Actor, director, writer. Born Streatham.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Simon Callow
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Charles Dickens - Cranleigh Street
In Dickens' time it was called Johnson Street. His house was number 29 though...
Film industry
Simon Callow did the unveiling honours. There seems to be a battle going on ...
Mike Leigh & Alison Steadman
Unveiled by Simon Callow who has never worked on a Leigh movie though he and ...
Mozart - WC2
Unveiled by Simon Callow, who was the first actor to play the part of Mozart ...
Other Subjects
Moulin Cinema
Cinema. Originally opened by Montagu Pyke in 1910 as the Piccadilly Cinematograph Theatre. It went through several name changes, before being called (in French) after the nearby Windmill Theatre. I...
Humphrey Jennings
Documentary film maker. Born Suffolk. Co-founder of the Mass Observation organisation (something like current day personal blogs but with pencil and paper). In 1936 he helped organise the Surreal...
Cinema Theatre Association
Founded by journalist Eric George, who wanted to draw attention to the magnificent "cinema theatre" movie palaces of the twenties and thirties that were beginning to disappear from our towns and ci...
Terry-Thomas
Comic actor, born as Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens in Finchley, Middlesex. He performed with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) during World War II and went on to work on radio and ...
Tarquin and Zelfa Olivier
Tarquin is Laurence Olivier's film producer son by his first wife, Jill Esmond. Born 21 August 1936. Zelfa is Tarquin's wife. The picture shows Tarquin, Attenborough and Plowright at the unveil...
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St Johns Hackney war memorial
E5, Lower Clapton Road, St John, Hackney
The Listing text gives: "The almshouses in Wattisford Road for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, referred to in the inscription ..." and: "...
3 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
Sir John Lavery
Painter. Born Belfast. One of the "Glasgow Boys" he went on to become a successful portrait painter.
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Army regiment. Its name was changed to the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) in 1921. In 1970, it was amalgamated with the Lancashire Regiment to form the Queen's Lancashire Regiment which in turn ...
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