Boxer. Won the English heavyweight prize-fighting championship in 1800, retaining it until 1805. His younger brother Tom was also an accomplished boxer.
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Jim Belcher (or Jem)
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The Round Table
Round Table The neighbourhood of St. Martins Lane was, in the middle of the ...
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Arsenal Football Club Supporters
Often referred to as 'Gooners', being a play on the team's nickname of the 'Gunners'.
2 memorials
Olympic Games - 1948
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The second time London had hosted, 1908 being the first. The 1948 Olympics came to be known as the "Aus...
1 memorial
Fields in Trust
From their website: "We were founded by HRH The Duke of York, later HM King George VI, in 1925 as the National Playing Fields Association and are proud of our long heritage protecting parks and gre...
4 memorials
Tom Cribb
Bare-knuckle fighter. Born at Hanham, Gloucestershire. He moved to London at the age of 13 and worked as a bell-hanger and coal porter. Following his first two fights in 1805, he decided to become ...
2 memorials
John Lyall
Footballer and football manager. Born John Angus Lyall in Ilford, Essex. He joined West Ham United as a groundstaff boy in 1955, played for the youth team and was promoted to the main squad in 1959...
1 memorial
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