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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Simon Callow
Actor, director, writer. Born Streatham.
4 memorials
Benny Hill
Comedian and actor. Born Alfred Hawthorne Hill in Southampton. In his teens he worked as a milkman, an experience which he later put to good use in his hit song 'Ernie - The Fastest Milkman in the ...
3 memorials
Ava Gardner
Actor. Born near Smithfield, North Carolina, USA. Married: Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra (divorced 1957). This last was a famously stormy and passionate romance. Aged 33 moved to Madrid,...
2 memorials
Richard Burton
Actor. Born Richard Walter Jenkins at Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Wales. He was adopted by his English teacher Philip Burton, and took his surname. His first theatrical success was in Christopher Fry's 'The L...
1 memorial
Tallulah Bankhead
Actor. Born and died America. Unsuccessful on Broadway so in 1923 came to London and was very successful on the West End stage. She returned to America and worked in both movies and on the stage. H...
1 memorial
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Islington war memorial - Islington Green
N1, Islington Green
This replaced the WW1 shrine that was erected in 1918, which was always intended to be a temporary memorial, but wasn't replaced until 20...
3 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
Wandsworth Council
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
21 memorials
Chislehurst Caves
'Caves' is a misnomer, as they are entirely man-made chalk and flint mines. The earliest mention of them is around 1250, and it is believed that they were last worked in the 1830s. In World War 1, ...
1 memorial
Peace Crane
NW6, Maygrove Road, Maygrove Peace Park
A photo on a nearby information board shows the statue surrounded by children and with a plaque on the front. We believe that the plaque ...
Civilian war dead | WW2
3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Vera Atkins
Commander of the Order of British Empire, Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honour. Born in Romania as Vera May Rosenberg into a distinguished Jewish family. "Atkins" was an Anglicised version of her mot...
1 memorial
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