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Bow Quarter is a gated community in Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The building was originally the Bryant and May match factory, and was the site of the Match Girls' strike in the 1880s.
Bryant & May's match factory (now the Bow Quarter). (October 2006)
Striking match workers march to Westminster in July 1888.
Bryant & May
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Bryant & May was a British match manufacturer, which today exists only as a brand name owned by Swedish Match. The company was formed in the mid-19th century as a dry goods trader, with its first matc
Bow Quarter
…Bow Quarter is a gated community in Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The building was originally the Bryant and May match factory, and was the site of the Match Girls' strike in the 1880s. The factory was redeveloped in the 1980s, in one of east London's first urban…
Advertisement from the Illustrated Guide to the Church Congress 1897
Bryant & May "Pearl" safety matches, 1890–1891
Cartoon from The Day's Doings, showing the police clashing with the match makers' march