Managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. He started working temporarily for the club while still a boy, and worked his way up through the ranks.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. He started working temporarily for the club while still a boy, and worked his way up through the ranks.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Athlete, politician and broadcaster. Born in Chelsea. He was one of the pacemakers when Roger Bannister ran the mile in under four minutes, and was the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1...
Person, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games, TV & Radio
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 ...
Footballer and soldier. He started his football career with Sunderland District Amateur League sides Braeside and Sunderland West End, and joined Clapton Orient in July 1908. At the outbreak of WW1...
Football player and manager. Martin Stanford Peters was born on 8 November 1943 in Egham Road, Plaistow. He played for several teams, principally West Ham United and went on to manage Sheffield Un...
Rower. Born Buckinghamshire. Won Olympic gold: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 - this man can row! But what his connection is to Southwark or the South Bank, we can not discover.
Michael David Rock was a photographer of rock acts in the 1970s. Born Hammersmith possibly (records differ) with the surname Rock which would give him a serious case of nominative determinism. Oth...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
Employed at the Streatham bus garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
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