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Foyles bookshop

Categories: Commerce

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 ...

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Foyles - William Foyle

Lord Justice Darling was in the shop. He offered me 4 shillings for a book m...

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Cesar Picton

Cesar Picton

Former slave and businessman. Born in Senegal, (his birth year is approximate). At the age of about six, he was bought and taken to England, where he was presented as a servant to Sir John Phillipp...

Person, Commerce, Race Issues, Africa

1 memorial
Tim Yau, MBE

Tim Yau, MBE

President of the 12th Executive Committee of London Chinatown Chinese Association. His name appears twice on the lion monument and it may be Uau or Yau.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Tourism / Traditions, China/Hong Kong

1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel Albert Victor Cowley

Lieutenant Colonel Albert Victor Cowley

Member of the Ealing District Council in 1899. Albert Victor Cowley was born in 1860, the third of the four children of Edward Spencer Dickin Cowley (1816-1893) and Selina Cowley née Lindfield (18...

Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Reeves & Sons Ltd

Reeves & Sons Ltd

Artists' colour manufacturer. Established by William Reeves (1739–1803). It has had a number of names, always including "Reeves" until ownership passed to Wilhelm Becker, through Colart Fine Art an...

Group, Art, Commerce, Industry

1 memorial
Henry Spicer (stationery)

Henry Spicer (stationery)

Born Islington into the stationery family. Trustee of Islington Union Chapel.  MP for Islington South. 1885-6. Henry Spicer was the eldest of the ten children of Henry S. J. Spicer (1801-1877) a...

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial