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Group, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Ireland, Scotland

George Henry William Cashmore

George Henry William Cashmore acquired a patent for an improvement to the Lewis gun magazine. Submitted in 1918 and patented in 1919. Cashmore and Malcolm Hankey set up a foundry in Balham, that w...

Person, Craft / Design

Clapham Pottery

Previously located at the Clapham Leisure Centre, in 2009 it was re-housed together with two kilns in the former chapel of the Ingleton House Boys Home in Rectory Grove. Its projects include worksh...

Building, Craft / Design

Madame Tussaud

Born in Strasbourg as Marie Grosholtz. Her mother worked for Dr Curtius, a wax modeller, who taught his skills to Marie. In the French revolution made death masks of the executed nobles and royalty...

Person, Commerce, Craft / Design, France

Mortlake Tapestry Works

Barnes History has a nice hand-drawn map with a pin showing the location of these Tapestry Works, and it gives the history of the site. John Dee (1527 -1608) lived in a house on this site (with a l...

Building, Craft / Design