The meeting place of the Wolf Club of which in about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member. Lawrence Silverman tells us that, later, this was the tavern where Renton Nicholson staged his very rude Judge and Jury shows and ‘poses plastiques’ featuring apparently naked girls (though actually wearing fleshings).
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Coal Hole Tavern
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Fountain Tavern
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the politic...
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Robert Milligan
Merchant. Born in Dumfries. He grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Jamaica, and moved to London in 1779. He headed a group of powerful businessmen, who planned and built the West India Dock...
Francis Chappell & Sons
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Sydney Simmons
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George M. Hammer and Co. Ltd.
Firm of furniture makers, such as school desks and park benches. From London Fine: "Operating in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hammer were an old English furnisher, in their words; 'Manufactur...
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