Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Sir George Shearing OBE, 1919 - 2011, jazz pianist and composer.
The Battersea Society
SW11, Bolingbroke Grove, 26, Northcote Road School
The school was formerly the Linden Lodge School for the Blind, which Shearing attended as a boy. The plaque is on a building far from the road, so our picture is therefore not as sharp as we would like.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir George Shearing
Pianist and composer. Born at 67 Arthur Street, Battersea, Blind from birth, ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir George Shearing
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