Erection date: 25/9/2014
Jackie Free, British jazz trombonist. Born in Leytonstone, lived here between 1932 - 1954
"A fine trombone man" (Louis Armstrong 1956)
Waltham Forest Heritage
E11, Pearcroft Road, 75
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesof london.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Jackie Free
Trombonist. Born Pearcroft Road, Leytonstone. He learnt to play in the local ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Jackie Free
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Trumpeter. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nicknamed 'Satchmo' (short for sat...
City of Westminster Mary Seacole, 1805 - 1881, Jamaican nurse, heroine of the Crimean War, lived in a house on this site. The Portman Estate
English Heritage Sir Henry Cole, 1808 - 1882, campaigner and educator, first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, lived here.
Refer to Sloane Court East V1 bomb for info about the event. The number of dead is not accurate on either plaque. At the time the death t...
Gustav Holst, 1874 - 1934, composer, wrote The Planets and taught here. English Heritage
Headlam's church, St Matthew's Bethnal Green, is an 8 minute walk away, due west.
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