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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Other Subjects

Eddie Ingram

Eddie Ingram

Cricketer. Born Edward Ingram in Dublin. Made his debut for the Ireland cricket team ten days before his 18th birthday. He began playing county cricket for Middlesex in 1938. Died Basingstoke, Hamp...

Person, Sport / Games, Ireland

1 memorial
Tonbridge Club

Tonbridge Club

From Tony Jauncey: "Tonbridge club in Judd Street was founded after WW2 by a local vicar for the boys of King's Cross and surrounding area, to get them off the street and channel their energy into ...

Group, Children, Community / Clubs, Sport / Games

1 memorial
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
Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking, MBE

Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking, MBE

Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking and Katherine Sarah Copeland (b.1990) won the gold medal in the 2012 Olympics in the Rowing: Lightweight - Women's Double Sculls, held at Dorney Lake, Court Lane, o...

Person, Law, Sport / Games

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