Group    From 1885 

London Welsh RFC

Categories: Sport / Games

Countries: Wales

The club was formed in 1885 to cater to ex-pat Welsh rugby players living in London. Following a successful period they turned professional in 2009 and moved to Oxford in 2012. However this was financially unsustainable and the club returned to Richmond in 2015 and went into liquidation in 2016.  An amateur club emerged from the ashes.

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London Welsh RFC

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London Welsh Rugby club - WW1

Unusually the plaque gives the birth and death years for each name. From a W...

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Old Deer Park clubhouse

This clubhouse was built in 1969 with funds given by members and friends of t...

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Kenny Sansom

Kenny Sansom

Footballer. Most of his professional career was spent playing for Arsenal Football Club, and until 2011 he was the most capped player for the England team. He went on to play for several other club...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Sam Bartram

Sam Bartram

Goalkeeper and football manager. After school he became a miner, and played in non-league football. In 1934, he was spotted by a scout from Charlton Athletic and was offered a place on the team, pl...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Sir Henry Cooper

Sir Henry Cooper

Heavyweight boxer. Born in Lambeth. Affectionately known as 'Our 'Enery', he started his boxing career as an amateur in 1949. After turning professional, he went on to become British, European and ...

Person, Sport / Games

3 memorials
Nicola Adams

Nicola Adams

Boxer. Born in Leeds. She fought (and won) her first bout at the age of thirteen. She won several medals in her career, before becoming the first woman boxer to win a medal in the 2012 Olympic Game...

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial

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Bethnal Green Town Hall

Bethnal Green Town Hall

E2, Cambridge Heath Road

This 1910 Town Hall is by Percy Robinson with W. Alban Jones. Sculpture is by Henry Poole. The 1939 eastern extension is by E. C. P. Monson.

19 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
Chelsea Embankment - Old Church

Chelsea Embankment - Old Church

SW3, Chelsea Embankment

There were at least 3 designs for lamps along the Thames Embankments. This one, by Timothy Butler, was used rarely so it is a pleasure to...

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
John Passmore Edwards

John Passmore Edwards

Political and social reformer, politician, peace activist, and anti-slavery campaigner he became one of the most successful newspaper proprietors of his time. Born in a small Cornish village and ed...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Peace, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Social Welfare

13 memorials
Holy Trinity Priory

Holy Trinity Priory

Demolished by Henry VIII as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. Our picture shows the ruins as they were in 1826. c.1485 the priory built Bromley Hall, a manor house near the River Lea, st...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
Austin Dobson

Austin Dobson

Poet and essayist. Born Henry Austin Dobson at Plymouth, Devon. He spent his entire working life at the Board of Trade. His first poems were published in 1868. In 1876 he and a group of other poets...

Person, Literature, Poetry

1 memorial