Who Remembers Lillian Board?

Having had several days of light-hearted debate by email and on Twitter with Mark Machado of Hayes FM radio about whether Ealing Central Library should be named after Peter Crouch (!), I looked up famous Ealing residents on Wikipedia. Dusty Springfield, Sid James, Nevil Shute, Spencer Perceval, Fred Perry. But one name leapt off the [...]

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Remembering Cuthbert Ottaway

A guest post by Michael Southwick This is the final resting place of England’s first football captain, Cuthbert John Ottaway – a rather unassuming and neglected affair, sitting, as it does, unrecognised amidst a thousand other such plots in Paddington Old Cemetery off Willesden Lane. The photograph was taken in 2006, after a hurried twenty-minute [...]

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