years, shown in the sculpture as the tally clerk.
Brilliant Sign Company
Signage company. It was named after their concept called the 'brilliant letter'. This comprised a pressed copper sheet with a v-shaped cross section so as to imitate the classic incised wooden fasc...
Alfred Beit
Co-founder and funder (with Sir Julius Wernher) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Hamburg, learnt the diamond trade in Amsterdam and went to Kimberley where he met Wernher and Cecil Rhod...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Africa, Germany, South Africa
Samuel Palmer
1857 joined his brother, George, in the family biscuit firm, Huntley and Palmers, based in Reading. Ran the London office and lived with his family in Hampstead in a house close to the site of the ...
Woolf Joel
Born Spitalfields. South African mining magnate and businessman. The web provides the following anecdote: Early in 1898, just before leaving for South Africa, Woolf gave a dinner party at the Sav...
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William Edward Stevens
William Edward Stevens was born in 1880 the youngest of the three children of Arthur Stevens (1855-1920) and Jane Stevens née Hunt (1857-1883). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1881 i...
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