Created by William and Gilbert Foyle. See William for more information. For more on old London bookshops see Spitalfields Life.
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Foyles bookshop
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Foyles - David Attenborough
The most ferocious thing I have ever encountered in any trip abroad is not a ...
Foyles - William Foyle
Lord Justice Darling was in the shop. He offered me 4 shillings for a book m...
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scientific life assurance
Equitable Life, the world's oldest mutual insurer, started business in 1762 in the parsonage of St Nicholas Acons in Nicholas Lane. It pioneered scientific life assurance by basing premiums on age ...
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Fred L. Turner
Businessman. Developed the McDonald's hamburger brand.
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Abbey National plc
Since 1927 Abbey head office had occupied the site where 221b Baker Street would be, Sherlock Holmes' address. In 2002 Abbey moved to new premises in Triton Square. See 221b for information about...
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Samuel Jones and Company
A stationery firm founded in 1810 by Edward Jones. A Museum of London photo shows one of their products, captioned: "Reel of 'Nulli Secundus' adhesive mending tape stored within a tin reel with a c...
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Birchin Lane drapers
From Stow: "...Birchin Lane. . . . This lane, and the High Street, near adjoining, hath been inhabited for the most part with wealthy drapers; from Birchin Lane ... in the reign of Henry VI., had y...
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Hackney Council
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, all three of which had been created in 1900. Previously they had been paris...
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Virginia Woolf
Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Hyde Park Gate, London. Drowned herself in the River Ouse Rodmell, Sussex by filling pockets with stones. Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived at no. 52 Tavistock S...
9 memorials
Stephen John Fry
Actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer with professional name Stephen Fry. Born on 24 August 1957, the second of the three children of Alan John Fry (1930-2019) and Marianne Ev...
Person, Cinema, Humour, Literature, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio
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