Rugby Union player. Born Buckinghamshire. Played for Harlequins and for England. Died just after his 21st birthday, in Lanzarote following a short illness.
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Nick Duncombe
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Nick Duncombe
{On the front of the plinth:} Nick Duncombe, 1982 - 2003. Harlequins & ...
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Mervyn Mansell
Born Arthur James Mervyn Mansell in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe). He came to England in 1937 to study pharmacy. A leading player in the Ealing Cricket Club during the 1950s. He...
1 memorial
Nobby Stiles
Football player and manager. Born Norbert Peter Stiles in Collyhurst, Manchester. He played for Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Preston North End and was in the winning England team in the 1966 W...
1 memorial
Lonsdale Belt
A boxing prize introduced by Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, to be awarded to British boxing champions. A boxer has successfully to defend his title twice before he can retain it. We have found...
1 memorial
Sir Thomas Sopwith
Aviator and aircraft manufacturer. Designed the Sopwith Camel. Aged 10 accidentally killed his father in a shooting accident. Expert ice skater and a legend in the yachting America's Cup. Born 92 C...
1 memorial
Howard Staunton
British World Chess Champion. Promoted the use of standardised chess pieces, the ones still in use today. Saw the international nature of the 1851 Great Exhibition as an opportunity and organised t...
1 memorial
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Leysian Mission
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
8 memorials
Beckenham Auxiliary firemen
BR3, Beckenham Road, 8, Beckenham Fire Station
Those killed at Old Palace School are also commemorated (not by name) on a plaque at the site of the original school, although this gives...
Civilian war dead | WW2
32 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
32 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Spicer Memorial Playground
SW1, Millbank, Victoria Tower Gardens
Our photo shows one of three drinking fountains attached to the Spicer screen wall. The weather has not been kind to the sculpture in the...
2 subjects commemorated,
3 creators
John Logie Baird & Television broadcast
WC2, Long Acre, 132
The plaque is on number 132 but Seven Dials and Research Gate say his flat/studio was at number 133, to the left (west) of the site of th...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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