Erection date: 20/1/2008
John Lyall, 1940 - 2006, manager of West Ham United 1974 - 1989.
Sports Heritage
E13, Green Street, Boleyn Ground
This stadium was demolished in 2016 and we can't find out what happened to the plaques so we have marked them all as lost.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Lyall
London based football team, known as 'The Hammers'. Founded by Arnold Hills (...
Footballer and football manager. Born John Angus Lyall in Ilford, Essex. He j...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Lyall
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
John Lyall
{Beneath the West Ham United crest:} The West Ham United Museum was opened by...
The plaque says the rescue occurred ‘near to this place’, when in fact it happened at the ‘World’s End’ area of Chelsea which is about ha...
We'd given up the original plaque as lost, and had never even seen the second one, until 2022 when Londonist reported on this arrangement...
Each of these foundation stones is at the base of a pillar, reading left to right: Peters, Rowlands, Lewis, Taylor. Disappointingly we h...
Discovering London took great delight in proving that the "cells" in the pub next door, the Viaduct, are, contrary to urban myth, nothing...
The first church on this site was built as a Catholic chapel to serve the Portuguese Embassy behind it, in Golden Square.
Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust, 1993 - 2004. Lord Mayor of London in 1989. The picture comes from his niece's obituary webpage.
Lord Lieutenant of the City of London in 1939; Sheriff of the City of London in 1985; and Lord Mayor of London 1969 - 1970.
Alastair Sim, 1900 - 1976, actor, lived here, 1953 - 1975. English Heritage
Born in London. Notable works: Regent Street, Royal Opera Arcade and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Much of his work was for the Prince Regent but we've heard that Mrs Nash gave birth to an illegiti...
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