Metalwork restorers.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Acorn Restorations
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Lewisham pump
{On the plaque:} This pump was made by George Turner of Dorset Street, Fleet ...
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Promoseven Network
Akram Miknas set up this company in 1968. It is now the largest marketing communications company in the Middle East.
1 memorial
Grice's Granary
A Grade II listed building, built around 1780 and extended during the following two centuries. It contains some 200-year-old beams which were originally parts of ships. The building now houses Sand...
1 memorial
Sir Albert Levy
Founder of the Ardath Tobacco Company. Honorary Treasurer at the Royal Free Hospital in 1926. See Lord Riddell. Also helped fund the 1928 new extension for which the maternity section was named t...
1 memorial
William Whiteley
Entrepreneur and founder of Whiteley's department store on Queensway, now Whiteleys shopping centre. A bequest from his will formed Whiteley Village. Born in Yorkshire and, 1848, apprenticed to a ...
3 memorials
Saracen's Head Inn
Mentioned in 1522 as an inn with 30 beds and stalls for four horses. Removed (as shown in the picture) for the formation of Holborn Viaduct and its approaches 1868.
1 memorial
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Ford Madox Ford - W8
W8, Campden Hill Road, 80
Ford lived here for a few years with his mistress Violet Hunt and at the time the address was according to RBKC (who have a 1966 photo of...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Philip Wilson Steer
Artist. Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire. Entered the civil service, but found the examinations too demanding. Became an artist in 1878. Rejected by the Royal Academy of Art, he studied in Paris. He wa...
1 memorial
Stonebridge Estate
E8, Stean Street
At first we thought the plaque was deliberately mounted at a jaunty angle but then we saw that a screw has gone missing.
2 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Hammersmith Palais
W6, Shepherd's Bush Road, 230 - 236
Hammersmith Palais opened as a roller skating rink in 1910. Later it served as an ice rink and, most famously, as a 'palais de danse' wit...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Queen's silver bed
W1, Hyde Park
We imagine the serrated edge is meant to resemble a silver coin but it makes us think of a bottle cap. Doesn't the inscription conjure u...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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