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Andy Fordham, 2004 World darts champion, was publican of the Queen's Arms public house in Woolwich, although he has since moved to the Cutty Sark pub in Thamesmead. Julius Francis, heavyweight boxer; General Charles George Gordon of Khartoum was born at 29 Woolwich Common and educated at the Royal Military Academy.
Jazz and blues guitarist Billy Jenkins ran Wood Wharf rehearsal studios, situated to the west of the Cutty Sark, during the 1980s; Glen Johnson, footballer who plays for England and Stoke City, was born in Greenwich, 23 August 1984
Cutty Sark (pub), a pub in Greenwich, London; Cutty Sark, a private yacht belong to the Duke of Westminster and used in submarine escort duties during World War II; Saro Cutty Sark, a British flying boat of the 1920s; Cutty Sark DLR station, a station on the Docklands Light Railway, near the ship "Cutty Sark", a 1962 instrumental single by John ...
It is in The Pepys Building near to the Cutty Sark within the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College (formerly Greenwich Hospital); the building began life as an engineering laboratory for the college. The centre opened in March 2010, and admission is free.
Since Cutty Sark's arrival to Greenwich, it is thought that more than 17 million visitors have stepped aboard. Before it reached Greenwich, it was first towed to East India Docks where its ...
The Cutty Sark is a Grade II listed public house at 6-7 Ballast Quay, Greenwich, London. [1] It was built in the early 19th century, [1] replacing an earlier pub, The Green Man. It was initially called The Union Tavern, but was renamed The Cutty Sark Tavern when the tea clipper came to Greenwich in 1951. [2]
Dundee gangster George Kerr survived being shot three times by a Satans Slaves member in a drug dispute at the Cutty Sark pub in 1993. [5] The biker was also hospitalised as he was attacked after firing the shots. [25] In 2011, the Satans Slaves were reportedly involved in a biker war with the Blue Angels on Tayside. [24]
Arsenal Football Club (then known as Royal Arsenal or Woolwich Arsenal) played in Plumstead between 1886 and 1913, at various grounds in the Plumstead area, but mainly at the Manor Ground, on the north side of Plumstead Common Road and the Invicta Ground, where the Royal Ordnance Factories F.C. also played.