The first appearance of the Billy Smart Circus was at Southall Park.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Billy Smart's Circus
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Whales in The Thames
We were sceptical but a 2012 article in Time confirms: “Technically, the Quee...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Billy Smart's Circus
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Astley's Circus
The plaque is no longer there and actually looks like it was not intended to ...
Other Subjects
Dame Flora Robson
Actor. Born Flora McKenzie Robson in South Shields, County Durham. She made her stage debut in 1921, but found it difficult to obtain parts because she did not have the required good looks. She tem...
2 memorials
Edgar Wallace
Prolific writer: crime, novels, journalism, plays films. Born 7 Ashburnham Grove, Greenwich to an unmarried mother. Adopted by a Billingsgate fish porter and wife. Aged 18 joined the army medical...
Person, Cinema, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Theatre
2 memorials
Sir Anthony Hopkins, CBE
Actor. Born Port Talbot, Wales. Spotted by Olivier in 1965 and invited to join the National Theatre as Olivier's understudy.
1 memorial
Mrs Dallas-Glyn
Born Edinburgh, Scotland as Isabella Gearns. Actress who adopted her mother’s maiden name of Glyn. In spite of her parents’ objections she went to Paris with her first husband Edward Wills to study...
1 memorial
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
The fourth theatre on the site since restoration times, this is the oldest theatre in use in London. In 1745 the National Anthem had its first public performance here, in an earlier building.
2 memorials
Previously viewed
William Hogarth
Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...
12 memorials
Sir Roger Bannister
Athlete and doctor. Born Roger Gilbert Bannister in Harrow. While still a medical student, he won the mile event in the Oxford versus Cambridge match four times between 1947 and 1950, and was a fin...
2 memorials
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Harry Dixon
Sculptor, painter, illustrator. Born Watford, son of the photographer, Henry Dixon, who specialised in animal photographs taken at London Zoo, near where they lived. So it's interesting that Harry ...
1 memorial
Doctor Edith Whetnall
W5, Castlebar Hill, 8
Dr Edith Whetnall FRCS, 1910 - 1965, consultant audiologist who pioneered the treatment of deaf children and founded an experimental host...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
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