Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett. Trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Born Barbados. Resident in the UK from 1954.
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Harry Beckett
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Mellow Mix Studios in Hackney
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late Afric...
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English National Opera
Originated in the opera recitals presented by Lilian Baylis at the Old Vic theatre in 1898 and then at Sadler's Wells. As Sadler's Wells Opera it moved to the London Coliseum in 1968 and became the...
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Col. Cyril W. Bowdler Bowdler, CB
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Alma Cogan
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Sir Henry Wood
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2 memorials
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Founded as a joint project between the BBC and Sir Adrian Boult. It is now the principal orchestra which plays at the Proms.
1 memorial
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Surrey Docks
The south bank of the Thames used to be in Surrey, now in Southwark. The first dock created here in 1696 was initially named Howland Great Wet Dock and then Greenland Dock due to the whaling ships ...
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Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
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1 memorial
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