
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Noel Gay (1898-1954), lyricist and popular-song writer and composer of the Lambeth Walk was a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral in his teenage years. Recorded plaque organisation: Wakefield Civic Society.
Noel Gay was a renowned British lyricist and composer, best known for writing "The Lambeth Walk," which became an international hit and symbol of wartime morale.
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