Rugby League Challenge Cup
Also known as the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup. Amateur, semi-professional and professional clubs compete for it.
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Harrow Green School - Wellington Bomber crash
A Vickers Wellington MK1C aircraft crashed on the former Harrow Green school when its generator failed in bad weather, and its engines stalled. All of the plane's crew of six, as well as five Civil...
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Hatfield rail crash
A great North Eastern Railway Intercity 225 train bound for Leeds left London King's Cross station at 12.10. It was travelling along the East Coast main line when at 12.23 it derailed south of Hatf...
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Spanish Armada
Looking for a single paragraph summary we found this at Schools History: "The Spanish Armada was an invasion fleet. It set sail from Spain in May, 1588. The Spanish Armada set out to the Netherland...
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Arding and Hobbs 1909 fire
Built in 1885 Arding and Hobbs department store was the largest south of the River. See Neighbour for a photo of the building. It was destroyed by a fire on 20 December 1909.  Newspapers from the ...
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Battersea Arts Centre fire
Built as Battersea Town Hall this building became became a community arts centre in 1974.  Wikipedia has a plan of the ground floor showing the Grand Hall at the rear of the building. This, and t...
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The Beatles and the Rolling Stones first meeting
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones first met at the Crawdaddy Club on Sunday 14 April 1963.
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Fleet River floods
The River Fleet is known to have flooded in the area from St Pancras and southwards in the 13th century, and then specifically in 1317 and 1768 and then floods are recorded in 1809, 1818 and 1846. ...
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Purley air crash
A de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways, which had only just taken off from Croydon Airport bound for Paris, crashed at Purley in Surrey. All seven passengers and the pilot were killed. A ...
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Bloody Assizes
A series of trials which started at Winchester in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion. Further trials took place at Salisbury, Dorchester and Taunton, and i...
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