Kenny Wheeler, jazz trumpeter and composer, lived here 1972 - 2014. One of the most influential jazz musicians of the late 20th century.
Waltham Forest Heritage
E11, Wallwood Road, 141
This is the one 1930s house in a terrace of Victorian properties. It's smaller both in height and floorplan - not a development that would happen today.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Kenny Wheeler
Trumpet and flugelhorn player. Born Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler in Toronto. ...
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Kenny Wheeler
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
Doctor Barnardo, 1845 - 1905, began his work for children in a building on this site in 1866. London County Council
The plaque on the brick wall in the picture reads: The BBC Star Terrace, "Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love" Sylvie Dee. De...
Site of "White Hart Inn", immortalized by Shakespeare in "Henry VI" and Dickens in "Pickwick Papers". Historic Southwark
Brought to our attention by Ed Fordham's blog, which suggests that Friese-Greene's studios were on this site. Inside the foyer of the Tr...
Most if not all of Victoria Street has been rebuilt over recent years and Westminster Council has taken the opportunity to name a space a...
Punch's Puppet Show was first performed in England and witnessed by Samuel Pepys 1662, in Covent Garden. And still popular in 2015.
Clive Bell as Bacchus, god of wine, parties, the theatre and general fun/mayhem. That long stick he's holding is a thyrsus - symbol of of...
September 2013: Our colleague Jamie Davis tells us that the plaque was stolen, presumably for its scrap value.
Fig Tree Court , 1515 - 1666, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, rebuilt in 1679 and again destroyed by enemy action 1940.
A member of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Surveyor and land agent. Born Coulsdon, Surrey. Died Hove.
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