Group    From 30/10/1988 

BBC Asian Network

Categories: TV & Radio

Countries: Indian Sub-continent

Radio station, aimed at people of South Asian descent. The music and news comes from the main urban areas where there are significant communities with these backgrounds. It has production centres in Birmingham (The Mailbox) and London (Broadcasting House).

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

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BBC Asian Network

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Haroon Shamsher

Haroon Shamsher 1965 - 1999 founder of influential music collective Joi lived...

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Sid James

Sid James

Comedy actor.  Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England.  Worked as a diamond sorter and th...

Person, Cinema, Humour, TV & Radio, South Africa

4 memorials
Dame Barbara Windsor

Dame Barbara Windsor

Actor. Born Barabara Ann Deeks in Shoreditch. She made her west end debut in 1952, before joining Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. In the cinema she was a regular in the 'Carry On' series, appea...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio

3 memorials
Comic Heritage

Comic Heritage

Merged with the Heritage Foundation.

Group, Cinema, History, Humour, Theatre, TV & Radio

29 memorials
Sir Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek Jacobi

Actor. Born Derek George Jacobi in Leytonstone. He was invited by Sir Laurence Olivier to be a founder member of the Royal National Theatre. Probably best known for playing the eponymous lead in th...

Person, Cinema, Theatre, TV & Radio

1 memorial
Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas

Comic actor, born as Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens in Finchley, Middlesex. He performed with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) during World War II and went on to work on radio and ...

Person, Cinema, Humour, TV & Radio

1 memorial

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LSHTM - Pettenkofer

LSHTM - Pettenkofer

WC1, Gower Street, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

This listed building was designed by Vernor Rees in 1926, one of the first steel-framed buildings ever erected. The balconies are decorat...

1 subject commemorated
Grosvenor Hotel - head 13

Grosvenor Hotel - head 13

SW1, Buckingham Palace Road, Grosvenor Hotel

This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...

Holly Village

Holly Village

N6, Swains Lane

This charming Victorian gothic development of 12 Grade 2 listed homes, completed in 1865 was at the southern extremity of the Holly Lodge...

1 subject commemorated
Sir Sydney H Waterlow - Highgate statue

Sir Sydney H Waterlow - Highgate statue

N6, Waterlow Park

Bronze. Unveiled by Princess of Argyll 20 July 1900. A year later another version was unveiled at Westminster City School. Are these the ...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Ernest Bevin bust

Ernest Bevin bust

SE1, Queen Elizabeth Street

Unveiled by Bermondsey Mayor Geoghegan, Chairman of the statue committee. The committee secretary was Griggs. The list of Creators includ...

1 subject commemorated, 15 creators