A chain of grocery shops across north London. Faded London have more details and some photos of a splendid shop in Atlantic Road SW9.
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David Greig
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David Greig - N8
David Greig, 1865 - 1952, founder of the chain of grocers and Hornsey schools...
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Sinclair Beecham
Co-founder of Pret a Manger with Julian Metcalfe, who he met at the Polytechnic of Central London.
The Bell, Carter Lane
From this inn, on 25 October 1598, Richard Quiney wrote a letter to William Shakespeare. This letter, the only one addressed to Shakespeare that has survived, is held by the museum at Strafford. Th...
Thomas Earnshaw
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business...
Albert E. Reed
Paper manufacturer and Weslian preacher. Born Devon. Established a newsprint manufacturing company in Kent in 1894. By 1965 this had grown to be the Reed Group and in 1993 it merged to become R...
Alfred Phillips
Composer, publisher, piano dealer. Alfred William Phillips was born in Whitechapel to a family in 'trade', one of which was a music shop, where he learnt piano tuning. When he started his own busin...
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