Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Ferrier

Contralto singer.  Born Lancashire.  Her brief marriage failed due to physical incompatibility.  She learnt the piano and in a 1937 music festival she also competed in the singing contest for a bet...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Dame Gracie Fields

Dame Gracie Fields

Entertainer. Born over a chip shop in Rochdale, Lancashire as Grace Stansfield. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios.  Gracie and her husband Archie moved from Upper Street, N1 in 1929 to The Towers...

Person, Cinema, Humour, Music / songs, Theatre, Italy

4 memorials
Michael Norman Finn

Michael Norman Finn

Known professionally as Mickey Finn he was a percussionist who joined Marc Bolan in late 1969 on bongos/percussion, replacing Steve Took, & was with T-Rex until 1975.  It is said he was chosen ...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Gerald Finzi

Gerald Finzi

Composer.  born Hamilton Terrace.  Died Oxford.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Europe’s first recording studio / Gramophone Company

Europe’s first recording studio / Gramophone Company

In 1898 The Gramophone Company moved into the building with the plaque and started to record popular songs often performed by music hall stars in the West End. The studio, which used primitive tech...

Building, Music / songs

1 memorial
Flamingo Club

Flamingo Club

Former nightclub. Founded by father and son, Sam and Jeffrey Kruger, and originally located in Covenrtry Street. It moved to Wardour Street in April 1957 and gained a reputation for attracting top ...

Place, Music / songs

2 memorials
Bud Flanagan

Bud Flanagan

Born Reuben Weinthrop above his family fried fish shop in Hanbury Street, where the plaque now is. The first half of the Flanagan & Allen double act, with Chesney Allen. These two were also bot...

Person, Humour, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
Michael Flanders

Michael Flanders

Broadcaster, writer and performer. Born Michael Henry Flanders in Hampstead. He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, but contracted poliomyelitis and spent the rest of his life as a wheelcha...

Person, Literature, Music / songs, Theatre, TV & Radio, Wales

1 memorial
Claudia Fontaine

Claudia Fontaine

Claudia Fontaine was an backing vocalist from Peckham, London. Guardian obituary. The plaque has Fontaine spelt as Fontayne.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Emile Ford

Emile Ford

Musician and singer. Born Michael Emile Telford Miller in Castries, Saint Lucia. His family moved to London in the mid 1950s where he taught himself to play a number of musical instruments. He made...

Person, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
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