Images Dated 2012

Jack Leslie - Plymouth Argyle

Football - 1927 / 1928 season - Plymouth Argyle team group
John Jack Francis Leslie.
He made 384 league appearances for Plymouth between 1921 and 1934, scoring 132 goals.
Born to a Jamaican father in Canning Town, Leslie was the only professional black player in England during his time at Plymouth Argyle. He was reportedly set to become the first non-white player to represent England at international level before he was denied the opportunity when selectors were made aware that he was, as was then euphemistically called, "a man of colour". As a consequence it wasn't until 1978 that Viv Anderson became the first black player to represent England in a full international

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Millwall - 1960/61

Football - 1960 / 1961 Fourth Division - Accrington Stanley 3 Millwall 3
The Millwall team group before kick-off at Peel Park on 29/08/60.
Back (left to right): Dave Harper, Garry Townsend, Ray Brand, Reg Davies, Dave Jones, Denis Jackson.
Front: Leon Vaessen, Wally Hinshelwood, Peter Burridge, Harry Redmond, Alf Ackerman.
Leon Vaessen is the father of Arsenal player Paul

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The 1972 Great Britain Olympic luge team relax in a bathouse in Sapporo, Japan

1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics
The Great Britain men's luge team relax in a bathouse in Sapporo, Japan. Pictured are Jonnie Woodall, Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson (front left), Richard Liversedge, Rupert Deen, Stephen Marsh, and Michel de Carvalho (third from right).
Palmer-Tomkinson's father James and brother Charles were also Winter Olympians, while his neice Tara later became famous as a socialite.
de Carvalho (as Michel Ray) had enjoyed a brief Hollywood film career including the role of the Arab boy ?Faraj? in Lawrence of Arabia'. His wife Charlene is the daughter of the Dutch brewing magnate Freddy Heineken, and she inherited the family fortune in 2002

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