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...
L.C.C. Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer (1868-1912), lived here.
Thomas Cubitt, 1788 - 1855, master builder, lived here. London County Council
The Whitsun Weddings (recalling a train journey on Whitsun Saturday afternoon in 1955) was voted one of the "Nation's Top 100 Poems" in 1...
Strangely, there are two identical blue plaques, either side of the entrance.
These plaques are to the north of the fountain in the front garden of Wandsworth Town Hall, on Fairfield Street. The time capsule stone i...
Built as a Congregational church and opened on 29 June 1836, this building is at the north corner of Claylands Road and Claylands Place (just south of the Oval). In 1845 it was renovated and capaci...
men of the Parish of Our Lady of Willesden killed in WW2
This double plaque, the foundation stone, is under the window on the right. Quite where the scroll was deposited (behind the plaque in t...
Rather than risk life and limb in trying to get to the central reservation, we have borrowed a photograph. The latin name Quercus Robur translates as 'hardy oak'. The cultivar 'Fastigiata' is diffe...
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early p...
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