Wrote Steptoe and Son, and others.
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Galton and Simpson
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Hand & Racquet
The Hand & Racquet has been around in different forms since the Tudor tim...
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Tony Hancock - SW7
Unveiled on Hancock's 90th birthday by scriptwriters Galton and Simpson.
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Kenny Everett
Comedy broadcaster. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole in Liverpool. Inspired by the Goons. Got a job on the pirate Radio London by sending in an audition tape. Worked for Radio Luxemburg, the...
3 memorials
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.
1 memorial
Michael Bentine
Comedian. Born as Michael James Bentin in Watford, Hertfordshire. He was a co-founder of the Goon Show, but left after the first series to pursue a solo career. His best remembered television progr...
3 memorials
Spike Milligan
Goon. Born as Terence Alan Milligan near Bombay, India, his father being an Irish soldier who met his wife, Florence Winifred Kettleband, in India. Both parents were amateur, would-be professional,...
7 memorials
Sir P. G. Wodehouse
Writer/humorist. born Guildford as Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, educated at Dulwich College. Produced about 100 books, creating Jeeves, Wooster and Lord Emsworth. He was criticized for broadcasting ...
2 memorials
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Hammersmith Bridge
The original bridge was designed by William Tierney Clark, and was the first suspension bridge over the River Thames. By the 1870s, it became evident that it was not strong enough to support the vo...
4 memorials
Western Postal District war memorial - Rathbone Place
W1, Rathbone Place, Post Office Sorting Office
The plaque does not point out that not all of the WW2 names were in the armed forces when killed: H. F. Phillips had survived his service...
War dead, War served, Civilian war dead | WW1, WW2, Other war
190 subjects commemorated
190 subjects commemorated
Savage Club
A gentlemen's club, now in Whitehall Place, with its own website. Had premises at 6 Adelphi Terrace, from 1890 - March 1936.
1 memorial
Peter Hall
Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE was a theatre and film director who was born on 22 November 1930 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. He founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and was its first artis...
1 memorial
Vernon Malcolmson
Chairman of the Westminster Housing Trust from 1933 until his death.
1 memorial
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