Place    From 1900 

Doves Press

Categories: Literature

See Doves Bindery. Our picture shows the only remaining piece of the Doves type, or did until 2015, when some more was retrieved - see Doves Bindery.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Doves Press

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Doves Bindery and Press

Initially (ha-ha) we were puzzled by the letters at the bottom of this plaque...

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Thomas Cobden-Sanderson

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1840-1922, founded the Doves Bindery and Doves...

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William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson

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3 memorials
William Ford Robinson Stanley

William Ford Robinson Stanley

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John Walker

John Walker

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1 memorial
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins

Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9 February 1863 at Clapton, Middlesex (now Greater London), the last of the three children of the Reverend Edwards Comerford Hawkins (1827-1906) and Jane Isabella H...

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1 memorial
Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith

Translated Pepys's diary (written in one of the versions of shorthand used at the time) in 1819 - 22.

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1 memorial

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James Hanley

James Hanley

Novelist and playwright.  The ODNB says he was born Dublin 1901.  Wikipedia says that's wrong; it was Liverpool in 1897.  Left school aged 12 and educated himself thereafter.  In WW1 he served in t...

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1 memorial
Arthur Emeny
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1 memorial