Lambeth Walk
"Anytime you're Lambeth way, Any evening, any day, You'll find us all, doin' the Lambeth walk, oy!" The 1937 musical 'Me and My Girl' and the subsequent 1939 film, Lambeth Walk, featured characte...
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Ronnie Lane
Bass guitarist. He was part of the original line-up for the Small Faces group in which he was nicknamed 'Plonk'. After they split, he became part of a new group known simply as 'Faces'. Diagnosed w...
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La Scala, Milan
Opera house. Originally called the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala.
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Capt. Simmon Latutin GC
Born Euston, the son of poor Jewish immigrant tailors. He attended the North London Polytechnic School 1931-3 and later won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music to study violin. Within four ...
War dead, WW2
2 memorials
Sir Harry Lauder
Internationally successful singer and comedian, music hall artiste (e.g. "Roamin' in the Gloamin'"). Born Edinburgh. His first London engagement was in 1900 and, having reduced his strong accent, t...
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B. D. Laughton
Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Christopher Lee
Actor. Born Christopher Frank Carandini Lee in Belgravia. Ian Fleming was his step-cousin. After war service in various parts of Europe he took up acting, although at first he was told he was too ...
1 memorial
John Lennon
Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool. Â One of the four Beatles. Shot dead in the steet in New York City by Mark Chapman. One of the few people commemorated with more than one English Heritage-m...
6 memorials
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Les Miserables the musical
Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985. Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...
1 memorial
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