Music hall artiste. Born Bethnal Green, as Mary Ann Florence Holyome. Successful as a male impersonator but also as a woman singing "I'm one of the girls". Toured America and Australia. Grandmother of actor Kay Kendall. Died Clapham.
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Marie Kendall
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Marie Kendall
Marie Kendall (1873 - 1964) music hall artiste, lived here. The Music Hall Gu...
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Sir Yehudi Menuhin
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Fitzroy "Bunny" Simpson
A member of the Jamaican harmony trio Mighty Diamonds (see Donald "Tabby" Shaw for more information). Simpson died, aged 71, of a combination of Covid-19 and diabetes just 3 days after Shaw had bee...
1 memorial
Helen Carte
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1 memorial
Ralph Downes
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1 memorial
Atkinsons Carillon
The only carillon in London. Dictionary definition of 'Carillon': a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either from a set of keys and pedals or mechanically.
1 memorial
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Frank Matcham - Victoria Palace
SW1, Allington Street, Victoria Palace Theatre
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Simon Bolivar
"El libertador". Born Caracas. Latin American statesman and patriot who worked to liberated Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru & Venezuela from Spanish rule. In London briefly in 1810. Di...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
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East End Dwellings Company Ltd
Founded in the 1880s by Angela Burdett-Coutts.
2 memorials
Sigmund Freud
Founding father of psychoanalysis. Born Morovia. In 1860 the family settled in Vienna where he studied, began his career and married. In 1875 he visited his half-brothers in Manchester, and again ...
2 memorials
Worshipful Company of Butchers
From the Butchers' website: "Five of our seven Halls were burned down including destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The fourth Hall, in Pudding Lane, was subject to a compulsory purch...
2 memorials
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