Erection date: 10/5/2013
Sir John Dankworth CBE 1927 - 2010. The celebrated jazz musician, bandleader, composer and international jazz ambassador lived here in his early years.
Waltham Forest Heritage
A video of the unveiling refers to a previous plaque at this site, which contained spelling mistakes and called him Johnny, which he didn't like.
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Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir John Dankworth
Jazz musician and composer. Born John Philip William Dankworth at 38 Beech Ha...
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Sir John Dankworth
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
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The Independent reported the unveiling. We thank our colleague Alan Patient for these photos.
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The Hall was in Silver Street, which exists no more. it ran just south of London Wall, between Wood Street and Noble Street.
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First conserved in 1959 by the Ministry of Works when it was in the basement of the then new General Post Office. The picture source is a report by the developers of the current building.
The plaque is on the grass beneath the group of trees in the photograph.
L.C.C. 1911 Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), musical composer, lived here.
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