Rosehaugh Stanhope Developments was responsible for a number of high-profile developments in the City, such as Broadgate. on the failure of the Rosehaugh company describes: ".. a company with more subsidiaries than employees. Rosehaugh's downfall lay in this labyrinthine construction, a spaghetti bowl of mostly poor investments."
We would have liked to find more information about the self-build housing initiative for the unemployed but we can't find anything.
From Clapham Society, writing about Henry Cavendish: "... like his father he was passionately interested in science .. established his own laboratory. On his father’s death in 1783 he moved this fr...
From British History: The Hall of Commerce, existing some years ago in Threadneedle Street, was begun in 1830 by Mr. Edward Moxhay, a speculative biscuit-baker, on the site of the old French church...
The thousands of building workers who have lost their lives at work. Researching one of these terrible events reminded us that we have found other memorials to people who died in 'accidents' at wo...
George Richardson Strachan. Surveyor to the Chelsea Vestry in 1885. From British History Online: In 1887 Strachan designed the public garden which was created out of the disused burial ground aro...
From the website "ISHA consists of Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association, with Urban Style Ltd as a subsidiary. We also incorporate Lien Viet Housing Association and proudly continue to deli...
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