Erection date: 20/5/2013
John Compton, 1876 - 1957, organ builder, lived here, 1930 - 1957.
Ealing Civic Society
Ealing Council
Hanger Hill (East) R.A.
W5, Audley Road, 37
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Compton
Organ builder. Born in Newton Burgoland, Leicestershire. He set up business i...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Compton
Governing body of the London Borough of Ealing, Formed in 1965 by the merging...
The web page given on the plaque plots 900 British transport heritage sites on a map and provides information about each one.
Lisa O'Brien has pointed out that the plaque-makers got 'assoluta' wrong.
Wikipedia gives the architects as "Davis and Emanuel Pevsner". We believe the "Pevsner" to be an error, that has been widely copied.
We wonder if erecting this plaque was part of the deal for De La Rue getting Tonga's currency printing business.
The house of Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor, lived and died here, 1929-1959.
