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Olympic Games - 2012

Categories: Sport / Games

Olympic Games - 2012

See also 2012 Paralympics. The first event was held on 25 July in Cardiff but the opening ceremony in London was on the 27th. Closing ceremony 12 August.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Olympic Games - 2012

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2012 Commemorations - Blackheath

The names on the outer circumference sound as though they are areas of Blackh...

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2012 Olympics Bell

The quotation, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', was spoken by Kenneth Branag...

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Charlotte Dujardin gold post box

{On plaque attached to side of box:} This post box has been painted gold by R...

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Chaucer and Aldgate

This structure was removed between July 2014 and April 2015.

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Chinese Polo Players

{On a nearby ornamental base:} 2012 London Polo. By Huang Jian, China China i...

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Other Subjects

Captain Egerton Lowndes Wright, MC

Captain Egerton Lowndes Wright, MC

Egerton Lowndes Wright was born on 15 November 1885 in Lytham, Lancashire, the second of the four children of Henry Lowndes Wright (1854-1940) and Alice Maud Wright née Eckersley (1861-1914). His W...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, Sport / Games, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sports Heritage

Sports Heritage

It became part of what is now the Heritage Foundation.

Group, Sport / Games

3 memorials
Thomas Johns Tucker

Thomas Johns Tucker

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

Person, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Christopher Chataway

Sir Christopher Chataway

Athlete, politician and broadcaster. Born in Chelsea. He was one of the pacemakers when Roger Bannister ran the mile in under four minutes, and was the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1...

Person, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games, TV & Radio

1 memorial
Kenneth Wolstenholme

Kenneth Wolstenholme

BBC football commentator: "some people are on the pitch...they think it's all over....it is now!".  Born Lancashire. Bomber pilot in WW2, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar for 100 succ...

Person, Sport / Games, TV & Radio

1 memorial