Actor. Born Shirley Broomfield in Bolton, Lancashire. She started her career as a glamour model. Laurence Olivier chose her to play the prime female role in the film 'The Entertainer' and she also appeared as Albert Finney's girlfriend in 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'. When her film career started to wane, she moved on to stage and television roles.
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Shirley Anne Field
Plaque unveiled by actress Shirley Anne Field (who spent part of her childhoo...
Created the captions on the Hitchcock murals. We think this means that he wrote them, rather than physically made them, and that he was chosen for his film knowledge. But the existence of 'John B...
Comedian and film actor. Born Sunderland. Best known for a series of films in which he played a character, Josser, in the 1930s. T. S. Eliot was a big fan. Died London. British Pathe have some...
Entertainer. Born over a chip shop in Rochdale, Lancashire as Grace Stansfield. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios. Gracie and her husband Archie moved from Upper Street, N1 in 1929 to The Towers...
Theatre manager and film cameraman. Born in Roydon, Essex. Details of his life are sketchy, but he is supposed to have managed a theatre in Northampton before taking over the newly built Brixton Th...
Film director who settled in London and made many of his films here. Born New York City. The first film made in England was Lolita in 1962. He lived close to the film studios at Elstree and rarel...
Founded to preserve the battle sites of Britain. The founding motivation was the fact that the battlefield of Naseby, (a perfectly preserved site of the battle of the English Civil War), was to be ...
Harrow Through Time by Don Walter dates this bucolic image to 1795.
We could find no source for the Bowie quote but many websites give it, though normally with correct spelling and punctuation and with ".....
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
We published this with the incorrect Lord Mayor (Marcus Samuel) and Mayoress. 2022: Alicia Collinson kindly emailed us to set it right. ...
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