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...
Number 89 is the house with the white porch on the left of the photograph, and number 85 is the white house with the green door. Hidden ...
Gilbert Bayes, 1872 - 1953, sculptor, lived here 1931 - 1953. English Heritage
Looking at the cafe picture: - The war damage plaque is on the wall that you can just see on the left. - On the right you can see one o...
John Masefield, OM, 1878 - 1967, poet laureate, lived here, 1907 - 1912. English Heritage
When we first visited in 2016 the building was undergoing renovations and was surrounded by hoardings, which sported a useful information...
This is the foundation stone for the second wing of the Institute. She returned on 31 May 1924 to open the Institute.
The structure is a reasonably standard late Victorian drinking fountain, in granite, with a basin for humans and a bowl lower down for do...
Francis Owen Salisbury "Frank" 1874 - 1962 Artist, mural and portrait painter recorder of scenes of magnificent pageantry and historic ev...
Chislehurst Caves People came from across London and north west Kent to shelter here during the Blitz. At the height of the bombardment b...
We've found confirmation that Emma was a real person (check the details on her Subject page) and we'd guess that she was, at one time, a ...
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