Erection date: 1995
The plaque shows a detail from a design for the silk fabric produced in Spitalfields. We believe the design shows a pomegranate in the Jacobean style, popular in the 18th century. One very successful designer was Garthwaite, who lived and worked one street to the north.
This cast-iron roundel is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
E1, Fournier Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Silk Design (A)
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were s...
Fabric designer. Born Leicestershire. Moved with her sister to Princes (now P...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bowler plaque - Silk Design (A)
We cannot find any information about Bowler himself, only that in c.1990-2010...
This inscription is cut into one of the stones between the second and third ground floor windows, counting from the left.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth year as 1723.
The plaque was originally installed in the old library in Downham.
Opened in 1754 as the burial ground for St Andrew's Holborn but full and closed by 1850. The site now occupied by the splendidly Art Deco...
We are extremely grateful to London Memorial who have done the research on this event, all recorded in their excellent website, from whic...
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