Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool. One of the four Beatles, the drummer in the group, though, when asked whether Ringo was the best drummer in the world, John Lennon replied: "He's not even the best drummer in The Beatles". Cruel, John, cruel.
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Ringo Starr
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Abbey Road album - access cover
The creators of the access cover have a web page for it, where we learnt that...
Ringo Starr and Brian Epstein
We were puzzled by what seemed to be a second date but Wikipedia shows some e...
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Richmond Michael Jokhan
Richmond Michael Jokhan was born on 14 November 1959, the eldest of the five children of Benny Jokhan (1931-2023) and Bernadine Jokhan née Roberts. His birth was registered as Michael R. Jokhan in ...
1 memorial
Michael Fadil
Fadil fell into the River Lea on a freezing January evening. From Hackney Gazette: "Police were called shortly after 7pm after the man reportedly fell from a boat near to Lea Bridge and The Prince...
1 memorial
John McCormack
Lyrical tenor. Born Athlone, Ireland. Died at his home overlooking Dublin bay.
1 memorial
Mrs Jemima Luke
Writer of hymns and religious studies. Born Jemima Thompson in Islington. She planned to do missionary work in India, but illness prevented her from doing so. She married the Reverend Samuel Luke, ...
1 memorial
Argyll Rooms Concert Hall
The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. A new building was designed, as part of the Regent Street redevelopment, by John Nash himself, to provide a concert hall, other public rooms and shop space...
1 memorial
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Octavia Hill
Housing reformer and co-founder of The National Trust. Born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, her father's eighth daughter (yes, really). She believed that social housing should be small houses (rather...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, History, Property, Social Welfare
10 memorials
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
403 memorials
Rugby Football Union
Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rules were drawn up based on those of Rugby School.
1 memorial
Geraldine Mary Harmsworth
Mother of Lord Rothermere. Born in Dublin as Geraldine Mary Maffett, the daughter of an Irish land agent. 1884 married a barrister, Alfred Harmsworth, and had a number of children: Alfred, Geral...
3 memorials
Greenwich Historical Society
From the Picture source: "The Greenwich Historical Society began life as the Greenwich Antiquarian Society in 1905, merging with the Lewisham Society in 1919 to become the Greenwich and Lewisham An...
1 memorial
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