Erection date: 1995
The plaque shows a shuttle and two bobbins, representing the local weaving trade. It is placed close to and was made using items found in that house.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Folgate Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Shuttle and Bobbins
The origins of the East End textile industry can be traced to the 14th centur...
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were s...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Shuttle and Bobbins
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
Erected in the centenary year of his death. Such a fittingly designed plaque. Let's have more of them. Worked at Winchester Cathedral 19...
This is the plaque originally erected in Abingdon Street. Rescued from that war-damaged site, in 1959 the LCC donated it to the Instituti...
We are grateful to London Footprints for this information: “This was designed in 1905 by R Stephen Ayling for 'ladies engaged in or train...
The plaque is just inside the garden.
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