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Other Subjects
Virginia McKenna
Actor and wild-life campaigner. Born Marylebone. Briefly married to actor Denholm Elliott, then to actor Bill Travers 1957 until his death in 1994. Played Violette Szabo, in the 1958 film 'Carve...
1 memorial
Sir Alexander Korda
Film producer. Born Sandor Kellner in Hungary. In 1933 had a big success with "The Private Life of Henry VIII" starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. There is an interesting story about Ko...
1 memorial
Sir Ben Kingsley
Actor. Born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snaiton, Yorkshire to an English mother and an Indian Kenyan father. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and also performed with the Royal National Theatre....
1 memorial
Lord Richard Attenborough, CBE
Actor, director, producer. Born Cambridge. Older brother of TV wildlife presenter Sir David. Died, aged 90 years, on 24 August 2014.
1 memorial
Count Dracula
Famous vampire created by Stoker as the eponymous hero (?) of his 1897 novel.
2 memorials
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Hydraulic power
E1, St Katharine's Dock, Central Basin, Thistle Tower Hotel
2014: We've corrected the British Engineerium Trust web address on the panel to be the correct one. The red button actually causes nothin...
1 subject commemorated,
3 creators
WW2 Arctic Convoys memorial
EN1, Silver Street
Our image shows a close-up of the logo on the memorial. We think that the bird (a swallow?) used to be flying in front of an enamelled bl...
5 subjects commemorated,
6 creators
Sir Sam Fay
Railway administrator. Born in Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, In 1872 he joined the London and South Western Railway as a clerk, and rose to become the last General Manager of the Great Central Railway...
1 memorial
Bedford's Chiswick wall
W4, Church Street, St Nicholas church
Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society confirms our link to the 4th Earl.
2 subjects commemorated
William Hogarth
Satirical artist and illustrator. Trained as an engraver, he depicted the unseemly behaviour of contemporaries in works like 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) and 'A Rake's Progress' (1732). Much of his ...
12 memorials