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. ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Kenny Wheeler
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Details of this repair work are given at British History Online. Until the post-war reconstruction it seems that these were the only sign...
This open space was reduced in size in 2020-22 to allow the construction of a building on the Purchese Street/Brill Place corner. The re...
Jacqueline du Pre, 1945 - '87, cellist, lived here, 1970 - 1975. Heath and Old Hampstead Society
2015: The attribution of this work, ‘Two Doves’, to William Mitchell is being changed to credit Malcolm Thackwray instead. Mitchell has ...
They lived here 1922 - 1970 and this is where Laura died.
Opera singer. Born Geraint LLewellyn Evans in Cilfynydd, Wales. He took singing lessons in Cardiff before serving in the RAF in WW2. Later he studied in Geneva and in London at the Guildhall School...
Suffragette and pacifist. Born as Annot Erskine Wilkie in Scotland. Nicknamed Annie. Trained and worked as a teacher. She was sentenced to six months for trying to break in to the House of Commons....
Architect. Mayor of Lambeth 1905-6 and 1906-7. Died at home at 344 Kennington Road.
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