Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,757 pages of information and 247,134 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
of 217 Southampton Row, London
1897 Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons commissioned a special building to house the Pitman's Metropolitan School in Southampton Row[1]
1898 The new Pitman’s Metropolitan School building opened in London - see Pitman's Central College.
1938 Principal: R. W. Holland OBE. MA. MSc. LLD. (ie Robert Wolstenholme Holland (1880-1962)[2])
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