by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 30, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 30th April 1999 Admiral Duncan Pub Bombing Well known as a gay pub, the Admiral Duncan was the site chosen by Neo-Nazi David Copeland to detonate a nail bomb which killed three people and wounded 70. See also Brixton nail bomb. Cockney Cabbies...
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 27, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 28th April 1923 First FA Cup Final at Wembley The first FA Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium. 200,000 people arrived at a stadium which was only designed to hold 125,000 and when 60,000 irate fans rushed the turnstiles a human torrent swept...
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 27, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 27th April 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Born Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) in which she described marriage as “legal...
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 26, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 26th April 1976 Sid James Died Comedy actor. Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Worked as a diamond sorter and then a hairdresser....
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 25, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 25th April 1599 Oliver Cromwell Born Born Huntingdon, the great-grandson of Richard Cromwell who was Thomas Cromwell’s nephew. The picture source website also provides these words: “Following the traumatic upheavals of civil war and...
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