... Jan Boone, Maurice Bun, Erwin Charlier, Eric van Damme, Tijmen Daniëls, Dmitry Danilov, George Deltas, Bas Donkers, Martin Dufwenberg, Kees Jan van Garderen, Ronald van Gelder, Noud van Giersbergen, Wouter den Haan, Harry Huizinga, ...
Spencer Gore defeats W. C.Marshall to win the first Wimbledon singles title on July 19. Major Walter Clopton Wingfield introduces his sport of lawn tennis at a party. 1877 1873 1873 The Open Era of tennis begins as paid players are ...
The book captures the magical atmosphere of those two weeks in June - the quintessential Englishness of it all with the players in white, the pristine lawns, Pimms and strawberries and cream, ballboys, ballgirls and (of course) plenty of ...
28 May 2002: a day that changed the lives of Wimbledon Football Club fans everywhere. It was the day a three-man panel set up by the Football Association ratified a wealthy businessman's previously absurd-sounding plan to take Wimbledon ...
at Wimbledon 1993 1,2, 3 at Wimbledon 1994 1,2, 3 at Wimbledon 1995 1,2, 3, 4 at Wimbledon 1996 1,2, 3 at Wimbledon 1997 1,2, 3, 4, 5 Wimbledon 1998 missed by 1 at Wimbledon 1999 1,2 Wimbledon becomes home of 1,2, 3 in Wimbledon junior ...
Water could therefore be supplied to Wimbledon in 1851, although it could not be pumped higher than half way up the hill. The Southwark and Vauxhall Company followed with a substantial waterworks at Hampton in 1854, supplying northern ...
Meet Wimbledon Green, the self-proclaimed world's greatest comic-book collector who brokered the world's best comic-book deal in the history of collecting.
The medical man who was summoned to help Burdett and Paull in Coombe Wood was John Sanford from Herefordshire. He later bought Ashford House, High Street, Wimbledon (now flats). In a letter to her husband on 21 September 1809,
Wimbledon Wimbledon – to misquote fans of its famous FA Cupwinning football club – is a place of two halves. The name means 'Wynnman's hill', the final element 'dun' (don) being the Old English for hill. And the slopes of Wimbledon Hill ...
Wimbledon and its commons used to be less crowded. Medieval Wimbledon could boast nothing more than uncultivated commons and empty roads. The area was once part of the estates of Archbishop of Canterbury. Though William Cecil (16th ...