1948

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 "Austerity Games" due to the difficult economic climate and rationing imposed following WW2. No new venues were built for the games. Events took place mainly at Wembley Stadium, also known as Empire Stadium, and the Empire Pool at Wembley Park. Basketball and other indoor events were held at the Harringay Arena. Field hockey preliminaries took place at the Lyons' Sports Club, Sudbury. Athletes were housed in existing accommodation in the Wembley area.

Germany and Japan were not invited to participate.

2024: The Guardian reported "Wooden sauna from 1948 London Olympics gets Grade II listing". It's in Aylesford near Maidstone, Kent.

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Olympic Games - 1948

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Olympic Way - 2023 plaque

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W. Stuart Surridge

Born Walter Stuart Surridge at Herne Hill. First-class cricketer who played for Surrey, who won the title every year he was captain, 1952-6. Died Derbyshire on a visit to his family's bat-making fa...

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Tour de France

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Event, Sport / Games, France

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Efraim Zinger

Chair, Israel Olympic Committee

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Edmond Hoyle

Writer on games. Wrote his first book, "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" in 1742. Died in London.

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Tom Sayers

Boxer Born Pimlico. Worked as a bricklayer building King's Cross Station. Became the first "world champion" boxer. Defeated only once, in a fight that lasted 61 rounds. His 1860 fight with the Amer...

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Twyford C. of E. High School

Set up by the London Diocesan Board for Schools. It opened as a result of a concerted campaign by local parents. The admission criteria for the school favour students from practising Christian or o...

Place, Education

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Paul Raphael Montford

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Sir Horace Perkins Hamilton, GCB

Horace Perkins Hamilton was born on 20 November 1880 at 34 Hardinge Road, Ashford, Kent, the only child of Horace Hamilton (1845-1917) and Elizabeth Hamilton née Kitching (1847-1911). His birth was...

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Lippincott's Magazine

Monthly magazine. Published in Philadelphia until 1915 when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916. It published original works, general a...

Fiction, Journalism / Publishing, USA

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