Hotel group founded in the 1960s by Reo Stakis. They bought Caxton Hall in 1986, intending to develop it as offices and flats, but by the time they were given approval, the property market had crashed. The chain was taken over by the Hilton group.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Stakis PLC
Sir Winston Churchill, spoke here at the former Caxton Hall, 1937 - 1942, Sta...
John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover KG (1927–2022), The Hon. Simon Sainsbury (1930–2006) and The Right Honourable Sir Timothy Sainsbury (1932–) were the three sons of Alan Joh...
Opened by Sylvia Pankhurst as an answer to the dozens of tiny failing workshops where women were paid a pittance. Toys were no longer being imported from Germany, so the factory employed 59 women t...
Initiator of the uniform Penny Post in 1840. Due to him Britain was the first country to use adhesive stamps and thus we do not have to put the name of our country on them. This is analogous to the...
Founded in London as Vere, Glyn & Hallifax. Name changes: c.1780 Glyn, Hallifax and Mills; 1850 Glyn, Mills & Co.; 1864 Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co.; 1923 Glyn, Mills Currie Holt & Co....
Manufacturers of paint pigments, and chemicals, like white lead, saltpetre and oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid). Established in the 18th century, probably by Samuel Brandram (c.1743 -1808) who is pi...
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