Person    | Male  Born 1936 

John Ringwood

Known as Johnny, a former seaman who later worked in the Royal Docks. Used to live in Murray Square, Custom House and moved to Hornchurch. 

YouTube interview about his interesting life.

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John Ringwood

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Dockers statue - John Ringwood

{Small steel plaque at the front:} "Landed" This sculpture has been erected a...

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Woolf Joel

Woolf Joel

Born Spitalfields.  South African mining magnate and businessman. The web provides the following anecdote: Early in 1898, just before leaving for South Africa, Woolf gave a dinner party at the Sav...

Person, Industry, South Africa

1 memorial
unidentified mill in Great Sutton Street

unidentified mill in Great Sutton Street

Where there are six millstones surely there must have been a mill?

Building, Food & Drink, Industry

1 memorial
Josiah Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood

Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...

Person, Craft / Design, Industry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous

4 memorials
Henry Ford

Henry Ford

American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-clas...

Person, Commerce, Industry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Transport

1 memorial