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.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
The Kinks
The plaque is inside the school building. The photograph was taken at the unv...
The Clissold Arms, London Ray & Dave Davies Site of the first public perf...
Composer. On 29 July 1871 he stayed in a house in Finsbury Square. He was in London giving six organ recitals at Royal Albert Hall and five at the Crystal Palace. While in London he started work on...
Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett. Trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Born Barbados. Resident in the UK from 1954.
Cornetist and trumpeter. Born in Great Yarmouth. When he was in the merchant navy, he jumped ship in Mobile, Alabama and travelled to New Orleans where he joined the George Lewis band. He was event...
Reggae musician. Saxophone and flute player. Played with Cliff And His Rhythm Ryders. Died London. No photos seem to be available so here's a record label instead.
Drummer. Initially he was part of the Small Faces group, then joined The Who after the death of their original drummer Keith Moon.
Artist. Born Bruges, Belgium where his father was working as an architect/artist but his Anglo-Welsh family moved back to London in 1874. Largely self-taught he was skilled in various mediums and c...
Cookery writer. Born Isabella Mary Mayson in Milk Street in the City (according to the ODNB; Wikipedia has her born in Marylebone and her family moving to Milk Street shortly after). Another family...
Founded as a women-only college by Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner called the original college building (now listed Grade 1) "the most ebullient Victo...
There is an almost identical plaque on Celia Blairman House in Folgate Street.
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