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Al Purchase

Categories: Music / songs

Busker. Our picture shows him at London Zoo, 1953.

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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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G. D. Gardner

G. D. Gardner

Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces, Music / songs

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Charles Stanford

Sir Charles Stanford

Composer, music teacher, and conductor. Born Dublin as Charles Villiers Stanford. Appointed Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music in 1883, a position he held for the rest of his li...

Person, Music / songs, Ireland

1 memorial
Britten - Pears Foundation

Britten - Pears Foundation

From the website: "We promote the music of Benjamin Britten and his work with singer Peter Pears, and are based at the home they shared, The Red House in Aldeburgh."  Britten and Pears lived here f...

Group, Community / Clubs, Music / songs

1 memorial
Pimlico Tavern & Pimlico Pleasure Gardens, Hoxton

Pimlico Tavern & Pimlico Pleasure Gardens, Hoxton

It seems likely that this tavern and pleasure gardens took the name of a publican with the foreign name 'Pimlico'.  There were many places of entertainment nearby and the whole area became known as...

Place, Commerce, Food & Drink, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
Pete Quaife

Pete Quaife

Musician. Born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Kinnies in Tavistock, Devon. His mother became pregnant after an affair with an American serviceman. She married after the war and the whole family took her ...

Person, Music / songs, Canada, Denmark

1 memorial

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Thomas Tilling
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
M. Beinstock
War dead, WW1
1 memorial