A TV production and distribution company, now part of ITV. Gave permission to use, for Olivier's statue, the image of Hamlet taken from Olivier's 1948 film to which Granada have the performing rights.
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Granada Ventures
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Laurence Olivier statue
Unveiled by Sir Richard Attenborough, Larry‘s son, Tarquin and widow, Joan Pl...
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Donald Pleasence
Actor. Born at 62 Potter Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. In an extensive career on stage, television and cinema (he appeared in over 200 films), he specialised in villainous parts such as Blofeld...
1 memorial
Crystal Palace
Originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was on the section south of Rotten Row and east of West Carriage Drive with the mid-point opposite Rutland Gate. The cast-...
Building, Architecture, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Music / songs, TV & Radio
4 memorials
Tommy Cooper
Comedian. Born Wales. Member of the Magic Circle. Died of a heart attack on stage at Her Majesty's Theatre, live on television. "I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and...
4 memorials
Alma Cogan
Singer. Born Alma Angela Cohen in Whitechapel. She specialized in 'novelty' songs such as 'Twenty Tiny Fingers' and 'Bell Bottom Blues'. Nicknamed the 'girl with the chuckle (or giggle or laugh) in...
1 memorial
Jenny Agutter
Actor. Born Jennifer Ann Agutter in Taunton, Somerset. Best remembered for playing the role of 'Bobbie' in the 1970 film version of the Railway Children. She had played the same role in a televisio...
1 memorial
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William Burdett-Coutts
Born of British stock in America as William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett. On his father's death the family moved to England in 1852. In 'The Story of Holly Lodge' by Margaret Downing, March 2009, we le...
1 memorial
PP - 4I - Benning
EC1, Edward Street
A compositor arranged type ready for printing, by manually putting individual metal letters into the required sequence.
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