The next season they missed out on a second consecutive promotion, finishing 3rd behind Tottenham Hotspur and Stoke City.

In 1964, Banks finally won his first major trophy though when Leicester beat Stoke City 4 – 3 in the League Cup final over two legs, though they lost the trophy a year later after a 3 – 2 defeat by Chelsea on aggregate in the final.

Banks joined Stoke City and maintained his England place, while Shilton lost in Leicester's third FA Cup final of the 1960s ( the 1969 game against Manchester City ) and began to make his name.

Shilton became England's number one and was also signed by Stoke City shortly afterwards from Leicester City ( the same club Stoke had bought Banks from ) to take over from Banks in goal at the Victoria Ground.

But the former Leicester and Stoke City keeper wanted to save his children the burden of deciding what to do with the medal after his death.

He joined Stoke City in 1972 where he spent three years before finishing his Football League career with West Bromwich Albion.

In 1972, West Ham reached the semi final of the League Cup when they played Stoke City over two legs.

Hurst wound down his career with Stoke City and also West Bromwich Albion.

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* John Brown ( footballer born 1888 ), footballer for Manchester City and Stoke

That was his last trophy with the club, although they narrowly missed out on more in the following years, losing in the 1972 League Cup final to Stoke City and in the semi-finals of the same competition to Norwich City a year later.

He previously supported the football clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Stoke City, but now supports Championship side Bristol City.

), English footballer who played for Stoke City

A year later Watford reached the FA Cup semi-final for the first time, defeating First Division teams Stoke City and Liverpool along the way.

* John Anderson ( footballer born 1937 ), Scottish born footballer, who played for Stoke City and Australia

They are the official sponsors of Stoke City F. C.

By the mid-nineteenth century, Stoke Newington had " the largest concentration of Quakers in London ", including many who had moved up the A10 from Gracechurch Street meeting house in the City.

* Chris Singleton, the Irish singer-songwriter, currently lives in Stoke Newington ; his ' Twisted City ' album cover features a girl walking in Abney Park Cemetery.

At club level, Banks came up with his second most famous save when spectacularly palming a vicious penalty from his England team-mate Hurst over the crossbar as Stoke defeated West Ham United in the semi final of the 1972 League Cup.

Having lost two FA Cup finals, Banks ' attempts to be luckier with Stoke in the competition fell agonisingly short as Arsenal beat them in the semi finals of both the 1971 and 1972 competitions.

He began the next season with Stoke in his usual unflappable manner, but then his top-flight career would be suddenly and violently brought to an end.

On 22 October 1972, while driving home from a session with the Stoke physiotherapist, Banks lost control of his car which ended up in a ditch.

The first organized international competitions for athletes with a physical disability ( not deaf ) began in 1952, when the first international Stoke Mandeville Games were organized for World War II veterans.

They clashed with the King's army on 16 June at the Battle of Stoke Field and were defeated.

In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttman, a neurologist working with World War II veterans with spinal injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in the UK, began using sport as part of the rehabilitation programmes of his patients.

Stoke was listed as being in the King's park, with a rendering of £ 15.

In May 2010, she was re-elected in her constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington, with a doubled majority on an increased turn-out.

Also in 1850 he designed, without polychromy, St Matthias in Stoke Newington, with a bold gable-roofed tower.

There were several reasons for positioning a new station at Stoke Gifford: trains to London were quicker than on the longer route from Temple Meads, via Bath and Chippenham before reaching Swindon ; a larger car park than at Temple Meads could be provided ; the population on the northern fringes of the city was growing, especially with the building of a new town at Bradley Stoke ; and it was within easy access of the M4 and M5 motorways.

The name then later mutated to Isledon, which remained in use well into the 17th century when the modern form arose .< ref name = Growth >< cite >' Islington: Growth ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes ( 1985 ), pp. 9-19 accessed: 13 March 2007 </ ref > In medieval times, Islington was just one of many small manors in the area, along with Bernersbury, Neweton Berewe or Hey-bury, and Canonesbury ( Barnsbury, Highbury and Canonbury-names first recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries ).

Additionally National Rail's Lea Valley Lines also pass through Hackney, with stations at London Fields, Hackney Downs, Rectory Road, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill, and Clapton.

In the surrounding area there may be over 50 synagogues and many observant Jews in the neighbouring areas of Stoke Newington, Upper Clapton and Tottenham identify with Stamford Hill.

For one small district, Stoke Newington is endowed with a generous amount of open space.

As a late Victorian and Edwardian suburb, Stoke Newington prospered, and continued in relative affluence and civic pride with its own municipal government until changes brought about by the Second World War.

These days, Stoke Newington is a very multicultural area, with large Asian, Irish, Turkish, Jewish and Afro-Caribbean communities.

There are many Grade II listed properties on Stoke Newington Church Street, the historical heart of the district, and two other notable residential streets to the west of the district – Albion Road and Clissold Road – are replete with listed properties.

Banks duly reached his third League Cup final and won it for the second time, when Stoke beat Chelsea 2 – 1 at Wembley.

Banks launched Mullan's book in Dublin, Derry and at the Britannia Stadium in Stoke in the Summer of 2006 and has described Mullan as ' my greatest fan '.

His powerful shot into the top corner was saved by the Stoke goalkeeper and Hurst's international team-mate Gordon Banks, who succeeded in deflecting the ball over the bar.

George Banks died of cancer and pneumonia in Dalston, Hackney, close to London, and is buried nearby at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington with his wife-the author Isabella Banks.

* Chris Banks, physiotherapist at Stoke City.

In May 1966, a 16 year old Shilton made his debut for Leicester against Everton and his potential was quickly spotted to the extent that the Leicester City management sided with their teenage prodigy and soon sold World Cup winner Banks, to Stoke City.

After John Turner left Stoke for Lane End in 1762, Spode is said to have carried on the factory of William Banks, Turner's partner, at Stoke for him for some time.

In 1776, he bought the old pottery works at Stoke which had formerly been the property of William Banks ( in partnership with Turner ), on the same site as the later Spode factory which continued operating into modern times.

Of the twelve teams Los Angeles Wolves, represented by Wolverhampton Wanderers and featuring Derek Dougan, Cleveland Stokers, represented by Stoke City and featuring Gordon Banks, and Washington Whips, represented by Aberdeen, emerged as the strongest sides.