Also known as Clancy Collins and Charles Constantine Collins. Sound system owner and producer.
He ran a sounds system and record stall in Petticoat Lane market in London selling ska and blue beat 45s. He founded his Collins Down Beat label in 1967. Born Jamaica. Died London.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Collins
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late Afric...
Record album. The sixth to be released by Bob Marley and the Wailers on Island Records.
Musician and actor. Born David Robert Jones 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton. The family left here when David was 6 and moved to Plaistow Grove, Bromley. David changed his surname to avoid confusion wi...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
Actor, comedian and singer. Born in Hackney. He used his short stature and malleable features to create a popular comic persona. On stage he was often partnered by George Grossmith junior. See ther...
TAG is the legal leaseholder of the site of the Marc Bolan Shrine. They arranged for the steps to be laid in 2000 and have continued to maintain and upgrade the site ever since. They also maintai...
Britain's leading exponent of Kodaly's principles of musicianship training, founder of the British Kodaly Academy, Born in Budapest, Vajda studied with Kodály. From the Picture source: "... came t...
In 1855 the first pillar boxes were installed in 5 London streets: Fleet Street, Strand, Piccadilly, Pall Mall and Rutland Gate. In 2015,...
Royal Air Force (Egypt) Memorial gives a report of the laying of this stone.
The presence of Sherlock Holmes at this unveiling is rather misleading since he was not present at the event commemorated. In Conan Doyle...
According to ever-informative The Library Time Machine, Stoker "... the house of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, not to mention the L...
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