HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From her website "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... In 1922 she was saved for the nation and placed permanently into dry dock where she remains today." In Portsmouth.
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HMS Victory
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Hurlingham Yacht Club
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know...
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Foreign nationals at the Battle of Trafalgar
The popular image of the navy in Nelson's time, is of ships manned solely by 'British Tars'. In fact the crews of the ships that fought at Trafalgar included sailors from America, Ireland, Prussia,...
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Covent Garden donkeys
WC2, Southampton Street, Jubilee Market Hall
Covent Garden Area Trust has an interesting page about the unveiling ceremony.
Jawaharlal Nehru
First Prime Minister of independent India. Born Allahabad, India. Father of Mrs Indira Gandhi. Popularly known as Pandit(ji) which means "scholar".
Beechwood - William Sebright
E2, Coate Street
Beechwood House This building was built in 1948 by the London County Council and was named after Beechwood in Bedfordshire the home of Wi...
Lord Haldane
SW1, Queen Anne's Gate, 26
Lord Haldane, 1856 - 1928, statesman, lawyer and philosopher, lived here. London County Council
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