Erection date: 10/5/2013
Sir John Dankworth CBE 1927 - 2010. The celebrated jazz musician, bandleader, composer and international jazz ambassador lived here in his early years.
Waltham Forest Heritage
A video of the unveiling refers to a previous plaque at this site, which contained spelling mistakes and called him Johnny, which he didn't like.
IG8, Hollywood Way, 16
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir John Dankworth
Jazz musician and composer. Born John Philip William Dankworth at 38 Beech Ha...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir John Dankworth
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
At the unveiling musketeers from the Rainsborough Regiment of the Sealed Knot fired a volley to mark the occasion.
The plaque is in the pavement - the man in our photo will walk over it in about 3 strides.
This naked boy sitting on his pannier (basket) is thought to refer to the bakers in the area selling their wares on the street from a bre...
Above the entrance to the building (to the left of our picture) in stone: 1573, E.R.".
'Mail Rail' - Post Office Railway, 1927 - 2003, 6½ mile, 2 ft gauge, driverless underground railway, linking postal sorting offices, and ...
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