On this very site Ping Pong created & patented by John Jaques III, 1901.
EC1, Holborn, 121
The plaque is above the shop name 'Bounce'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ping pong
Businessman. Founder of the John Jaques and Son Toy Company, which produced a...
That antique word "hereby" is the perfect choice to conjure up Blind Fred standing here selling matches to passers-by, in the 1920s and 3...
Ford lived here for a few years with his mistress Violet Hunt and at the time the address was according to RBKC (who have a 1966 photo of...
The “fireman” on a steam train was the man who stoked the engine. You’ve seen him in cowboy films, furiously shovelling coal into the fir...
The (lack of) punctuation on this plaque makes it easy to misread.
