Founded in Hatton Garden in May 1848 as The Prudential, Investment, Loan, and Assurance Association. The army of premium collection agents was for many years identified with the Prudential as the "Man from the Pru". It moved to its traditional home at Holborn Bars in 1879.
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Prudential Assurance
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Prudential Assurance war memorial WW1
Four standing girls adorn the corners of the plinth. At their feet are cornuc...
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Mitre Tavern
Fleet Street. This pub dates from Shakespeare's time. Johnson and Boswell often visited. It was pulled down in 1829 by Hoares to extend their bank.
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Samuel Tull & Co
From Some Notes on the Ward of Aldgate (1904) "Messrs. SAMUEL TULL & Co., 12, Creechurch Lane, Rope, Line, Twine and Net Makers, established over 164 years. Originally at the sign of the "Peter...
2 memorials
Commercial Motor Users of Hackney
The name suggest a group of local business people coming together around the use of new-fangled motor-powered conveyances. The text of the plaque tells us that they also had charitable activities. ...
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Ritz Hotel
Opened by Swiss hotelier Cesar Ritz. The first hotel in the country where every room had an ensuite bathroom.
1 memorial
The Ivy restaurant
The Ivy, opened by Abele Giandolini, as an unlicensed Italian cafe in 1917 in a building on the same site. Famous as a theatrical-celebrities haunt, possibly due to its late closing time of near-mi...
1 memorial
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