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Jones's butcher's shop

Family business that survived until the 1970s. This photograph was taken in 1932.

Place, Commerce, Food & Drink

East London Toy Factory

Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...

Building, Children, Commerce, Gender Issues

Captain James Wilson

Sea captain and trader. Then he served the London Missionary Society, 1796–98, as Honorary Commander of the ‘Duff’, the first British Missionary Ship of modern times. Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Wa...

Person, Commerce, Religion, Transport

Members of Selfridges department store in 1930

Group, Commerce

George Odger

Shoemaker and trade unionist. Born in Roborough, South Devon. His year of birth on the plaque (1820) contradicts most other sources. He was an itinerant shoemaker for several years before moving to...

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration