American car designer, racing driver and entrepreneur. Born Texas. Suffered with a heart condition all his life. Worked with AC Cars Limited to produce the AC Cobra, which he imported into the States where it is often known as the Shelby Cobra.
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Royal Carriage Department
The Royal Brass Foundry in Woolwich was already producing carriages as well as guns but in 1803-5 a building dedicated to carriages was constructed - see picture. John's Military History, the sour...
Gerald Holtom
Artist and designer of the peace symbol in 1958. Graduated from the Royal College of Arts. Conscientious objector in WW2. In 1958 he was working for the Ministry of Education. On 21 February 1958 ...
Dame Lucie Rie
Potter. Née Gompertz in Vienna into a rich, intellectual family. 1938 she and her husband fled Nazism intending to go to the USA but Lucie, already more interested in her work than her husband, dec...
Francis Owen Salisbury
Painter. Born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Known as Frank, his forte was in portraiture and he also painted over forty large canvases of historical and national events. He also produced a large qua...
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W. H. Walkley
Churchwarden at Mary Magdelene Church, Islington 1894.
Charles William Patrick Staff
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided the following research: Charles William Patrick Staff was born on 4 November 1916 in Poplar, the only ...
Rotherhithe war memorial
SE16, St Marychurch Street, St Mary the Virgin Church
The Rotherhithe people were prescient or just lucky. The way they had worded the text for their WW1 memorial meant that all they had to ...
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