Created by William and Gilbert Foyle. See William for more information. For more on old London bookshops see .
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Foyles bookshop
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Foyles - David Attenborough
The most ferocious thing I have ever encountered in any trip abroad is not a ...
Foyles - William Foyle
Lord Justice Darling was in the shop. He offered me 4 shillings for a book m...
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Railway Hotel, Harrow
A three-storey brick Victorian pub.  In the 1950s it was used as a jazz club and by February 1964 an R&B club (the Bluesday) was operating, where played: Long John Baldry, the Bo Street Runners...
1 memorial
Spitalfields weaving industry
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were skilled silk weavers and set up looms in their homes in Spitalfields. The Spitalfields textile trade thrived until the mi...
2 memorials
1 memorial
Albergo del Pellegrino
This building was used as a hotel, 'The Pilgrim' until about 1930.  It was demolished following WW2 bomb damage.  The photo shows the east side and Byron's window was on the first floor, fourth fro...
1 memorial
Sun Fire Office
Founded in London, now the oldest existing insurance company in the world.
1 memorial
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Ada Nield Chew
Working-class, factory worker, promoter of women’s trade unions. Born on a farm in North Staffordshire as Ada Nield. 1897 married George Chew ​(d.1940) who was also an organiser​ with the Independe...
1 memorial
Smithfield Poultry Market
The original poultry market by Horace Jones was opened in 1875 but destroyed by fire in 1958. Our page for that fire has an image of the original building. The new building has a concrete elliptic...
1 memorial
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