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George F. J. MacLeod

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George F. J. MacLeod

George Francis James MacLeod. Manager of the Hackney Empire. Born in Chorlton in 1870, and married in Leeds in 1893, a commercial traveller in Potternewton, Leeds in 1901.

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George F. J. MacLeod

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Hackney Almshouses for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors

The tower in the symbol looks to us a lot like Hackney's St Augustine's tower...

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Mrs Bateman

Mrs Bateman

We initially identified the Mrs Bateman on the mural as the wife of Sidney Frances Bateman, theatre manager, initially at the Lyceum Theatre with her husband but on his death she carried on alone f...

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Mrs Dallas-Glyn

Mrs Dallas-Glyn

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1 memorial
Thomas Middleton

Thomas Middleton

Playwright.  Born London, probably in in a house on the corner of Ironmonger Lane and Cateaton Street (now Gresham Street). Baptized on 18 April 1580 in St Lawrence Jewry. He collaborated with a nu...

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1 memorial
Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House

Croydon Grand Theatre and Opera House

The theatre was opened by Herbert Beerbohm Tree and it originally produced plays and melodrama. By the 1920s it had become a venue for touring companies. Sarah Bernhardt and Sir Henry Irving were g...

Building, Theatre

1 memorial
Fred Russell

Fred Russell

Father of modern ventriloquism. Popularised the use of a single dummy. Father of Val Parnell.  Born in Poplar.  Died Wembley.

Person, Theatre

1 memorial