Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Essex, worked in the market and managed to buy the lease in 1875. Forced to sell to the City of London in 1920.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Robert Horner
Commemorated ati
Spitalfields Market - Horner - finished
Odd use of English, using the passive to force the subject to be the market r...
Spitalfields Market - Horner - started
The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.
Other Subjects
King William Street underground station
The station took over an existing building, number 46, entrance and booking hall on the ground floor with offices above. Became obsolete when the line was extended to Moorgate and was demolished in...
1 memorial
Sainsbury's
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1 memorial
David Norman
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Person, Commerce, Dance, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Steelyard, Stilliarde or Stalhof
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2 memorials
The Cavendish Hotel
There is evidence of a 'Miller's Hotel' on the site in the early 1800s which was renamed in 1836. It was purchased by Rosa Lewis, who expanded it by combining four buildings into one. During both t...
1 memorial
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Pitzhanger Manor
In records prior to 1800 their names made it is easy to confuse the house that stood here with another which stood at what is now Pitzhanger Park, about a mile to the north. In 1768, George Dance ...
2 memorials
Kent arch
E3, St Leonard's Street
From the excellent London Gardens Online we understand that: This arch originally formed a riverside entrance to Northumberland House. Wh...
3 subjects commemorated
Harold P. Bastie, Alderman
Chairman Highways Committee. Andrew Behan researched Bastie: Harold Percival Doughty Bastie was born on 24 February 1913 and his birth was registered in Edmonton, Middlesex. He was the second chil...
1 memorial
William Alfred Plunkett
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
1 memorial
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