Founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960s. From Glasgow. The V&A hold his archive.
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John Stephen
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John Stephen
City of Westminster John Stephen, 1934 - 2004, founder of Carnaby Street as w...
Other Subjects
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Sir Mohammed Anwar Pervez, OBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Mohammed Anwar Pervez was born on 15 March 1935 in Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan). Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia page give much information about the ...
1 memorial
Robert Horner
Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Essex, worked in the market and managed to buy the lease in 1875. Forced to sell to the City of London in 1920.
2 memorials
J. Lyons & Co.
2019: We read the splendid Legacy by Thomas Harding published by Heinemann, a history of the family that built the J. Lyons empire. Below are our notes from that reading (augmented by the Oxford Ho...
4 memorials
1 memorial
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War dead, WW2
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)
MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the Brick Lane brewery Truman, Hanbury & Company in 1808, eventually taking on sole ownership. 1807 married Hannah Gurney...
3 memorials
Percy Alexander James Matthews
Rifleman. Number 601 of the London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Died in action at the age of 20. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
horses killed and injured in the terrorist bombing at Hyde Park
Seven horses were killed by the bomb or as an act of mercy shortly after. One, Sefton, was critically injured but survived to become a celebrity. The Daily Mail have another photo and an extremel...
1 memorial
Broadway Palace development - Tooting - Agriculture
SW17, Mitcham Road, 22, (26, 28), 30, all on west side
This 1940-67 NLS map shows a 'picture theatre (disused)' at number 24 (now flat-fronted post-war shops), and at Cinema Treasures we found...
1 subject commemorated
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