Manufacturers of ceramic pipes and construction materials, named after the Burmantofts district of Leeds. The business began when fire clay was discovered in a coal mine owned by William Wilcox and John Lassey. The company supplied the distinctive ox-blood red terracotta blocks which feature on the exterior of many of the early London Underground stations.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Burmantofts
The plaque mentions the Charing Cross, Edgware & Hampstead Railway. We be...
First established in London in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partner, Robert Murray, operating only within the City of London, the City of Westminter and Southwark. From 1765 similar ser...
An insurance organisation launched by Barber Beaumont in 1807. Beaumont was the managing director and within 20 years it was the fifth largest fire insurer in Britain. Source: Oxford Dictionary of...
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. ...
Director of the Brilliant Sign Company in 1938.
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