M. J. Curley
Councillor and Chairman of the Wembley History Society in 1953.
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David Gammans
Politician. Born Leonard David Gammans. He entered parliament and served as Assistant Postmaster-General in the 1951 - 55 government. In 1952 there was 'public outrage' that the Post Office cats ha...
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Boo Armstrong
Born as Rachel Armstrong she grew up in Ealing. As an adult lived in Camden - the photo shows her on her canal boat Moonshine on which she lived in the Cumberland Basin from 1999. The Picture sourc...
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Stuart Freeborn
Make-up artist. He worked on some of the most notable films of the 20th century, including Alec Guinness as Fagin in David Lean's 'Oliver Twist'. Worked for Kubrick on the three incarnations of Pet...
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Haroon Shamsher
Musician. Born in Bradford. His father was a Bangladeshi immigrant who ran a traditional tape shop in London’s East End. Haroon and his younger brother Farook, started the Joi Bangla Sound System i...
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Bishop Edward Myers
Born York. Parish Priest and Rector of St Mary's Cadogan Street, 1932 - 56. Also Titular Bishop of the Lamas Titular See, 10 June 1932 - 20 January 1951. See William F. Brown, Bishop of Pellla for ...
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W. Stuart Surridge
Born Walter Stuart Surridge at Herne Hill. First-class cricketer who played for Surrey, who won the title every year he was captain, 1952-6. Died Derbyshire on a visit to his family's bat-making fa...
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Lawrence Stevens
Builder and local politician. Born Stratford to a father with the same name and his wife Mary. From London Wikia:Â A member of the Rotherhithe Vestry, at the first election to the London County Coun...
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