Group    From 1860 

Thames Rowing Club

Categories: Sport / Games

Founded as 'The City of London Rowing Club'. It was a pioneer in women's rowing.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Thames Rowing Club

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Steve Fairbairn

{Medallion on an obelisk, with a portrait:} Steve Fairbairn, 1862 1938. {Pl...

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Lawn tennis

Lawn tennis

Invented, developed and patented by Wingfield.  The Wimbledon championships began in 1877 and are the world's oldest tennis tournament.

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1 memorial
Bobby Charlton

Bobby Charlton

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Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
The Ring / Surrey Chapel / Rowland Hill's Chapel

The Ring / Surrey Chapel / Rowland Hill's Chapel

On the site now occupied by TfL's Palastre House.  Built in fields as an octagonal independent chapel by Reverend Rowland Hill, no relative to Sir Rowland Hill, although the PO man is said to have ...

Building, Sport / Games

4 memorials
Sebastian Earl

Sebastian Earl

We really don't know if the Sebastian Earl who unveiled the stone at the Hornsey YMCA is the rowing businessman with the same name but the dates look right and it's an unusual name. Our colleague, ...

Person, Commerce, Sport / Games

1 memorial
John Lewis Williams

John Lewis Williams

A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.

Person, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial