Established sometime in the 1850s.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Queen's Assurance
Commemorated ati
Victoria's coronation
The errors in the inscriptions (can be viewed at Victorian Web) are presumabl...
Other Subjects
World's first cash machine
In spite of the plaque's claim, there is evidence of a cash dispensing machine being used in Tokyo in 1966. The invention of the British version has been credited to John Shepherd-Barron of the pri...
Grove Road Toll Bar
"In use in the 18th and 19th centuries" so the dates we give are very approximate.
Albert E. Reed
Paper manufacturer and Weslian preacher. Born Devon. Established a newsprint manufacturing company in Kent in 1894. By 1965 this had grown to be the Reed Group and in 1993 it merged to become R...
Sir Ambrose Heal
Furniture designer and retailer. Born at Crouch End. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art before joining the family firm which ran the Heal & Son department store. He designed the simple, st...
George Hay and Company
Chartered accountants and registered auditors. They are based at the same address as the plaque and presumably contributed to its erection.
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