Singer-songwriter. Born Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath, daughter of Ewan. Killed in a swimming / motorboat incident in Mexico. Whether the person actually responsible for her death was properly prosecuted or not was the subject of the "Justice for Kirsty" campaign.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Kirsty MacColl
Commemorated ati
Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty MacColl, 1959 - 2000, "One day I'll be waiting there, no empty bench i...
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Wally Fawkes
Cartoonist and clarinettist. Born in Vancouver, his family emigrated to Britain in 1931. During WW2 he started playing in jazz bands including George Webb's Dixielanders and Humphrey Lyttleton's ba...
H. R. S. Pulman
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
Europe’s first recording studio / Gramophone Company
In 1898 The Gramophone Company moved into the building with the plaque and started to record popular songs often performed by music hall stars in the West End. The studio, which used primitive tech...
Jimi Hendrix
Guitarist and songwriter. Born Washington, USA. View from the Mirror has done a wonderful job plotting Hendrix's London, with lots of pictures including ones we had not seen before taken on the da...
Harry Secombe
Actor, comedian and singer. Born Harry Donald Secombe in St Thomas, Swansea where he grew up. In WW2 he served in the Royal Artillery, and whilst in North Africa he first met Spike Milligan. After ...
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