George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Beatles
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Abbey Road album - access cover
The creators of the access cover have a web page for it, where we learnt that...
Brian Epstein - W1
The period that Epstein and his company, NEMS, occupied these offices was fro...
Brian Epstein - WC2
Unveiled by Cilla Black. The Cerynitis or Golden Hind originates in Greek ...
Other Subjects
Sir Michael Costa
Conductor and composer. Born as Michaele Andrea Agniello Costa in Naples, Italy. Prolific writer of operas, symphonies and cantatas, now all virtually forgotten. He moved to Britain in 1830 and bec...
Mick Rock
Michael David Rock was a photographer of rock acts in the 1970s. Born Hammersmith possibly (records differ) with the surname Rock which would give him a serious case of nominative determinism. Oth...
Alma Cogan
Singer. Born Alma Angela Cohen in Whitechapel. She specialized in 'novelty' songs such as 'Twenty Tiny Fingers' and 'Bell Bottom Blues'. Nicknamed the 'girl with the chuckle (or giggle or laugh) in...
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer and musician of the Baroque period. Born into a musical family.
Sir John Dankworth
Jazz musician and composer. Born John Philip William Dankworth at 38 Beech Hall Road, Walthamstow (just a few streets away from the plaque). Known as Johnny, he was also an accomplished clarinettis...
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Christ Church Spitalfields - fire
British History On-line puts the blame squarely on the "negligence of the steeple-keeper". There you can see the exact cost of the repairs to each element destroyed by the fire and the name of the ...
Evangelista Torricelli
Physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.
Southwark Health
SE17, Walworth Road
This plaque is not particularly interesting visually so we are showing the roof-top sculpture instead, which is.
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Arnold Morley
Barrister, Liberal MP, Postmaster General 1892-5. From Ornamental Passions: Morley has gone down in history for a staggeringly wrong assessment of the market potential of a new technology. In in 1...
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