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...
Bethlem Museum of the Mind holds: "Register of outpatients attending the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Bethlem's outpatient department b...
These stones are laid in the ground to the right of the wreath that can be seen in our photograph. Left to right they are: Suez, Gang Sho...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
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