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
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
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. Ou...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Football - first FA match
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
London County Council William Pitt the younger, 1759 - 1806, lived here, 1803 - 1804.
Note that the bomb is not actually mentioned on the memorial.
The corridor with the two busts, plaque and glass display area is on the ground floor of the Hunter wing.
These plaques are attached to the north-west tower and also the south-east tower, all duplicated except for "opened to the public" which ...
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