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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Eton Mission Rowing Club

Eton Mission Rowing Club

From Hear the Boat Sing: "EMRC has a fascinating history and was started in the East London docklands in the late 19th century by a group of old Etonians, who saw it as their mission to help boys i...

Group, Children, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Fields in Trust

Fields in Trust

From their website: "We were founded by HRH The Duke of York, later HM King George VI, in 1925 as the National Playing Fields Association and are proud of our long heritage protecting parks and gre...

Group, Sport / Games

4 memorials
Steve Redgrave

Steve Redgrave

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.

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Eliezer Halfin

Eliezer Halfin

Wrestler. Born in Riga, Latvia. He was a mechanic and was a lightweight wrestler for eleven years. He came to Israel in 1969, and was selected for the country's team for the 1972 Olympic Games in M...

Person, Sport / Games, Tragedy, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Latvia

1 memorial
Doggett's Coat and Badge

Doggett's Coat and Badge

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...

Event, Sport / Games

1 memorial

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Thanet House / Shaftesbury House

Thanet House / Shaftesbury House

Nos. 35-38 Aldersgate Street, built by Inigo Jones. From British History Online: “formerly the London residence of the Tuftons, Earls of Thanet. From them it passed into the family of that clever a...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Guy Crawley
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
88 Arlington Road

88 Arlington Road

NW1, Arlington Road, 88

88 Arlington Road This building stands on the site of the Bedford Tavern (1807) famous for the balloon ascents from its Tea Gardens. He...

3 subjects commemorated
Faranak

Faranak

Artist based in Lambeth, active c.2018.

Person, Art

17 memorials
Harold Glass
War dead, WW1
1 memorial