It began as a business run by a Mrs. Buckland, who was said to have collected laundry in a barrow and washed and ironed it at home. In l880, Alexander Leman, married Mrs Buckland's daughter, and he took over the laundry. He moved it to Old Town (the site of the plaque), where the washing was collected by horse-drawn vans. It remained a family business until a merger with a larger laundry, Blossom and Browne.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sycamore Laundry
Sycamore House, built 1787, home of the Sycamore Laundry, 1898 - 1994. The Cl...
If someone has already created the definitive study of the LCC Weights and Measures, we have not found it. But we have found photos of 4 buildings built for this function, three still standing. R...
1698 At Jonathan’s Coffee House John Castaing published a list of currency, stock and commodity prices It included prices for gold, ducats, silver staters and pieces of eight. 1773 A more formal...
Inventor and businessman. Born Derbyshire. Invented a machine for manufacturing a new type of lace, bobbin net, and went on to manufacture and sell lace. 1815 he bought a mill in Tiverton, moved th...
Co-churchwarden of St Jude's in 1871. He was born in 1805 in Scotland. On 10 June 1847 he married Ann Reader (1823-1897) in St Peter and St Paul Church, East Milton Road, Milton-Next-Gravesend, Ke...
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...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them