The first card was designed by John Horsley. The Mail has some pictures of early Christmas cards.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Christmas cards
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Sir Henry Cole - NW3
Sir Henry Cole lived here 1879 - 1880. He originated the custom of sending Ch...
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Fish Island
An area of East London bounded by the River Lea Navigation, the Hertford Union Canal and the East Cross Route. In 1865 the land was purchased to be used as a gas works, by the Gas Light and Coke Co...
1 memorial
BBC History Project
A 2016 BB2 television series called Black and British - A Forgotten History, traced the history of black people in Britain. Following on from this, a series of plaques are being erected around Brit...
3 memorials
London District of Fitzrovia
Area of London, bordered roughly by Euston Road to the north, Oxford Street to the south, Great Portland Street to the west and Gower Street to the east. Probably named after the Fitzroy Tavern pub...
1 memorial
2 memorials
Ealing YMCA
From West London YMCA : "Our foundations can be found in a prayer meeting held by 13 young people who gathered at 4 Grove Road, Ealing, on 28 July 1870, to inaugurate a local branch of YMCA. From t...
1 memorial
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Vikings / Danes
From History.org: "The Vikings' homeland was Scandinavia: modern Norway, Sweden and Denmark. ... What we call the Viking Age, and their relationship with England, lasted from approximately 800 to 1...
1 memorial
3 memorials
Rupert Brooke
WW1 poet. Born Rugby. Joined the navy and sailed to the Med. but died on his way to Gallipoli from an infected mosquito bite, on a French hospital ship moored in the Aegean Sea. Buried in an oli...
2 memorials
Robert Hubert
A watchmaker from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London. There were many obvious flaws and impossibilities in Hubert's confession. He h...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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