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Penguin Swimming Club
The West London Penguin Swimming and Water Polo Club, also known as the West London Penguins, is a British water polo and masters swimming club with history dating back to 1916. It was formed in 1976 as the Hammersmith Penguin Swimming Club by the merger of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club (founded 1916) and Penguin Swimming Club (1921). It states its date of foundation as 1921. Founding members of the clubs included four-time Olympian and gold medallist John Derbyshire (swimmer), Rob Derbyshire, who was later inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and his wife, Alice. For over fifty years, the clubs were organised separately for men and women; between them, they had more than 40 athletes who competed at the international level, including the Summer Olympic Games. The two clubs had several divers, including four-time Olympian Belle White, the first British diver to win an Olympic medal, and the first to win a European championship. Notable water polo players h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. It is bordered by Shepherd's Bush to the north, Kensington to the east, Chiswick to the west, and Fulham to the south, with which it forms part of the north bank of the River Thames. The area is one of west London's main commercial and employment centres, and has for some decades been a major centre of London's Polish community. It is a major transport hub for west London, with two London Underground stations and a bus station at Hammersmith Broadway. Toponymy Hammersmith may mean "(Place with) a hammer smithy or forge", although, in 1839, Thomas Faulkner proposed that the name derived from two 'Saxon' words: the initial ''Ham'' from ham and the remainder from hythe, alluding to Hammersmith's riverside location. In 1922, Gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latymer Upper School
(Slowly Therefore Surely) , established = , closed = , sister_school = Godolphin and Latymer School , type = Public schoolIndependent day school , head_label = Headmaster , head = David Goodhew , founder = Edward Latymer , address = King Street , city = Hammersmith , county = London , country = United Kingdom , postcode = W6 9LR , local_authority = Hammersmith and Fulham , urn = 100370 , ofsted = , staff = 180 full time, 37 music staff , enrolment = 1,284 , gender = Co-educational since 2004 (Formerly all-boys) , lower_age = 7 , upper_age = 18 , houses = , colours = Black, blue and white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Hudson
Millie Hudson (11 July 1902 – 17 September 1966) was a British diver, open water swimmer, diving coach, and sports journalist. She competed in the women's 3 metre springboard event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1927, she attempted to swim across the English Channel, but had to abandon her attempt after 13 hours in the water. In 1928, she attempted to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, but failed after 8.5 hours due to rough waters. After retiring from long-distance swimming, she continued to coach, and trained British Olympic springboard diver Esme Harris. Hudson was the swimming correspondent for the ''Evening Standard'' in London, and became the first woman to be admitted to the Sports Writers' Association in 1949. Early life and training She was born Amelia Hudson in Sunderland, England. When she was an infant, her family moved to South Africa. After the death of her father, a flour miller, Millie and her mother returned to England in 1920. Millie Hudson then joined t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle White
Isabelle Mary White (1 September 1894 – 24 June 1972) was the first British diver to win a medal at the Olympic Games, and the first to win a European championship. She competed in four Olympics, including the 1912 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal in the women's plain high diving event, as well as the 1920 Summer Olympics, 1924 Summer Olympics, and 1928 Summer Olympics. She also won a gold medal at the European Aquatics Championships in 1927. Belle White has been inducted into the Swim England Hall of Fame. The Belle White Trophy was named in her honour in 1935. Now known as the Belle White National Memorial Trophy, the cup is awarded each year to "the female team with the highest aggregate score at the Swim England Diving National Age Group Championships." Early life and training White was born in London. She start diving eight years before women's aquatics events became part of the Olympic Games, and trained at Highgate Ponds, for many years the only loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as '' The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mrs Henry Foreman
Sir Henry Foreman OBE (7 June 1852 – 11 April 1924) was a British Conservative politician. He was the mayor of Hammersmith and he married twice. His second wife and mayoress, Lucy Beatrice (née Randall), was the first President of Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club. Biography ''Lady Foreman, Wife of Sir Henry Foreman (Mayor)'' (unknown artist) Foreman was the son of Edwin George Foreman and Amelia Cox of Campden Hill, Kensington, London. He married first in 1893 and he became deeply involved in the municipal politics of Hammersmith. From 1913 to 1920 he was mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith, and was an alderman on the borough council from 1918. Foreman married firstly in 1873 Marion, (died 1893), daughter of William Howe, of Kensington. He married his second wife, Lucy Beatrice Randall, daughter of A. J. Randall, in 1901. She became his mayoress and was the founding President of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club in 1916. During the First World War Foreman wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
