This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First WW2 bomb on City of London
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First City bomb in WW2
On this site at 12.15 am on the 25th August 1940 fell the first bomb on the C...
First City bomb in WW2 - lost
The black and white photo showing the lost commemorative board comes from A L...
Other Subjects
First match of association football
The first official game played to Football Association rules took place in Battersea Park. It was played between teams selected by the President (Arthur Pember) and the Secretary (Ebenezer Cobb Mor...
Tour de France
Multiple stage bicycle race, which has been held annually (apart from the world wars) since its inception. Its first organiser was Henri Desgrange, and originally it ran around the perimeter of Fra...
Long Parliament
Convened by Charles I, this got its strange name because, through an act of Parliament (passed by, erm, itself) it could not be dissolved unless the members agreed and they didn't, not until after ...
1985 Brixton Riot
It was sparked off by the shooting of Dorothy Groce by the Metropolitan Police. They were looking for her son Michael in relation to a suspected firearms offence, and believed he was hiding in his ...
Women's suffrage
Throughout history women have generally not been allowed to vote, with, by the 19th century, a few exceptions based on the woman's marital status or her property ownership, and then only in some el...
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