Racing driver. Born James Simon Wallis Hunt in Belmont, Surrey. Known for his daring on the race track, he was nicknamed 'Hunt the Shunt' (Shunt being a racing term for a crash). He won the Formula 1 world Championship in 1976. Retiring from racing in 1979, he became a commentator on Grands Prix. Died suddenly from a heart attack.
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James Hunt
James Hunt lived here, 1980 - 1982. Nos. 7 & 8 Normand Mews. World Formul...
Football manager. He founded Dulwich Hamlet Football Club, and was nicknamed 'Pa', because of his paternalistic attitude to his team players, and, we're only guessing, perhaps the players found "Lo...
Boxer. Born a slave in Richmondtown, Staten Island, New York. He become a servant of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, a lieutenant-general in the British army, and it is presumed that he bec...
Harringay Arena was a sporting and events venue. Built in 1936 by Alfred Critchley who had, in 1927, built the open-air Harringay Stadium, a major greyhound racing and motorcycle speedway venue. Th...
Building, Animals, Music / songs, Religion, Sport / Games, Theatre
A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success partly because the clay ground was not suitable and partly because the local population (slum-dwellers, basically) unlike ...
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
This page brings together all the memorials that we have for civilians killed in London by acts of war, including terrorism. It is related to a very interesting campaign for a Citizens Memorial "to...
Charlotte Mew, 1869 - 1928, poet, lived here, 1869 - 1890. Marchmont Association
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