Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...

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Treena Chappell was born on 18 August 1970, the younger child of Terence Chappell and Mary Chappell née Keaveney and her birth was registered in the Westminster registration district. Her brother, ...

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J. A. Ross

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Churchill - E11

E11, Wanstead High Street

We think the thickness of the neck has been overdone, even for Churchill. British Pathe have some very dull footage from 1966 of this bus...

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George Odger

Shoemaker and trade unionist. Born in Roborough, South Devon. His year of birth on the plaque (1820) contradicts most other sources. He was an itinerant shoemaker for several years before moving to...

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Geoffrey Finsberg

Conservative politician. Born London. Died Stockholm, there making a speech.

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