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National Sporting Club
Founded by John Fleming and A. F. "Peggy" Bettinson. First president Hugh Cecil Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale. It became the home of modern glove boxing, with bouts taking place in silence, after...
Coalbrookdale Company
An iron foundry set up by Abraham Darby in Shropshire. Can you guess what the Coalbrookdale war memorial is made of?
London Hydraulic Power Company
Set up to install a network of water mains that would deliver hydraulic power through the use of water under high pressure, water from the Thames. The network extended from Hyde Park to Docklands ...
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Freemason VCs - Z3 - Sinton, Smyth, Stuart
WC2, Great Queen Street, Freemasons' Hall
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
4 subjects commemorated
Pepys - Stew Lane
EC4, Stew Lane
This page of Pepys' Diary is given at The Diary of Samuel Pepys with lots of explanatory links.
PP - 4N - Lucas
EC1, Edward Street
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
R. Fus. (C. of L. Regt) 1st Batn. - London Regt T.F. 2/1st Bn. 3/1st Bn. & 1 Res. Bn.
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) 1st Batn. - London Regt T.F. 2/1st Bn. 3/1st Bn. & 1 Res. Bn.
Robert Napier statue - SW7
SW7, Queen's Gate
We have a query concerning the designe of this statue . . . Firstly, note that in 1883 Boehm had already produced a similar Napier statu...
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