Born near the Kennington Oval but his family returned to Yorkshire when he was very young and he saw himself as a Yorkshireman. In 1908 he joined Waddingtons, a printing firm which developed a specialism in playing cards and in the '30s moved into jigsaws for which there was a craze. Was responsible for acquiring the rights to Monopoly.
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Victor Hugo Watson
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Co-op bank - Monoploy
Victor and Marjorie came to London from Leeds specifically to select names fo...
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David Lammy
Politician. Member of Parliament  for Tottenham from 2000. In 2002, he became parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Health.
Founding of the state of Victoria in Australia
A small, heavily populated state on the south-east coast of Australia. Â It was officially separated from New South Wales, given a constitution and named Victoria in 1850. Â The enabling legislation ...
Epsom and Ewell Golden Jubilee
A local government district with borough status in Surrey, covering the towns of Epsom and Ewell. The borough was formed as an urban district in 1894, and was known as Epsom until 1934. It was made...
Pioneer Women Campaigners
The plaque capitalises this as if it was a formal group but we can find no reference to it on the interweb.
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