Key to photos:
Line 1: Beable’s home in south London, Grave of BP’s first Chairman, Lord Strathcona (Highgate), The Match Girls’ strike plaque, Bryant & May (Bow)
Line 2: Cadbury’s Bournville village and factory (x3)
Line 3: Cadbury’s Bournville Village; Cassell’s first HQ at Marconi House (Strand); Cassell’s last independent HQ in Red Lion Square (1956)
Line 4: du Cros’ factory in Acton (post-Dunlop); Fort Dunlop atrium; (looking up); Fort Dunlop today
Line 5: Fort Dunlop’s famous LED lights and green roof; Hartley’s dining hall, Bootle
Line 6: Hartley’s Bootle factory disused gatehouse; Hartley’s village; Hartley’s Bermondsey factory today
Line 7: Grave of Stoney Smith, inventor of Hovis, Highgate; Huntley & Palmer’s biscuit tin, a tribute to Wedgwood; Lever’s home at Thornton Hall
Line 8: Lever’s Port Sunlight x3: village, Unilever HQ and Hulme Hall (where Ringo Starr first played with the Beatles)
Line 9: Lord and Lady Leverhulme’s graves at Port Sunlight; Joseph Lyons’ blue plaque opposite Olympia (Hammersmith); Lyon’s Strand Palace Hotel
Line 10: Mudie’s competitor – a Carnegie Library (Brentford); site of Mudie’s first shop, Kingsway; Newnes’ Tower House in Southampton Street
Line 11: George Newnes’ clock, also in Southampton Street; site of an early Odhams’ office, off The Strand; Southwood Memorial Gardens, Piccadilly, remembering Odhams’ Julius Elias (Viscount Southwood)
Line 12: Odhams’ Walk. award-winning social housing on site of former Odhams factory, Covent Garden (x2); Millais’ ‘Bubbles‘ featured in Pears’ advertising (now in Leverhulme Gallery, Port Sunlight)
Line 13: Pears’ (soap) family memorial, Isleworth; Pears’ first and last London offices, Great Russell Street and New Oxford Street
Line 14: Price’s Candles built Bromborough Pool industrial village; their Bromborough Dock (Britain’s largest private dock) later became Port Sunlight nature reserve; Schweppes first site in Drury Lane
Line 15: Waring’s ‘Old Joe‘ clock tower remembers Joseph Chamberlain (Birmingham University); Whiteley’s Kilburn ‘love nest’; site of Whiteleys first store in Bayswater
Line 16: Whiteley’s retirement village (x2); Whiteleys, newly re-opened Bayswater emporium, still bearing his name
Line 17: The founding members of the WH Smith family (from Beable); WHSmith’s 20th century London HQ, now the Lionel Robbins (library) building at LSE.
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