Tony Hancock, 1924 - 1968, comedian.
Comic Heritage
TW11, Broom Road, Teddington Studios
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the demolition of the building. "Police say they are investigating the thefts and the other commemorative plaques have been removed for safety."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Teddington Studios - Tony Hancock
Comedy actor. Otherwise known as Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock, of 23 Ra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Teddington Studios - Tony Hancock
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Teddington Studios - Tony Hancock
Bernie Winters, 1932 - 1991, comedian and Water Rat. Comic Heritage
David Nixon, 1919 - 1978, magician and past King Rat. Comic Heritage
In 2013 this plaque was replaced with the one for Eric and Ernie.
We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone. 2021: we retur...
The errors in the inscriptions (can be viewed at Victorian Web) are presumably deliberate, and mean something. But what? We can find no...
The Richmond plaque can be seen in our photo, between the lamppost and the two blackboards.
Victorian Gs and Cs are often indistinguishable, so the dog could be Rough or Rouch. We've gone with Rough because that's the noise dogs ...
