From British History on-line: "In the reign of Henry VIII., when Shoreditch was still a mere waste of fields, dotted with windmills and probably, like Islington (fields, much frequented by archers, for practising at roving marks), the burly king conferred on an archer of Shoreditch, named Barlow, who had pleased him at some wondrous competition at Windsor, the jocular title of Duke of Shoreditch."
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Barlow, 'Duke of Shoreditch'
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Charles Square mural - archery
The section of the mural to the left of our photo shows archery butts set up ...
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Lawn tennis
Invented, developed and patented by Wingfield. The Wimbledon championships began in 1877 and are the world's oldest tennis tournament.
1 memorial
Thomas Johns Tucker
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Bill Richmond
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1 memorial
Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking, MBE
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1 memorial
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
Founder of the USSR. Born and died in Russia. Political theorist and Communist revolutionary. Reviewing a book on Lenin in the Observer, 23 October 2016, Nigel Jones wrote: "... once in power Lenin...
6 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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