Erection date: 2014
Battersea Park, 1864
9th January 1864, site of the first match of association football.
Wandsworth Council, 2014
This game took place, on a Saturday, just 2 months after the FA had been formed.
SW11, Battersea Park
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Football - first FA match
The first official game played to Football Association rules took place in Ba...
Formed on the proposal of Ebenezer Cobb Morley at the Freemasons' Tavern. Â Ou...
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Football - first FA match
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
Croydon Palace A former residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury (The Great Hall rebuilt between 1443 - 1452) now the home of Old Palac...
Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond;...
Here lived Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, from 1839 - 1873.
A modern information board inside the entrance to the park states "The bronze drinking fountain of a rearing horse was designed by Sir Er...
Richardson's novel The Trap describes her time at no.6. Holyoake lived at no.4, formerly 1 Woburn Buildings, 1850 - 61.
2023: Esther Jung asked us about a date discrepancy on this inscription: both the Oxford DNB and Wikipedia give Tyndale's date of birth a...
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