Rosehaugh Stanhope Developments was responsible for a number of high-profile developments in the City, such as Broadgate. The Independent's 1992 report on the failure of the Rosehaugh company describes: ".. a company with more subsidiaries than employees. Rosehaugh's downfall lay in this labyrinthine construction, a spaghetti bowl of mostly poor investments."
We would have liked to find more information about the self-build housing initiative for the unemployed but we can't find anything.
Continued the development of Bloomsbury including the building of the Covent Garden Market in the Piazza. He received a royal grant permitting the market.
Architect and speculative builder. Worked closely with the manufacturers Doulton and Company to produce a rough-faced terracotta for this type of neo-renaissance architectural decoration. Ornamen...
Bolton Gardens where Potter lived was a row of houses on the south side of Old Brompton Road, now occupied by Bousfield Primary School. The 1933 picture shows just a section of number 2, at the le...
Built by James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. Converted into a hospital in 1733. Three-storey, red brick simple design. Wings were later added to the structure by architect Isaac Ware. Demoli...
Initially this plaque looked like it was raised by a man simply concerned about his property. The only notable Warburton we could find in the area is a Dr Warburton who managed the insane asylum w...
Chiswick disabled men of His Majesty's forces and their families and for the dependants of those who fell in the war.
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