A savings bank launched by Barber Beaumont in 1806. We think this went on to become part of Friends Provident.
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Provident Life Office
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Barber Beaumont - vault stone
Our transcription of this long inscription was aided by the typed Winter 1978...
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Sir Thomas Gresham
Created the Royal Exchange in 1566 where the Gresham family crest, a grasshopper, can be seen. Son of Richard Gresham who was a Lord Mayor of London but Thomas never was. See A London Inheritance ...
4 memorials
Pimlico Tavern & Pimlico Pleasure Gardens, Hoxton
It seems likely that this tavern and pleasure gardens took the name of a publican with the foreign name 'Pimlico'.  There were many places of entertainment nearby and the whole area became known as...
1 memorial
William Alfred Westropp Foyle
Founded Foyles Bookshop in 1903.  Born Shoreditch, the 7th child of a 7th child of a 7th child.  William and brother Gilbert opened their first bookshop in Islington, moved to Peckham and then Ceci...
1 memorial
Birchin Lane drapers
From Stow: "...Birchin Lane. . . . This lane, and the High Street, near adjoining, hath been inhabited for the most part with wealthy drapers; from Birchin Lane ... in the reign of Henry VI., had y...
1 memorial
Merchant Adventurers of Hamburg
We can't find anything definitive but we believe this to be a group of British merchants who traded with Hamburg. The alternative being a group of merchants from Hamburg who traded with London. At...
1 memorial
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