Comedy actor. Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Worked as a diamond sorter and then a hairdresser. Became a performer and served with an entertainment unit in WW2. Went on to fame in Carry On films, and various TV shows including a very successful, but short, partnership with Tony Hancock. On an opening night at the Empire Theatre, Sunderland, he collapsed on stage and was pronounced dead at hospital.
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Sid James
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Hand & Racquet
The Hand & Racquet has been around in different forms since the Tudor tim...
Sid James - W5
From BCS: "We had to do Sid twice because the first plaque was stolen; the se...
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Clapham Odeon
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1 memorial
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Born Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Actor. George Bernard Shaw wrote his play Saint Joan with her in mind. Created Dame of the British Empire in 1931. She was married to the actor Sir Lewis Casson. Di...
3 memorials
Lumière Cinématographe
The Lumière Cinématographe was a machine for projecting moving pictures, invented in France by Antoine Lumière and his sons, Louis and Auguste.
1 memorial
Lorna Luft
Daughter of Judy Garland by her third husband, Sidney Luft. She has worked in show business and published a memoir.
1 memorial
Jessica Tandy
Actor. Born Jessie Alice Tandy in Upper Clapton. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and more than 60 roles in film and TV. In 1940, on the break-up of her marriage to actor Jack Hawkins, sh...
Person, Cinema, Theatre, TV & Radio, USA
1 memorial
Previously viewed
1 memorial
Norwood Grove bird bath - rim
SW16, Norwood Grove, garden
The initial 'In' has been lost but we think it must have been there.
1 subject commemorated
Lee Rigby
Soldier. Born as Lee James McClure (he later took his stepfather's surname) in Crumpsall, Manchester. He joined the army in 2006, and was selected to be a member of the Corps of Drums, serving in C...
3 memorials
Kops Brewery
The first brewer of non-alcoholic beer in the United Kingdom. This photograph was taken in 1900. From the 1900 "Fulham old and new": "Between Town Mead Road and the river, a little eastwards of Wa...
1 memorial
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