Contractors who built 55 Broadway. We found some references to a company of the same name building skyscrapers in the United States but it may be a totally different company.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Foundation Company Ltd
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Walter Wakley
This stone was laid on 13th September 1928 by Walter Wakley, foreman stonemas...
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Charles James Kerven
We think C. J. and F. A. Kerven were builders. 'The Metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800 - 1914 a Building History', an Open University thesis by Keith Alan Bailey refers to a number of Kervens who we...
1 memorial
C. & F. Bryen
Builders active in 1937, but the London Gazette carried this: "NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned Charles Francis Bryen and Frank William ...
1 memorial
Harry Mallaby-Deeley
Politician. He sat as MP for Harrow and then Willesden East, and was renowned for rarely if ever speaking in the house. He was more successful as a property dealer, and in 1913 purchased the whole ...
1 memorial
Bridewell Palace / Prison
Built by Henry VIII, who lived there 1515-23. It deteriorated so that Edward VI gave it to the City of London who then used it as a prison, hospital (actually school) and workrooms. "Bridewell" was...
2 memorials
Columbia Market
In 1852, the area Novia Scotia Gardens being a notorious slum, Angela Burdett-Coutts bought it with the intention of developing healthy accommodation for the poor and a market for their use. Howeve...
2 memorials
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