L&Co / Saffron Hill

Longman's wall plaque on what used to be the Ship Binding Works on Saffron Hill. The swan and the ship symbols came about through Thomas Longman once having owned shops called The Ship and The Black Swan. The book binding works on Saffron Hill were established in 1887 and closed in 1941 [source: Longman family by Asa Briggs]. London Borough of Camden. 

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In the C14th renowned for saffron, in later centuries notorious for crime and vice, perhaps most famously portrayed in Dickens' Oliver Twist. Commercial building eventually replaced the slums. London Borough of Camden.

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