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THE FOUNDING OF MODERN FOOTBALL (SOCCER)_-_THE FREEMASONS' TAVERN
The modern version of the sport of football, or soccer, was founded at the first meeting in the Freemasons' Tavern of the Football Association (FA) on 26th October 1863. At this, and subsequent meetings, the rules of football were unified from the variety in operation at a range of public schools, universities and regions, to create the association football that is now played around the world, from national leagues such as the Premier League and FA; continental championships such as UEFA and the Champions League , and FIFA and the World Cup. The Freemasons' Tavern has now been replaced by the Grand Connaught Rooms, where a Blue Plaque commemorates this event. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Founding_of_Modern_Football_-_The_Freemasons'_Tavern
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES - MUCH WENLOCK
Much Wenlock inspired the birth of the Modern Olympic Games. Dr William Penny Brookes set up the Wenlock Olympian Society in the Shropshire town in 1850, the society ran annual sporting competitions the Wenlock Olympian Games - open to all social classes. Brookes admired Greece's Athenian democratic ideals and its Olympic sporting games and ideals. In 1890 Brookes invited the French Baron, Pierre De Coubertin, to the Wenlock Olympian Games. De Coubertin went on to found the International Olympic Committee, and credited Dr William Penny Brookes with the rebirth of the Olympic Games. The London 2012 Olympic Games featured two mascots, one named Wenlock in recognition of the town's role in the creation of the Modern Olympic Games. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Birthplace_of_the_Modern_Olympic_Games_-_Much_Wenlock AMELIA EARHART CROSSES THE ATLANTIC, BALLYARNETT, DERRY
In 1932 attempting to make a solo trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Paris to emulate the achievement of Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart did indeed cross the Atlantic and landed in a field in Derry/Londonderry. As her plane developed problems Amelia was forced to land as soon as she could, landing in a field in Ballyarnett Village. T he American Aviator had placed Derry/Londonderry in the history of aviation as the landing site of the first female non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Amelia_Earhart_crosses_the_Atlantic Robin Hood's Stone, in Allerton, Liverpool is a single standing stone, that once stood in a nearby field where Tudor Liverpudlians practised their archery.
Henry VIII had made it law that all men under sixty practise archery, and so fields were set aside with mounds to support targets, and where the archers stood to fire their arrows would also be placed a stone to allow the sharpening of arrows. The Robin Hood Stone is one of these stones, which has deep groves cut into its surface where the arrows were sharpened, though these may have begun with natural abrasions to the stone. It is likely that the stone had had an earlier human use, possibly as part of tumulus burial chamber, and has been moved from the location of the Calder Stones several times. The grooves on the stone do not go below the surface, where hollow cup marks were found on the stone. The Robin Hood link is uncertain, other than the link with archery. This is the Archers' stone of Archerfield Road. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Robin-Hood's_Stone_-_Liverpool Izaak Walton the 16th Century author of the 'Compleat Angler', on the sport of fishing, lived in this thatched cottage.
Izaak was born in Stafford, and after running a business was able to buy property in his native Staffordshire. The location on the Meece,a tributary of the River Sow, attracted him to the area, as the fishing was so good. The 'Compleat Angler' was published in 1653, and for the last 40 years of his life Izaak visited those who enjoyed fishing, contiuing to add to his work with further publications. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Home_of_the_'Compleat_Angler'_-_Izaak_Walton's_Cottage Directions From here - To herek here to edit. |
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