Busker. Our picture shows him at London Zoo, 1953.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Al Purchase
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Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
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Léon Goossens
Oboist. Born Léon Jean Goossens in Liverpool. Son of Eugene Goossens. At the age of 15, he became a member of the Queen's Hall Orchestra under the baton of Sir Henry Wood. In 1932, he joined Sir T...
Bon Scott
Singer and songwriter. Born Ronald Belford Scott in Forfar, Scotland, his family moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was six. He joined the rock group AC/DC as lead singer in 1974. Following a re...
Gladys Mills
Pianist. Born Gladys Jordan at 154 Beckton Road, Silvertown, Newham, Essex. She was the supervisor of the typing pool at the Treasury and played piano at various venues in the evenings. She was 'sp...
Dennis Brown
Singer. Born in the Jubilee Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica. A child prodigy, he was known as the 'Michael Jackson' of Reggae'. His prolific output of eighty albums covered reggae, lovers' rock and dan...
Don Arden
Music manager and agent. Born as Harry Levy in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. He oversaw the careers of rock acts like Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Small Faces, and Black Sabbath, and achieved noto...
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John Newlands
Chemist. Born John Alexander Reina at 19 West Square, Southwark. The first person to devise a periodic table of chemical elements arranged in order of their relative atomic masses. He arranged all ...
Birkbeck WW2 memorial
WC1, Malet Street, Birkbeck College
From Birkbeck: "The sculpture, which is thought to have been created in the 1950s, is approximately 1.2 metres high not including its pli...
Giovanni Fontana
Born Italy. Based in London and naturalized British by 1871.
Wandsworth Prison
A category B men's prison on Heathfield Road SW18, known as the Surrey House of Correction when it first opened. Oscar Wilde was originally imprisoned here before being moved to Reading Gaol, and s...
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