Dance band leader.
Thought to have been raised in Stamford Hill.
Toured Britain with the young Vera Lynn. Temporarily retired to Hertfordshire to escape the WW2 air raids. When his music went out of fashion he turned to management and in 1958 discovered Kathy Kirby. Collapsed during a recording by Kirby for Yorkshire Television and died in Leeds Infirmary.
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Bert Ambrose
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Bert Ambrose
When the May Fair Hotel opened in 1927 Ambrose took a job as band leader that...
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Dennie Vidal
Our picture source says: "Jazz Jamaica’s former sound engineer". That's all we can find.
1 memorial
Mark Knopfler
Lead guitarist in Dire Straits. Born Glasgow. Apart from the fact that they were both members of the Garrick Club, not necessarily at the same time, we can find no connection between Knopfler and...
1 memorial
Dame Gracie Fields
Entertainer. Born over a chip shop in Rochdale, Lancashire as Grace Stansfield. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios. Gracie and her husband Archie moved from Upper Street, N1 in 1929 to The Towers...
4 memorials
Sir Henry Wood
Conductor and composer. The first British-born career conductor. Born in London. He founded the promenade concerts in 1895 at the Queen's Hall. When this was destroyed in the Blitz the concerts ...
2 memorials
B. D. Laughton
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Hannah Brown statue
N6, Swains Lane
This charming Victorian gothic development of 12 Grade 2 listed homes, completed in 1865 was at the southern extremity of the Holly Lodge...
1 subject commemorated
Admiral Robert Fitzroy
Hydrographer and meteorologist. Born Ampton Hall, Suffolk. He attended the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth and eventually took command of The Beagle, with Charles Darwin as a passenger. In his late...
2 memorials
St Nicholas Acons parsonage
EC3, Nicholas Lane
Site of the Parsonage of St Nicholas Acons where scientific life assurance began in 1762. The Corporation of the City of London
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Canon Samuel Barnett
Social reformer. While curate of St Mary's in Bryanston Square, met Henrietta Barnett and married her in his own church. The site given as the picture source is a forum where the infamous Jack the...
2 memorials
Josiah Wedgwood
Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...
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4 memorials