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The Beatles

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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...

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Brian Epstein - W1

The period that Epstein and his company, NEMS, occupied these offices was fro...

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Brian Epstein - WC2

Unveiled by Cilla Black. The Cerynitis or Golden Hind originates in Greek ...

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Crawdaddy Club

The website address on the plaque is defunct.

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HMV store

Chosen as the featured memorial in December 2004, for lots of reasons. Firstl...

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Orbital

Orbital

Electronic dance music group.  Two brothers from Sevenoaks Kent: Phil and Paul Hartnoll.  Split up in 2004 but reformed in 2009.  Performed at the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Paralympic Ga...

Group, Music / songs

1 memorial
George Grossmith, Snr

George Grossmith, Snr

Born London. Entertainer and author. Created a number of the great Gilbert and Sullivan roles, including Bunthorne, possibly modelled on Oscar Wilde. With his brother Weedon wrote the comic novel '...

Person, Literature, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
La Gioconda / Giaconda

La Gioconda / Giaconda

Back in the 1960s this was the place where would-be future pop icons hung out.  We've found references to: Marc Bolan, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Donovan, Small Faces, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix,...

Group, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Music / songs

1 memorial
Lady John Manners

Lady John Manners

There is sheet music dated 1873 for a song "True for ever" with words and music by Lady John Manners and Virginia Gabriel. Could this be the same LJM who opened our garden? We hope so.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Andy Irish

Andy Irish

We cannot definitively identify this artiste. Possibly the recording engineer, with real name George Chkiantz and alias Irish O'Duffy. From Discogs: "George Chkiantz was a recording engineer and ...

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial

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Southwark Council

Southwark Council

The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Southwark, Camberwell and Bermondsey. Southwark council annually invites proposals for new plaques fro...

Group, Politics & Administration

92 memorials
Franta Belsky

Franta Belsky

Born Czechoslovakia as Frantisek Belsky. Fled 3 times, twice to escape the Nazis and then again from the Communists. Ornamental Passions we learn that all Belsky's sculptures contain an empty Guinn...

Person, Sculpture, Czechoslovakia

3 memorials
Heal's furniture store

Heal's furniture store

John Harris Heal established a feather dressing business at 33 Rathbone Place, moving to Tottenham Court Road in 1818. This became a family business selling beds and moved to larger premises in the...

Group, Craft / Design, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
World War 1

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...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

403 memorials
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous

126 memorials