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2i's coffee bar
Birthplace of British rock 'n roll and the popular music industry. Mickie Most started as a singing waiter here. Owen Adams provides a huge amount of information.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)
MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the Brick Lane brewery Truman, Hanbury & Company in 1808, eventually taking on sole ownership. 1807 married Hannah Gurney...
Wright’s Dairy - Chelsea
Founded in 1796 by a Mr Wright, whose son, W. H. Wright carried on the business. It started in a part of Chelsea known at the time as Cook’s Ground, which by the time of this 1865 map had been redu...
Meetal Patel
A beekeeper and founder of Pearly Queen Honey, London. Interview. Grew up in Manchester.
John Lawson Johnston
Nutrition promoter and food manufacturer. Born at 29 Main Street, Roslin, Midlothian. He took over his uncle's butcher shop and decided to use the large quantity of beef trimmings produced to make ...
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