The joint (along with Scotland) oldest national football team in the world. Its greatest success was winning the 1966 World Cup Championship - something it has been struggling to repeat ever since.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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England Football Team
The Heritage Foundation website mentions a plaque to him unveiled in 2000 by ...
Laurie Cunningham, 1956 - 1989, football legend, pioneering England internati...
Ron Greenwood, CBE, 1921 - 2006, manager of West Ham United and England. Spor...
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
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Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
Founded by munitions workers in Woolwich, under the name 'Dial Square'. This was the name of the Royal Arsenal complex where they worked, and also explains the team's nickname of 'The Gunners'. The...
Founded by William Shipley as the "Society of Arts" in Rawthmell's Coffee House. They carried on meeting in coffee houses and taverns but as the society grew they needed more space. Shipley rented ...
Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A sportsman: a boxer, a cricketer who once dismissed W. G. Grace. The first Englishman to...
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