Lamps and light bulb manufacturers. Founded by the merger of the lighting businesses of Auergesellschaft, Siemens & Halske and Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG). The name is derived from osmium (a chemical element) and Wolfram (another name for tungsten).
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Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Citroën House, an early example of a concrete-framed building, was built in 1...
Chairman of the Smithfield Central Market Sub Committee in 1888.
Records go back to 1348. From the Guild‘s website: "In its widest sense mercery could describe all merchandise, although in London the term evolved to mean the trade specifically in luxury fabrics,...
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...
Banker and politician, grandson of the bank founder Sir Francis. Born Lee, near Lewisham, Kent. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Died at Fontmell Lodge, Bournemouth.
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