Manufacturers of ceramic pipes and construction materials, named after the Burmantofts district of Leeds. The business began when fire clay was discovered in a coal mine owned by William Wilcox and John Lassey. The company supplied the distinctive ox-blood red terracotta blocks which feature on the exterior of many of the early London Underground stations.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Burmantofts
The plaque mentions the Charing Cross, Edgware & Hampstead Railway. We be...
1857 joined his brother, George, in the family biscuit firm, Huntley and Palmers, based in Reading. William Isaac Palmer also joined the business. Samuel ran the London office and lived with his f...
Family business that survived until the 1970s. This photograph was taken in 1932.
The Star Brewhouse is shown on John Rocque's map of 1746, situated immediately north of what is now the junction of Wapping High Street and Hilliard's Court. It was first recorded in 1688 and was ...
Born Wisconsin. Too small to join the navy he became a clerk in a department store, where he rose to manager and then set out on his own. Very successful, he "retired" in 1906, moved to London and ...
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