Marlborough Gallery

LCC-LFB Great Marlborough Street fire station, W1

Built by the London County Council, Great Marlborough Street fire station was located at 53 Great Marlborough Street. The widespread adoption of motorised fire engines by the LFB led to a reduction in the number of fire stations they required. A report produced in 1920 recommended the closure of 15, and this was one of them. The former fire station was sold off but destroyed by fire in the early 1970s.

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George Dyson, composer, at Marlborough College, Wiltshire

George Dyson (1883-1964), English musician and composer, at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, where he was working as music master. He became Director of the Royal College of Music in 1937, and was knighted in 1941. Date: circa 1911

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Gordon Richards and his wife at his bungalow in Marlborough

Photograph of the champion jockey, Sir Gordon Richards (5 May 1904 10 November 1986), and his wife, previously Miss Margaret Winckle. He was an English jockey and the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times. He is often considered the world's greatest jockey ever and he remains the only flat jockey to have been knighted. The couple married in the spring of 1927 but Richards wanted to keep it a secret until he had ridden his 100th winner that season. The 100th winner came at York, when he won the Convivial Plate on Lord Ellesmere's Tiffin. Date: 1928

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