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HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 8 ALBERT van HOORN Artist & Inventor Albert van Hoorn (1871-1929) lived and worked in Hampton Wick but was originally born in Ireland. He came to Hampton Wick via a circuitous route which encompassed Oldham, Golders G...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 7 JOHN SLEEPER CLARKE And the Abraham Lincoln connection Buried in Teddington Cemetery is an actor born in Baltimore, Maryland who has a connection to the 1865 assassination of the US President, Abraham Lincoln. John Clar...

Players left by coach at 1.45 this afternoon. Overnight stop near Newton Abbot.

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 6 SIR CHARLES HAWTREY And the Son that never was; Identity theft? Buried in Teddington Cemetery is a famous 19th century actor who indirectly was thought to be the father of a member of the ‘Carry On’ team’, but more of t...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 5 TS HAMPTON FERRY The ship! Not our local ferry In a book on the history of British Railways I came across a reference to a ship called the TS Hampton Ferry and, of course, investigated. Three Ferries were built named, H...

It didn't help any that several players were ill on the coach travelling to the game.

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 4 SIR FRANCIS MARK FARMER Renowned Dental Surgeon In Hampton Cemetery sits a very grand monument to Sir Francis Mark Farmer (1866 – 1922), in his time a famous Dental Surgeon and leading expert on facial reconstruction es...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 3 THE DAUBENEYS Keeping your Head, whilst all about you…….. Daubeney Place is a small mews behind the ground, in the High Street, close to Twickenham Preparatory School and is named for an early owner of property in Hampt...

We couldn't afford Bettemer!

Train Strike Day!

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 2 COMMITTED TO THE CAUSE They also served from the sidelines One thing is certain (apart from Death & Taxes!) is that you can’t run a football club without having some willing people in the background carrying out the...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 1 MY CUPS RUNNETH OVER Staines Hospital & Hounslow Charity Cups In the era before Non-League Football became ‘serious’, there were numerous small-scale cup competitions, often set up to raise funds for local or specif...