Image:Kelyan Bokassa, 14, was stabbed to death on a bus in Woolwich Church Street. Pic: Met Police/PA An aspiring rapper, 14-year-old Kelyan was also "briefly" a student at St Columba's Catholic Boys School in Bexleyheath. The South East London Catholic Academy Trust said in a statem...
Kelyan was an aspiring rapper, who was described as having "briefly" been a student at St Columbia's Catholic Boys School in Bexleyheath. Following his death, his mother Mary Bokassa described his troubled childhood to journalists. She said he was taken into care, moved from ...
The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations.Joe Fleming earns his livelihood as a sailmaker and supports his mother and si...
He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, meaning that he has no known grave; given that this was months before the register was compiled, one must assume that his family did not know of his fate in the summer of 1918 – months after his death. A gas sentry of the 4th (Ross Highland...
More homes and schools followed the first – Barnardo had adopted an “ever open door” policy after the death of a boy who had been turned away for lack of room – andby his death in 1905, it was said that his institutions cared for more than 8,500 children in 96 locations across ...
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In addition, new Blue Plaques are only erected a minimum of 20 years after the subject’s death, the building on which one is placed must “survive in a form that the commemorated person would have recognised, and be visible from a public highway”, and buildings which may have many diff...
It was named after Edward Cruse one year after his death in 1939; a Labour councillor for Bow and Bromley from 1919 to 1939. Poplar Workhouse, undated photograph A patch of open ground follows and the first (modern) building of what is now New City College but once this swathe of land...
They were decent boys with great futures ahead of them; neither had any history of being involved in crime. Yet both still fell victim to the knife.Dhaliwal, Nirpal
This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London 's death in 1916. In his short 20-year career, he produced more than 50 books. The text and illustrations in this collection are taken from his early publications and the covers are replic...