Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Cowie
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John Franklin statue
{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...
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Francis Dunn
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
William Hedges
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
George H. Hodgson
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Captain John Smith
Citizen and cordwainer (cobbler), first among the leaders of the settlement at Jamestown, Virginia from which began the overseas expansion of the English speaking peoples. Born Lancashire. 16 year...
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Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Maya Angelou
Author and poet. Born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St Louis, Missouri, USA. She died, aged 86 years, on 28 May 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA. Her body was cr...
Hurlingham Yacht Club
SW15, Deodar Road, 43a
1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know what it was previously called. We can't discover the conne...
Dr. Ian Goodson Wickes
MA, MD, FRCP, DCH. Chief Assistant Childrens Department, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1946 - 1951. June 2009 we found this at Mike Kemble :"Ed Goodson has the following request for information: Can...
Smithfield Poultry Market
The original poultry market by Horace Jones was opened in 1875 but destroyed by fire in 1958. Our page for that fire has an image of the original building. The new building has a concrete elliptic...
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