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Henry Purcell

Organist and composer. Born St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster, c. 10 September 1959. Died at home in Marsham Street.

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Henry Purcell

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Guildhall School of Music - Purcell

Purcell 1658 - 1695

Henry Purcell statue

The form of the statue is similar to that of the 'Green Man' carvings in chur...

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Rupert D‘Oyly Carte

Son of Helen and Richard D‘Oyly Carte. Chairman of the company 1901 - 1948 - through both World Wars. Father of Bridget. Wodehouse supposedly based Psmith, one of his characters, on Rupert, or p...

Person, Commerce, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial

Tin Pan Alley

‘Tin Pan Alley’ originally, 1885, referred to the section of New York City where music publishers and songwriters were based. In 1920s London music shops congregated in Denmark Street and the term...

Place, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs

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Richard William Robertson

For 39 years the organist of All Saints Talbot Road, W11. Andrew Behan has researched Robertson: Richard William Robertson was born in Kensington in 1880, the eldest of the eleven children of Will...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial

Opera singer. Born Geraint LLewellyn Evans in Cilfynydd, Wales. He took singing lessons in Cardiff before serving in the RAF in WW2. Later he studied in Geneva and in London at the Guildhall School...

Person, Music / songs, Wales

1 memorial

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Composer With W. S. Gilbert wrote the Savoy Operas, including The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. Sullivan also wrote Onward Christian Soldiers and The Lost Chord, which was the first phonogr...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous

1 memorial

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A. J. Hill

Resident of the West Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1

1 memorial

Bankers Clearing House - 6

EC4, Lombard Street, Post Office Court

At the north end of Post Office Court, attached to the west wall adjoining St Mary Woolnoth, are six salvaged carved panels. We have numb...

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Maurice Adams

Architect. Born Maurice Bingham Adams. He was instrumental in the founding of Bedford Park in West London, where he designed many of the houses and parts of St Michael & All Angels Church. In 1...

Person, Architecture

5 memorials