This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Port of London Authority
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King George V Silver Jubilee
The shield (showing the Port of London seal) above the text is surmounted by ...
Teddington Lock - 1858
We found the punctuation on this plaque so peculiar we have transcribed it ex...
Virginia Settlers Memorial
This voyage took place 16 years before the Mayflower. The memorial has a his...
Other Subjects
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 ...
Carter and Company / Poole Pottery
Ceramic tile manufacturers. Founded by Jesse Carter, a builders’ merchant and ironmonger from Surrey. It was later renamed as the Poole Pottery. The Carter company produced much of the ceramic til...
Hay's Wharf
The land between Tooley Street and the Thames has been occupied by wharves and warehouses since the middle ages. Hay's Wharf originated as a Tooley Street brew-house of which Alexander Hay took own...
T. Knowles
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Bostall Estate in 1900.
Harry Selfridge
Born Wisconsin. Too small to join the navy he became a clerk in a department store, where he rose to manager and then set out on his own. Very successful, he "retired" in 1906, moved to London and ...
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