Erection date: 9/7/2011
London Borough of Islington
John Wright MBE, (1906-1991), master puppeteer, founded the Little Angel Theatre here in 1961.
Islington People's Plaques
Plaque unveiled by his widow Lydia.
N1, Dagmar Terrace, Little Angel Theatre
In our photo the Wright plaque can be seen on the wall, and the Trant plaque at the foot of the tree to the right.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Wright
Puppet theatre. Founded by John Wright. It is a 100 seat theatre in a former ...
Puppeteer. Born in South Africa. He started work as a farmer in Cape Town, be...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Wright
The Islington Book of Remembrance is an impressive undertaking: the database ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
John Wright
Spot the plaque – it can be seen to the right, above the boarding.
Erected between April 2019 and August 2020, by unknown.
The building was erected 1935 -63, designed by Sir Herbert Baker and Scott and their successor Helbing. These memorials are all inside wh...
The Hackney Citizen reported that the names on the plaque are all "late African-Caribbean musicians with 'strong ties' to Hackney".
At first we thought the plaque was deliberately mounted at a jaunty angle but then we saw that a screw has gone missing.
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