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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Sir Ralph Turner
Professor of Indian languages. Born Charlton, London. Officer in the 3rd Gurkha Rifles. Won Military Cross in Palestine. Died at home, Bishop's Stortford.
H. G. Brice
Employed at the Holloway bus/tram garage - Pemberton Gardens. Served and was killed in WW1.
Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.
Footballer. A serving soldier n WW2, he was taken prisoner and sent to a camp in Italy. He volunteered to be an engineer, but found himself being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Here he witne...
RAF apprentices and boy entrants
Royal Air Force apprentices and boy entrants, 1920 - 1993.
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Ada House
E2, Pritchard's Road, Ada House
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James Gallaher, FRAS
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Hitchcock mosaics 16 - The Wrong Man, 1956
E11, Church Lane, Leytonstone tube station
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William Thomas Carson McReynolds
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National Portrait Gallery - Fuller
WC2, Charing Cross Road
This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east...
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