Person    | Male  Born 9/12/1927  Died 22/6/1998

Benny Green

Bernard 'Benny' Green, jazz musician, saxophonist, writer, author, broadcaster and raconteur. When his long-running BBC radio show was cancelled there were demonstrations outside Broadcasting House and the show was quickly re-instated.
Born Doncaster, died London, In the picture Benny is on the left with Michael Aspel on the right. Click on the picture source website for more information.

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Benny Green

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Benny Green

Musician, writer, broadcaster, Benny Green, 1927 - 1998, lived here, 1932 - 1...

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Tommy Handley

Tommy Handley

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1 memorial
Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation

We believe this group now encompasses Comic Heritage, Musical Heritage, Sports Heritage and Films and Television Heritage. Its aim is to pay tribute to Britain's entertainers and raise funds for go...

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64 memorials
Lord Delfont of Stepney

Lord Delfont of Stepney

Impresario and Companion Water Rat. Brother of Lord Lew Grade. The photo shows Delfont (on right) with Neil Diamond.

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1 memorial
Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe

Actor.  Born Derbyshire.  Played Captain Mainwaring in 'Dad's Army', 1968 - 1977. Collapsed in his Birmingham dressing room and died in a nearby hospital.  In 2007 a statue was erected in Thetford,...

Person, Humour, TV & Radio

2 memorials
Derek Nimmo

Derek Nimmo

Actor.  Born Liverpool.  Played vicars in a number of TV sitcoms and regulary appeared on the radio programme 'Just a Minute'.  Died in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, following a fall at home.

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1 memorial

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Britannia Theatre

Britannia Theatre

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General Letter Office

General Letter Office

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Hearts of Oak Benefit Society

Hearts of Oak Benefit Society

National Archives gives: "It was on 20th June 1842 that twelve members of a Provident Society met at the Bird-in-Hand Tavern, 17 Long Acre, with the intention of establishing their own Society. Thi...

Group, Social Welfare

2 memorials
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

402 memorials
H. Tyson Smith

H. Tyson Smith

From Liverpool. Worked on a number of WW1 memorials. George Herbert Tyson Smith was born on 12 January 1883 in Liverpool, Lancashire, the eldest of four children of George H. Smith (b.1849) and Ma...

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials