Ping Pong
Sport. Also known as gossima, indoor tennis, table tennis, wiff-waff or whiff-whaff. The John Jaques and Son Company were producing equipment in the 1890s, and patented the game in 1901.  Its origi...
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WW2 aircraft crash
The story of this crash is very well told at Their Last Night.  Here we give a brief summary. The plane was a a Mark 5 Halifax No DK 253 of 427 Squadron based at Leeming, Yorkshire.  It was one o...
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Battle of Arnhem
In WW2, during Operation Market Garden, the British 1st Airborne Division and the Poish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were given the task of securing the bridge at Arnhem. They were parachuted ...
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Shire of Mornington centenary
Created as New Mornington it was renamed on 19 January 1894 as the Shire of Mornington.
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300 years of Anglo-Dutch Maritine Friendship
Both sea-faring, Protestant nations, relations have been pretty good since William of Orange was invited to take the British throne in 1688.
Event, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Netherlands
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Battle of Mareth
In Southern Tunisia.  Also known as the Battle of the Horseshoe.  To quote the plaque: "History records this as one of the greatest and most terrible battles fought by the Regiment in the Second Wo...
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Battle of Waterloo
Just like a Hollywood movie that doesn't know when to end, Napoleon escaped from Elba, and returned for one last attempt at world domination. The memorial at the station refers to the "Allied armie...
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New River Loop - restoration
London Gardens Trust says "In 1890 the portion of the New River around Enfield village was piped underground, thereby making this stretch redundant. It was saved from being filled in by a public ca...
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Anzac Cove landing
Part of the Gallipoli campaign of WW1.  Opposed by the Ottoman Turkish defenders, troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli peninsula.  The assault did not go as...
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Fleming Court flats opened
Built by the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington Architects’ Department, or the LCC depending on source.
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