Brighton boxer Thomas Sayers was born 200 years ago today (Monday 25 May) \u2013 and to mark the occasion, a senior councillor has given his commemorative plaque a spruce.<\/p>\n
Jacob Allen said: \u201cAs cabinet member for public realm, I went to personally clean up the plaque on North Road to pugilist Thomas Sayers ahead of his 200th birthday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to pay respects to Sayers and make sure his plaque was looking pristine ahead of his bicentennial birthday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an administration, we are proud of Brighton and Hove\u2019s heritage and that includes celebrating figures from our past who made an impact \u2013 literally in Tom the boxer\u2019s case!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people try to make fun of me for cleaning things myself throughout the city \u2013 but I say as an Englishman that DIY is in our DNA.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I am more than happy to spend some of my bank holiday weekend paying tribute to our forefathers that helped make our city unique.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more about Thomas Sayers, click here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton boxer Thomas Sayers was born 200 years ago today (Monday 25 May) \u2013 and to mark the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}