Acting school director. She worked with Joan Littlewood in the Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, which inspired her to found the East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex.
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Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (1922 - 2013) founder of East 15 Acting School and Theatre Wo...
Anarchist writer. Born Wanstead. Served in the army in WW2, and worked as an architect 1952 - 61. Published on education, architecture and town planning. Guardian obit.
Opened as the Woolwich Polytechnic; it became the Thames Polytechnic in 1970 and was granted university status in 1992.
Built on the site of Millbank Prison.
Written by William Johnson Cory. First performed in 1863, the first verse goes:. . . . Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees,...
The 1869 map shows this area not yet developed. The 1893 map shows a number of buildings on the site, labelled "Technical Institute". A history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania has a reference to ...
William Henry Gunton. Architect. Photo shows another work of Gunton's in London, "The exterior of Jacob's biscuit factory on Dockhead, Bermondsey. The building still exists, renamed The Italian Bui...
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 20 November 1917, age 37, while serving in the Norfolk Regiment. "Coming under fire from across the canal, with great gallantry he inspired confidence in his men. ...
Rosemarie Mansi was born on 5 November 1955, a daughter of Vittorio Vincenzo Bonoventuro Mansi (1911-1963) and Mary Bridget Teresa Mansi née Upton (1919-2012). Electoral registers from 1959 to 196...
See Operation Mincemeat for Major Martin's role in WW2. The body was identified in 1996 as that of Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh homeless man, but the Wikipedia page puts forward a number of other possi...
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...
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