Football player and manager. Born Geoffrey Charles Hurst in the Lake Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. He played principally for West Ham United and England and went on to manage Telford United and Chelsea. He scored three goals in the final of the 1966 World Cup, a feat which has never been equalled. Knighted 1998.
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Geoff Hurst
The Champions. England and West Ham United captain Bobby Moore hoisted on the...
{Around plinth of statue:} Bobby Moore Captain• Ray Wilson• Alan Ball• Nobby ...
The club was founded from the combination of a number of youth clubs in south-east London. Their nickname is the 'Addicks' which is supposedly derived from 'haddocks'. One of the explanations of t...
Established in 2012 with a donation made by the Jubilee Walkway Trust. The Trust’s charitable mission is to create walkways in towns and cities around the world to preserve and protect the physical...
Group, Education, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Sport / Games
Rower. Born Andrew Jeremy Holmes in Uxbridge. Educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith. He rowed for the Kingston and Leander rowing clubs. At the 1984 and 1988 Olympic games, he rowed with Si...
Weightlifting coach and wrestler. Also known as Yakov, he was born in Poland. During WW2 he took part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Along with ten other team members, he was murdered by Palestinia...
Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland
Athlete and doctor. Born Roger Gilbert Bannister in Harrow. While still a medical student, he won the mile event in the Oxford versus Cambridge match four times between 1947 and 1950, and was a fin...
