The earliest record for the Fan Makers Company is in 1670 when they raised a petition to Parliament complaining about the threat to their industry from foreign imports. The Fan Makers' Hall in Red Cross Street was used from 1710 until it was destroyed in WW2 on 29th December 1940. The picture source website gives a history.
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Fan Makers' Company Hall
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Fan makers
The Fan Makers' Company met in their Common Hall in Red Cross Street to adopt...
Huguenot fan makers
This plaque may correctly show where fan makers settled but their Hall was so...
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Val d'Osne
Marc Maison has a whole page on this firm: "The Val Osne company was an art foundry founded in 1835 by Jean Pierre Andre Victor .... Its original purpose was for manufacturing street furniture and ...
1 memorial
Harry Beck
Graphic artist and map designer. Born 14 Wesley Road, Leyton but he was only there for about 3 years. He was brought up and educated in Highgate Village. Joined London Underground in 1925 on a t...
4 memorials
Paul Bommer
Professional freelance illustrator & graphic designer based in London’s East End. His website.
1 memorial
1 memorial
J. Starkie Gardner
Sculptor of, and historian on, decorative ironwork. Also wrote on geology and botany and collected fossils. His company, based in Lambeth, did all the metal work at 2 Temple Place, inside and out, ...
1 memorial
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