Communist revolutionary and founder of modern Vietnam. Left Vietnam in 1911 and worked on ships as a kitchen helper. In New York he was a baker at the Parker House Hotel. In 1913 he arrived in London and in 1914 worked in the kitchens at the Drayton Court Hotel in The Avenue, West Ealing. He also trained to be a pastry chef under Escoffier at the Carlton, where Mae West remembered meeting him. You couldn't make it up.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Ho Chi Minh
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Emiliano Zapata
Leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. Born Mexico and died ther...
1 memorial
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian patriot. Born Genoa. Died Pisa. An exile in London for much of his life from 1837 onwards. Byronico has information about 10 addresses where he lived in London. He often stayed near, or wi...
4 memorials
Francisco de Miranda
Born Caracas, Venezuela. Died in jail in Cadiz, Spain.
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Spain, Venezuela
4 memorials
Simon Bolivar
"El libertador". Born Caracas. Latin American statesman and patriot who worked to liberated Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru & Venezuela from Spanish rule. In London briefly in 1810. Di...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
5 memorials
General Pasquale Paoli
Fought to free Corsica from France. Born Corsica. Exiled in London 1770 - 1780 and again 1795 until his death in London. At the Burdett-Coutts memorial, where his name is given as "Paschalis de Pao...
2 memorials
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War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Camp Griffiss / Widewing
WW2 US military base in Bushy Park named after the first American aviator killed in Europe in WW2. Four blocks of temporary buildings were constructed in 60 acres in the north-east section of Bush...
18 memorials
Samuel Morley
Born Well Street Hackney into a Nottingham family of wool/hosiery manufacturers and merchants. His father John, had come to London to set up an outlet for their products. Samuel went into the famil...
Person, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion
3 memorials
Stanley Cup
Wikipedia, our picture source, tell you all you need to know about the Stanley Cup, even the name of the silversmith from whom Lord Stanley bought it, G. R. Collis and Company (now Boodle and Dunth...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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