Aged 25. London cycle courier for Olympic killed by a left-turning skip lorry. Driver acquitted.
Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: John Paul Ellis was born on 15 February 1964 in Ireland. He died as a result of a road traffic collision at the junction of Greys Inn Road and Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1, aged 25 years, on 14 June 1964. He was buried in the Front Section, Left Side, Row 16, of the Redford Cemetery, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland.
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Paul Ellis
A London cycle courier died near this spot. Paul Ellis, 14.06.89
A web manager and trade union representative at London Metropolitan University, Unison have a memorial page for him. Killed in a all too familiar 'left-hook' collision, unseen by a lorry turning l...
Active in the queer arts community, once photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Vogue. Brixton was aged 41 when, cycling to work, a lorry crashed into her and she and died at the scene. According to t...
This photo was attached to the tree when we visited. The hairstyle is a Mohawk or Mohican, a Punk fashion from the 1980's. Price would have been aged 13-23 years at that time so we think the photo ...
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Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
Comedy actor. Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Worked as a diamond sorter and th...
The church, dating back to the 9th century, was destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. The parsonage survived until at least 1762.
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) antarctic explorer, lived here. L.C.C.
Footballer and football manager. Born John Angus Lyall in Ilford, Essex. He joined West Ham United as a groundstaff boy in 1955, played for the youth team and was promoted to the main squad in 1959...
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