Rock stars Feltham domestic and actor’s ‘runt retreat’ in Knightsbridge among properties to get plaques in scheme’s 150th yearThe memory of Sir Freddie Mercury,one of the most flamboyant and glamorous figures in the history of rock music, will be celebrated this year with a blue plaque on his domestic in the west London suburb of Feltham.
He will join an eclectic group being honoured in the 150th year of the much loved scheme, or which writes a history of London’s more remarkable residents on its walls. Memorials will also go up to the Hollywood star Ava Gardner,as famed for her lovers and marriages as for her films; the footballer Bobby Moore who led England to World Cup victory half a century ago; and the Irish Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett, whose life and work are far more associated with his adopted domestic in Paris than either Dublin or London.
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Source: theguardian.com