Opened by Swiss hotelier Cesar Ritz. The first hotel in the country where every room had an ensuite bathroom.
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Ritz Hotel
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Gordon Victor Young
Businessman in the fish industry. "Who knew Billingsgate Market well and built up the family business, W. Young & Son." The quote is on the plaque but we can't trace it, or indeed, find out any...
1 memorial
Gaston Berlemont
Publican. Born in the Middlesex Hospital. Took over The French House from his Belgian father and ran it until he retired on 1989. The French House is a pub and dining room at 49 Dean Street which d...
1 memorial
James Perkins
Chairman of the Smithfield Markets Committee, 1888.
1 memorial
C. A. Robinson & Co
Scrap metal dealers in Greenwich, founded by Charles Robinson. In 1953 leased the land that became Anchor Iron & Crowley's Wharf, and moved there. The principal cargoes were scrap iron, lead i...
3 memorials
Grice's Granary
A Grade II listed building, built around 1780 and extended during the following two centuries. It contains some 200-year-old beams which were originally parts of ships. The building now houses Sand...
1 memorial
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Private Henry John Beasley
Henry John Beasley was born on 24 October 1898 the elder of the two children of John Henry Beasley (1875-1933) and Harriet Beasley née Killick (1877-1965). His birth was registered in the 4th quart...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Essex Hall foundation stone
WC2, Essex Street, Essex Hall
More information about the creation of the building at The Story of Essex Hall. The foundation stone is below the Essex Street & Ess...
1 creator
John Scurr
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Labour MP for Mile End 1923-31. Born in Australia as John Rennie but was adopted by his uncle, Captain John Scurr, and brought to London...
2 memorials
Nell Gwynne
Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever. Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived at Lauderdale House as the mistress of Charles II, where she dangled her first-born from a window to scare the King int...
4 memorials
1 Poultry - Mappin & Webb clock
EC2, Poultry, 1
This clock is in the public atrium to the new building and is the nearest we get to a memorial for the Mappin and Webb building, on its o...
1 subject commemorated
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