Sports and leisure club.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
The Brentham Club
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Fred Perry - Meadvale Road
Plaque unveiled by Roger Draper, Chief Executive of the Lawn Tennis Association.
Other Subjects
Rev. E. K. Douglas
Vicar of St Mary of Eton, the Eton Mission, appointed in 1889 and, finding that boys playing football in Victoria Park was problematic, he set in motion the acquisition of 337 acres of Hackney Mars...
1 memorial
Olympic Games 1908, & Stadium
The original plan was that Italy would host these games but in 1906 they dropped out, partly due to the consequential costs of the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Within a week the IOC accepted B...
1 memorial
Barlow, 'Duke of Shoreditch'
From British History on-line: "In the reign of Henry VIII., when Shoreditch was still a mere waste of fields, dotted with windmills and probably, like Islington (fields, much frequented by archers...
1 memorial
Islington Boat Club
The club has provided safe boating for thousands of youngsters on City Road Basin.
1 memorial
Monopoly
Evolved from a number of property games but had reached its final form by 1934. Initially marketed with New York place names by Parker Brothers very successfully in America. Waddingtons were grante...
1 memorial
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Second Lieutenant Reginald Blencowe Bayliss
Reginald Blencowe Bayliss was born on 9 June 1894 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, one of the four children of Archibald Bayliss (1854-1942) and Mary James Bayliss née Shrimpton (1860-1930). His b...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Herbert Asquith - NW3
NW3, Maresfield Gardens, 27
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1852 - 1928, Prime Minister, lived here. Erected by the Hampstead Plaque Fund
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Admiral, Sir R. Goodwin Keats, GCB
Naval officer. Born Hampshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1821 until his death there. The Greenwich monument has his name spelt 'Keates'; all other sources have 'Keats'.
1 memorial
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