A Huguenot refugee from Dieppe. He, along with his family and a French minister were killed by a massive gunpowder explosion at the Temple Mills in Leyton in 1690. puts the explosion "on the night before Easter 1690". And gives 26 March 1690 as Easter Sunday.
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Peter Pain
Erected between June 2014 and June 2015. Lost between April 2019 and March 2...
Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...
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Signage company. It was named after their concept called the 'brilliant letter'. This comprised a pressed copper sheet with a v-shaped cross section so as to imitate the classic incised wooden fasc...
Born Glasgow. Aged 15 he joined Nobel's Explosives Company and worked his way up to running it. Nobels became part of ICI of which he became Chairman and Managing Director in 1930, following on fro...
The picture source website is a report on the Archaeology in the Lea Valley prepared in advance of the 2012 Olympics.
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