On this very site Ping Pong created & patented by John Jaques III, 1901.
EC1, Holborn, 121
The plaque is above the shop name 'Bounce'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ping pong
Businessman. Founder of the John Jaques and Son Toy Company, which produced a...
This probably isn't a City of London plaque - though blue and oblong, the proportions are wrong, the style is different and its anonymous.
The left hand edge of the plaque can just be seen in our photo, on the set-back wall towards the left. The whole block is occupied by St...
This is visually just a modern information board but the information is more interesting than usual so we've collected it. For our photo...
London County Council Sir Flinders Petrie, 1853 - 1942, Egyptologist, lived here.
Before 1913 when Hilda Doolittle married Richard Aldington they were all living in this street: Pound at no. 10, Doolittle at no. 6, and ...
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