Managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. He started working temporarily for the club while still a boy, and worked his way up through the ranks.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. He started working temporarily for the club while still a boy, and worked his way up through the ranks.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Cyclist. Born Bradley Marc Wiggins in Ghent, Belgium where his English mother and Australian father, a professional cyclist, were living at the time. Bradley was brought up in Kilburn/Maida Vale by...
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From British History on-line: "In the reign of Henry VIII., when Shoreditch was still a mere waste of fields, dotted with windmills and probably, like Islington (fields, much frequented by archers...
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