Founded by Scottish marine engineer, Alexander Wilson, 90–92 Wandsworth Road. Originally named Alex Wilson and Company, then Vauxhall Iron Works from 1897, the company built pumps and marine engines. In 1903 it built its first car. Moved to Luton in 1905. Name changed to Vauxhall Motors in 1907. Taken over by General Motors in 1925.
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Vauxhall Motors
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Vauxhall lavender garden
"Here’s your sweet lavender, sixteen sprigs a penny. That you will find my la...
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Josiah Wedgwood
Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...
Person, Craft / Design, Industry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
4 memorials
Sir Henry Doulton
Businessman, inventor and manufacturer of pottery. Born Vauxhall Walk where his father was a partner in a pottery business, Doulton and Watts. Followed his brother, John junior, into the business. ...
3 memorials
1 memorial
William Edward Forster
Born Dorset. Member of Parliament for Bradford, 1861- 1886, where there is another statue of him. Educational reformer. Died at 80 Eccleston Square.
Person, Education, Industry, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Alfred Beit
Co-founder and funder (with Sir Julius Wernher) of the Royal School of Mines building. Born Hamburg, learnt the diamond trade in Amsterdam and went to Kimberley where he met Wernher and Cecil Rhod...
Person, Industry, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Africa, Germany, South Africa
1 memorial
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