The picture shows a rehearsal for the gig, in front of the Cockpit Arts building. We thank Glenda Bogdanovs for permission to use her historic photo.
Image source: Glenda Bogdanovs
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Dire Straits first gig
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Dire Straits first gig
PRS for Music Dire Straits first gigged here, 1977. Presented to Farrer House...
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Bill Owen, MBE
Actor, songwriter. Born London. Wrote that Cliff Richard hit 'Marianne'. Played Compo in 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Died Westminster.
1 memorial
Hoxton Hall
Built 1863 as Mortimer's Music hall. 1866 MacDonald took it over but in 1871 following complaints it lost its performance licence. Bought in 1879 by rich Quaker philanthropist William Isaac Palmer...
Building, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Religion, Theatre
1 memorial
Peter Tosh
Musician (and unicyclist). Born Winston Hubert McIntosh in Westmoreland, Jamaica. He founded the Wailers with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1963, and later followed a solo career. He was shot dead...
1 memorial
S. K. Golder
Member of the office staff of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Dame Myra Hess
Pianist. Born Julia Myra Hess in South Hampstead. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. During WW2, when concert halls were blacked out at night, she organise...
1 memorial
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Hugh Gyle-Thomson
EC3, St Dunstan's Hill, St Dunstan's in the East Garden
The plaque spells Thomson without a 'p' and, given the Hugh Gyle-Thompson that our researches found, we think the plaque is in error.
1 subject commemorated
Sir William Crookes
Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably in a residential apartment above his father's gentlemen's outfitters shop in the Nash-designed terraces. Worked on spec...
1 memorial
Henry Doubleday
CM16, High Street Epping, 271
The plaque is at the side of the building, in Buttercross Lane.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Charing Cross Station - US President
WC2, Strand, Charing Cross Station
The Guardian has a detailed description of the procession from Charing Cross to Buckingham Palace. The war had been won; the Americans h...
3 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Daniel Pemberton
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
1 memorial
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