Bud Flanagan, was a British music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian, and later a television and film actor. He was best known as being one half of the comedy and music act Flanagan and Allen with his partner Chesney Allen. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959.
Flanagan in a BBC publicity photograph from 1943
Blue plaque on 12, Hanbury Street where Flanagan was born in 1896
Memorial to Bud Flanagan, Golders Green Crematorium
Hanbury Street is a street running from Spitalfields to Whitechapel, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. It runs east from Commercial Street to the junction of Old Montague Street and Vallance Road at the east end. The eastern section is restricted to pedal cycles and pedestrians only.
South side of Hanbury Street, showing nos. 28 and 30
Hanbury Street, seen here in 2007
Bud Flanagan's English Heritage blue plaque on 12 Hanbury Street