The Automobile Association, originally set up to help motorists avoid police speed traps, opened its first office in Fleet Street in 1905.
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Garraways Coffee House
Garraway claimed to be the first to sell tea to the public, but not, as far as we can tell, at the Change Alley site, where he moved his coffee house after the Great Fire of 1666, replacing another...
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Vernon Hall
It occupied the building that once was Bow Public Library. We can find find no further information about its function, nor who Vernon was.
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Hindle House Community / Hindle House War Memorial Project
Our plan shows the Hindle House estate with the central Community Centre surrounded by the residential blocks, shaded yellow. 197 flats built in 1938-9 as council flats. A WW2 bomb fell on 18 Septe...
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Rocky Byron
"... Notting Hill Carnival ... One of the oldest participants was 74-year-old Rocky Byron from Hackney who was dressed as a witch doctor following the Flamboyan float." "… notable member of Flambo...
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Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd.
Steel producer, originating in Grimsby, and bridge builder from the 1920s. Nationalised and subsumed into the government-owned British Steel Corporation in 1967. Wikipedia has a list of their brid...
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Robert, Lord Clive, Clive of India
Soldier and administrator. Born Shropshire. With the East India Company he effectively founded the British Empire. Spent much of his adult life in India, making his fortune there and becoming Gover...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Bengal, India
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Carl Maria von Weber
Born Eutin, Germany, died London, from tuberculosis. A sick man he came to London to write the English opera Oberon which received an enthusiastic reception at Covent Garden in April 1826.
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