Cartoonist. WW1 artist. Born Muree, India. He was serving on the western front at the time of the Christmas Truce of 1914 and drew and wrote about it. An article in the Malvern Gazette 21/9/11, prompted by the erection of a plaque to Bairnsfather in Colwall, gives some details of his life and work.
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Bruce Bairnsfather
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Bruce Bairnsfather
Greater London Council Bruce Bairnsfather, 1888 - 1959, cartoonist, lived here.
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John Robert Cozens
Watercolour painter. Probably born in London. Travelled on the Continent. Painted principally landscapes and nature, especially trees. From 1794 suffered mental illness and died in the care of...
1 memorial
Doreen (Dorrit) Collins
Sculptor, artist and co-founder with Eddy Renton of the charity Kith and Kids.
1 memorial
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Andrew - cyclist
It's not really clear that the date given is Andrew's date of death, it might be the date the ghost bike was erected.
1 memorial
Hoe Street - medallion of a woman
E17, Hoe Street, 105
This shop front has, like a lot of shop fronts of this period, atop the flanking pillars, decorative capitals and corbels. On this shop ...
WB Yeats - Woburn Walk
WC1, Woburn Walk, 5
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist, lived in this house, then known as 18 Woburn Buildings, from 1895 to 1919.
1 subject commemorated
John Landy
Athlete. Born John Michael Landy in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Forty-six days after Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile, he broke the record again. He is probably best remembere...
1 memorial
Anderton's Hotel
In the fifteenth century this was the Horn tavern. In the early seventeenth century the hotel was popular with the legal community. A new building was erected in 1880 and probably that was the one ...
1 memorial