Event    From 27/7/2012  To 12/8/2012

Olympic Games - 2012

Categories: Sport / Games

See also 2012 Paralympics. The first event was held on 25 July in Cardiff but the opening ceremony in London was on the 27th. Closing ceremony 12 August.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Olympic Games - 2012

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2012 Commemorations - Blackheath

The names on the outer circumference sound as though they are areas of Blackh...

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2012 Olympics Bell

The quotation, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', was spoken by Kenneth Branag...

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Charlotte Dujardin gold post box

{On plaque attached to side of box:} This post box has been painted gold by R...

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Chaucer and Aldgate

{On a worn notice stuck to the pavement immediately below the wooden structur...

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Chinese Polo Players

{On a nearby ornamental base:} 2012 London Polo. By Huang Jian, China China i...

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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
Gwilym Jones

Gwilym Jones

A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.

Person, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
George Scott

George Scott

Footballer and soldier. He started his football career with Sunderland District Amateur League sides Braeside and Sunderland West End, and joined Clapton Orient in July 1908. At the outbreak of WW1...

Person, Armed Forces, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Mark Slavin

Mark Slavin

Wrestler. Born in Minsk, Belarus SSR. Winner of the Soviet Greco-Roman wrestling middleweight junior championship in 1971. He moved to Israel to join their Olympic team. Murdered by Palestinian ter...

Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine

1 memorial
Daniel Mendoza

Daniel Mendoza

Pugilist.  Born in the Aldgate parish, date uncertain (possibly 1765). Champion who proudly billed himself as 'Mendoza the Jew'.   He also taught the sport and wrote 'The Art of Boxing', published ...

Person, Sport / Games

2 memorials

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Henry Lincoln

Henry Lincoln

From British History Online: ".. the Lincoln Almshouses. Henry Lincoln, by his will proved in 1912, left £1,300 in trust to build five small almshouses to be let at low rents to people over 50 year...

Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Ambrose Neale

Ambrose Neale

From Statues Hither and Thither: " (ca. 1868 - Brockworth 1930 [car accident]), chief artist of Messrs. R. L. Boulton & Sons." Information about the Boulton firm at btsarnia. Our colleague, An...

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Dudley Gordon Mills

Dudley Gordon Mills

Chairman Streets Committee, City of London, 1959 and 1963. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Dudley Gordon Mills was born on 5 February 1908 in Leyton, Essex, the second of the three sons of W...

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Sydney H. Waterlow

Sir Sydney H. Waterlow

Philanthropist. Born in Crown Street, now Sun Street, EC2. Brought up in Mile End. Followed his father and brothers into the stationery and printing business. 1963 founded, and chaired, the philan...

Person, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration

5 memorials
Mary Watts

Mary Watts

Born as Mary Seton Fraser Tytler in India but brought up in Scotland. 1886 married G. F. Watts. Co-founded the Compton Potters' Arts Guild and the Arts & Crafts Guild in Compton, Surrey. There ...

Person, Craft / Design, India, Scotland

37 memorials