HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From her website "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... In 1922 she was saved for the nation and placed permanently into dry dock where she remains today." In Portsmouth.
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HMS Victory
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Hurlingham Yacht Club
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know...
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Established in 1903 it continued until 1958 when all British naval reserve forces were amalgamated and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) was absorbed into the much larger Royal Naval Reserve...
1 memorial
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Admiral, Sir Charles Adam, KCB
Naval officer. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, July 1847 until his death. Died at Greenwich.
1 memorial
Frederick Parslow, VC
Born Islington. Mercantile marine, Captain of the SS Anglo-Californian. Died in a German submarine attack off the Irish coast. His son, also Frederick, who was on the ship as the second mate, took...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Hampstead fire station
Tetramesh has a 1906 photo of this building showing that there used to be more to the tower.
2 memorials
Sailors' Home - Ensign Street & Dock Street
A group of philanthropists, led by Rev. George Charles ‘Boatswain’ Smith (1782–1863) founded the Destitute Sailors' Asylum in 1827, based in a converted warehouse in Dock Street and providing shelt...
1 memorial
The Black Cap
Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...
1 memorial
Margaret Nakajima
E1, Elder Gardens
We don't know when the tree was planted but presume it was a sapling at the time. We photographed it in 2013 so anyone who knows their tr...
1 subject commemorated
County Hall - frieze
SE1, Belvedere Road, County Hall
The dates add up because the LCC only moved here in 1922.
2 subjects commemorated
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