Kenny Wheeler, jazz trumpeter and composer, lived here 1972 - 2014. One of the most influential jazz musicians of the late 20th century.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E11, Wallwood Road, 141
This is the one 1930s house in a terrace of Victorian properties. It's smaller both in height and floorplan - not a development that would happen today.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Kenny Wheeler
Trumpet and flugelhorn player. Born Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler in Toronto. ...
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Kenny Wheeler
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
From RBKC: Built by Australian millionaire and art patron, Sir Edmund Davis. Designed by William Flockhart as six artists’ flats with two...
Note that the bomb is not actually mentioned on the memorial.
A walk through this cemetery in c.1870 is described on pages 52-57 of May Sinclair’s 1919 novel ‘Mary Olivier: A Life’. Mary is taken by...
