Ellen E (Ciss) Wright of Croydon Harriers became All England 440 yards Champion when aged 20 & living at 6 Clifford Road.
16 August 1930 Stamford Bridge Stadium
People for Portland Road
SE25, Portland Road, 164, South Norwood Leisure Centre
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ellen Wright
Athletics club. Located at Croydon Sports Arena. Their website has a history ...
Athlete. There is little information about her. At one time, she lived with h...
Venue which was used by the London Athletic Club until 1905, when its new own...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ellen Wright
Group which works for the regeneration of Portland Road and its surrounding a...
Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797), 'The African', lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, w...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 - 1816, dramatist and statesman lived here, 1795 - 1802. London County Council
This complex of buildings was created to house the Guildhall School of Music, who had outgrown their premises at Aldermanbury. Designed b...
London County Council Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 - 1898, poet, stayed here in 1863.
We discovered the plaque through the Stationmaster app. This is rather sad. The plaque is at the far end of the platform where it is pro...
The Bevington statue is protected by some nice original railings which seem still to display their original coat of committee green paint.
We've found a number of plaques in a similar and distinctive style around the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, but we have not been able to determine who erects them. If it's the council they ar...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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