Group    From 1964  To 1996

The Kinks

Rock group formed in Muswell Hill. Their numerous hits include: 'You Really Got Me', 'Waterloo Sunset' and 'Sunny Afternoon'. Founding members were the brothers Ray & Dave Davies and Pete Quaife.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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The Kinks

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Pete Quaife

The plaque is inside the school building. The photograph was taken at the unv...

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Ray and Dave Davies

The Clissold Arms, London Ray & Dave Davies Site of the first public perf...

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Sir Thomas Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham

Conductor and impresario. Born in Westfield Street, St Helens, grandson of the inventor of the eponymous digestive pills. He began his career as a conductor with the New Symphony Orchestra in 1906,...

Person, Music / songs, USA

2 memorials
Robin Gibb

Robin Gibb

One of the three Bee Gees. A proud promoter of British heritage he campaigned for memorials to be erected, was President of Heritage Foundation, often turned up to unveil plaques, and had a very bi...

Person, Music / songs

5 memorials
Bud Flanagan

Bud Flanagan

Born Reuben Weinthrop above his family fried fish shop in Hanbury Street, where the plaque now is. The first half of the Flanagan & Allen double act, with Chesney Allen. These two were also bot...

Person, Humour, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
Abbey Road

Abbey Road

The Beatles' Abbey Road album was released on 26 September 1969.

Media, Music / songs

1 memorial
BBC Music Day

BBC Music Day

A UK-wide annual celebration of music that aims to unite communities and generations through their love of music. In 2017 in conjunction with the British Plaque Trust, 47 plaques celebrating a wide...

Event, Music / songs

4 memorials

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S. Dobby
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Samuel Baylis

Samuel Baylis

Lived on Whitecross Street and was a founder of the Radical Club.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sutton Housing Trust

Sutton Housing Trust

EC1, City Road

The 'done' on the plaque is, we're pretty certain, a guerrilla sticker, as unwanted as all the graffiti.

1 subject commemorated
Norton Folgate almshouses

Norton Folgate almshouses

E1, Puma Court

The wall plaque is between the pair of first floor windows on the far end wall. Designed in 1860 by architect T. E. Knightley and built b...

11 subjects commemorated
Maida Vale Studios

Maida Vale Studios

W9, Delaware Road, 120 - 129

Maida Vale Studios, home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Radiophonic Workshop, 1934. BBC Heritage Trail

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator