A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success partly because the clay ground was not suitable and partly because the local population (slum-dwellers, basically) unlike today, was also not suitable. The land was leased from the Ladbroke Estate and when the business failed the Estate built the current leafy streets.
Great post from Londonist.
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Kensington Hippodrome
This kiln is a reminder of the 19th century when potteries and brickfields we...
St. Johns Church was built in 1845 in the early English gothic style by John ...
British World Chess Champion. Promoted the use of standardised chess pieces, the ones still in use today. Saw the international nature of the 1851 Great Exhibition as an opportunity and organised t...
The prize for a rowing race for Thames watermen. Claimed as the oldest race in the world, it was founded by Thomas Doggett in 1715, to commemorate the anniversary of the accession of King George I...
The house and gardens of what is now 694a High Road E11 have had a complicated series of uses which we have not bottomed out. The house and/or either of the two buildings in the front garden and/or...
Group, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games
Fencing master and coach. Born in Timișoara, Romania. In 1956 he moved to Israel where he served in the air force and attended the National Sport Academy, where he studied fencing. Representing Isr...
Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Romania
Boxer. Started boxing at The Ring, Blackfriars Road. British Lightweight Champion, 1924-25. The picture source gives his fight history and at Rootsweb we found: “... prominent boxer and lightwei...
George Grote was born on 20 June 1888 in Whitechapel, Middlesex (now Greater London), the fourth of the eight children of Alexander Grote (1857-1896) and Ellen Grote née Fowler (1858-1900). His bir...
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