A family run business, supplying natural timber and timber based products.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
A family run business, supplying natural timber and timber based products.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Whitten Timber
Dulwich on View says: "Up close, community members will be able to read the n...
Charles Cheers Wakefield was born and raised in Liverpool. (Cheers was his mother's maiden name). Became an oil-broker, founding his own firm in 1899, C.C. Wakefield & Co. later Wakefield Oil C...
Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
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.
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...
Its first charter was granted to Sir William Barne, Lord Mayor of London and Hugh Lyddiard, Clerk of the Cheque at Woolwich dockyard. It has been in several locations in the area, and our picture s...
It was first mentioned in 1276, although there are claims that it has been in existence since 1014. The present buildings were designed in 1851 and an art deco entrance in Southwark Street was adde...
"The munificence of his benefactions" - we just don't write plaques like that anymore.
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
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