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Eel Pie Island

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Eel Pie Island is a island in the River Thames at Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. [1]

68 relations: Absolutely Fabulous, Acker Bilk, Ait, Anarchism, Ayize Jama-Everett, Ballroom dance, BBC News, Ben Aaronovitch, Black Sabbath, Clifford Harper, Cyril Davies, Daily Express, Danny Wallace (humorist), Doctor Who, Downliners Sect, Edgar Broughton Band, Eel Pie Publishing, Eel Pie Studios, Elizabeth II, Eric Clapton, Genesis (band), George Melly, Glover's Island, Hawkwind, Hippie, How to Start Your Own Country, Islands in the River Thames, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Ken Colyer, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Long John Baldry, Manchester Evening News, Mesolithic, Metropolitan Police Service, Middlesex County Council, Mystery Jets, Nigel Planer, Pete Townshend, Pie and mash, Pound sign, Pulley, Ransom Riggs, Red deer, Rhythm and blues, Richmond Lock and Footbridge, Riot Squad, River Thames, Rivers of London (novel), Rock and roll, ..., Rod Stewart, Samuel Lewis (publisher), Screaming Lord Sutch, Stray (band), Swan Island, London, The Boathouse, Twickenham, The Daily Telegraph, The Honeycombs, The Independent, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Yardbirds, Tideway, Trevor Baylis, Twickenham, Twickenham (UK Parliament constituency), Twickenham Rowing Club, William Hartnell. Expand index (18 more) »

Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.

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Acker Bilk

Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was an English clarinettist and vocalist known for his appearance – goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat – and breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.

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Ait

An ait (pronounced, like "eight") or eyot (pronounced,, or) is a small island.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Ayize Jama-Everett

Ayize Jama-Everett (born 1974) is an African-American science fiction and speculative fiction writer.

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Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Clifford Harper

Clifford Harper (born 13 July 1949 in Chiswick, West London) is a worker, illustrator, and militant anarchist.

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Cyril Davies

Cyril Davies (23 January 1932 – 7 January 1964) was an English blues musician, and one of the first blues harmonica players in England.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Danny Wallace (humorist)

Daniel Frederick "Danny" Wallace (born 16 November 1976) is a British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Downliners Sect

The Downliners Sect are an English R&B and blues-based rock band, formed the 1960s beat boom era.

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Edgar Broughton Band

The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, was an English psychedelic rock group.

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Eel Pie Publishing

Eel Pie Publishing is a publishing house founded by musician and author Pete Townshend in 1977, and named after Eel Pie Island.

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Eel Pie Studios

Eel Pie Recording Studios, formerly Oceanic, was a recording studio located in The Boathouse, Twickenham on the banks of the River Thames in Ranelagh Drive, by Twickenham Bridge, West London, and also simultaneously at No.45 Broadwick Street, Soho, London.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967.

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George Melly

Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer.

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Glover's Island

Originally called Petersham Ait, Glover's Island is in a section of tidal river formerly known as Horse Reach on the Thames, between Richmond Lock and Teddington Lock in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England.

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Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups.

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Hippie

A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.

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How to Start Your Own Country

How To Start Your Own Country was a six-part BBC Television documentary comedy series aired between August and September 2005.

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Islands in the River Thames

This article lists the islands in the River Thames, in England.

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Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist.

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John Mayall

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years.

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Ken Colyer

Kenneth Colyer (18 April 1928 – 8 March 1988) was an English jazz trumpeter and cornetist, devoted to New Orleans jazz.

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London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames.

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Long John Baldry

John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English-Canadian blues singer and a voice actor.

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Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Mesolithic

In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle"; λίθος, lithos "stone") is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Middlesex County Council

Middlesex County Council was the principal local government body in the administrative county of Middlesex from 1889 to 1965.

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Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets are an English indie rock band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London.

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Nigel Planer

Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is an English actor, comedian, novelist and playwright who is best known for his role as Neil in the cult BBC comedy The Young Ones and as Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap.

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Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who.

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Pie and mash

Pie and mash is a traditional working-class food, originating in London.

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Pound sign

The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound sterling—the currency of the United Kingdom and previously of Great Britain and the Kingdom of England.

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Pulley

A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft that is designed to support movement and change of direction of a taut cable or belt, or transfer of power between the shaft and cable or belt.

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Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

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Red deer

The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richmond Lock and Footbridge

Richmond Lock and Footbridge is a lock, rising and falling low-tide barrage integrating controlled sluices and pair of pedestrian bridges on the River Thames in south west London, England and is a Grade II* listed structure.

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Riot Squad

Riot Squad were a second-wave punk rock band from Mansfield, England, initially active between 1981 and 1984.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Rivers of London (novel)

Rivers of London (Midnight Riot in the US) is the first novel in the series of the same name by English author Ben Aaronovitch.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart, (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter.

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Samuel Lewis (publisher)

Samuel Lewis (c.1782 – 1865) was the editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Screaming Lord Sutch

David Edward Sutch (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), also known as 3rd Earl of Harrow, or simply Screaming Lord Sutch, was an English musician.

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Stray (band)

Stray is an English hard rock band formed in 1966.

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Swan Island, London

Swan Island is a small, privately owned island in the River Thames at Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England.

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The Boathouse, Twickenham

The Boathouse is a business and residential property located at Ranelagh Drive, Twickenham, England, which houses music and film studios.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Honeycombs

The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London, best known for their chart-topping 1964 hit, the million selling "Have I the Right?" The band was also notable for having Honey Lantree on drums, one of the few female drummers in bands at that time.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.

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Tideway

The Tideway is the part of the River Thames in England that is subject to tides.

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Trevor Baylis

Trevor Graham Baylis (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio.

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Twickenham

Twickenham is a suburban area and town in Greater London, lying on the River Thames 10.2 miles west-southwest of the centre of London.

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Twickenham (UK Parliament constituency)

Twickenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Sir Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democrats.

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Twickenham Rowing Club

Twickenham Rowing Club was founded on 26 July 1860 so is jointly with Thames Rowing Club the third oldest rowing club on the Thames.

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William Hartnell

William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_Pie_Island

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