Previously known as the Performing Rights Society. They have also erected plaques to Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Blur.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
PRS for Music
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Dire Straits first gig
PRS for Music Dire Straits first gigged here, 1977. Presented to Farrer House...
Marc Bolan shrine - PRS
In Respectful memory of Marc Bolan, 30th September 1947 - 16th September 1977...
Other Subjects
Jimmy Winston
Actor and musician. He was in the original line-up of Small Faces but left after a clash of personalities with the other group members. He went on to an acting career, appearing on stage in the mus...
1 memorial
Sidney Bechet
Saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. Born in New Orleans. He was an outstanding clarinetist in his teens and toured Europe with Will Marion Cook's Syncopated Orchestra. In London he was imprisone...
1 memorial
Lilian Harvey
Film actor and singer. Born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape in Hornsey. Her father, a German businessman moved the family to Magdeburg. She studied at the dance and voice school of the Berlin Opera, taki...
1 memorial
John Cage
Composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. Leading member of the avant-garde and described himself as an anarchist. Born Los Angeles. Wrote 4′33″.
1 memorial
Devon Barrant Russell
Known professionally as Devon Russell, he was a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and record producer who recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s, both as a solo artist and as a member of The ...
1 memorial
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Julian Huxley
NW3, Pond Street, 31
Possibly the loveliest plaque in London, though it has strong competition from Sir Edward Elgar and Sophie Fedorovitch.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Mary Ann Allcroft
When we published the memorial we had no information on this lady, on the plaque as “Mrs J. D. Allcroft”, but Deborah Hart Stock contacted us via Facebook with the gen: I suspect that she was the ...
1 memorial
Platform 9 3/4
N1, Euston Road, King's Cross Station
The ride on the Hogwarts Express starts from King's Cross railway station platform 9 3/4, which is invisible to Muggle eyes and is reache...
2 subjects commemorated
Finchley Toll Gate
Our picture is taken from an old map showing London toll gates (black circles), but strangely, nothing appears in Finchley.
1 memorial