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Neasden

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Neasden is an area in northwest London, United Kingdom. [1]

73 relations: BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, BBC Television, Bertie Elkin, Brent Central (UK Parliament constituency), Brent Park, Brent Reservoir, Chalkhill Estate, Charlie Kunz, Chiltern Main Line, Colossus computer, Dan Renton Skinner, David Cain (composer), Dollis Hill, Dread Broadcasting Corporation, Early music, Forge, Gary Warren (actor), Gerry Anderson, Ginger Baker, Good Friday, Graham Young, Great Central Railway, Harlesden, Historically informed performance, IKEA, Jock Rutherford, John Betjeman, Jubilee line, Judy Grinham, Konnie Huq, London, London Borough of Brent, London Underground, Maccabi World Union, Mari Wilson, Mario Fabrizi, Marylebone, Matt Cooke (journalist), Metro-Land (1973 film), Metropolitan line, Metropolitan Railway, MI5, Mores, Neasden Hospital, Neasden tube station, North Circular Road, Nottingham, Old English, ..., Paddock (war rooms), Post Office Research Station, Private Eye, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Retailers' cooperative, River Brent, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Satire, St Paul's Cathedral, Staples Corner, Stonebridge, London, Twiggy, United Kingdom, Vince Feeney, Wembley, Wembley Park, Willesden, William Roberts (parliamentarian), Willie Hamilton, Willie Rushton, World War I, Your News, 1992 Staples Corner bombing. Expand index (23 more) »

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (also commonly known as the Neasden Temple) is a Hindu temple in Neasden, London.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Bertie Elkin

Bertie Henry West Elkin (14 October 1886 – 1962) was a professional footballer who played for Fulham, Luton Town, Stockport County and Tottenham Hotspur.

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Brent Central (UK Parliament constituency)

Brent Central is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Brent Park

Brent Park is an area of Neasden in the London Borough of Brent, northwest London.

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Brent Reservoir

The Brent Reservoir (popularly called the Welsh Harp) is a reservoir between Hendon and Wembley Park in London.

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Chalkhill Estate

Chalkhill Estate is located in the Wembley Park area of northwest London.

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Charlie Kunz

Charles Leonard "Charlie" Kunz (August 18, 1896 – March 16, 1958) was an American-born British musician popular during the British dance band era.

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Chiltern Main Line

The Chiltern Main Line is an inter-urban, regional and commuter railway, part of the British railway system.

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Colossus computer

Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.

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Dan Renton Skinner

Daniel Renton Skinner (born 25 January 1973) is an English actor and comedy writer, working in stage, film and television.

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David Cain (composer)

David Cain (born 1941) was a composer and technician for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Dollis Hill

Dollis Hill is an area in northwest London, which consists of the streets surrounding the 35 hectares (86 acres) Gladstone Park.

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Dread Broadcasting Corporation

Dread Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) was a west London pirate radio station established in 1981, founded by DJ Lepke.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760).

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Forge

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.

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Gary Warren (actor)

Gary Warren (born 5 July 1954 in Cricklewood, London) is a British former child actor, best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children.

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Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist.

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Ginger Baker

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August 1939) is an English drummer and the founder of the rock band Cream.

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Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holiday celebrating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

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Graham Young

Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990) was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims.

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Great Central Railway

The Great Central Railway (GCR) in England came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension (see Great Central Main Line).

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Harlesden

Harlesden is an area in the London Borough of Brent, northwest London.

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Historically informed performance

Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical era in which a work was originally conceived.

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IKEA

IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group, that designs and sells, kitchen appliances and home accessories.

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Jock Rutherford

John "Jock" Rutherford (12 October 1884 – 21 April 1963) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Arsenal, Clapton Orient and Newcastle United.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

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Jubilee line

The Jubilee line is a London Underground line that runs between in east London and in the suburban north-west, via the Docklands, South Bank and West End.

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Judy Grinham

Judith Brenda Grinham, MBE (born 5 March 1939), also known by her married name Judith Rowley, is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships, and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games.

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Konnie Huq

Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq (Bengali: কনক হক; born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter and writer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Borough of Brent

The London Borough of Brent is a London borough in north west London, and forms part of Outer London.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Maccabi World Union

The Maccabi World Union (in some past occasions spelled Makkabi) is an international Jewish sports organisation spanning five continents and more than 50 countries, with some 400,000 members.

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Mari Wilson

Mari Macmillan Ramsay Wilson (born 29 September 1954, in Neasden, London) is an English pop and jazz singer.

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Mario Fabrizi

Mario Fabrizi (1924 – 5 April 1963) was an English comedian and actor of Italian descent, noted for his luxuriant moustache, active in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Marylebone

Marylebone (or, both appropriate for the Parish Church of St. Marylebone,,, or) is an affluent inner-city area of central London, England, located within the City of Westminster and part of the West End.

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Matt Cooke (journalist)

Matt Cooke (born 1982 in Kingston-upon-Thames) is a British journalist who worked for BBC News reporting for BBC London News, BBC Midlands Today presenting 60 Seconds on BBC Three.

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Metro-Land (1973 film)

Metro-Land is a BBC documentary film written and narrated by the then Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Sir John Betjeman.

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Metropolitan line

The Metropolitan line (colloquially known as the Met) is a London Underground line that runs between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in the western London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Metropolitan Railway

The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.

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MI5

The Security Service, also MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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Mores

Mores (sometimes; from Latin mōrēs,, plural form of singular mōs, meaning "manner", "custom", "usage", "habit") was introduced from English into American English by William Graham Sumner (1840–1910), an early U.S. sociologist, to refer to social norms that are widely observed and are considered to have greater moral significance than others.

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Neasden Hospital

Neasden Hospital was built in 1894 by Willesden District Council as an isolation hospital in Neasden.

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Neasden tube station

Neasden is a London Underground station in Neasden.

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North Circular Road

The North Circular Road (officially the A406 and sometimes known as simply the North Circular or "North Circ". Two sections at its eastern end are designated A1020 and A117) is a ring road around Central London in England.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Paddock (war rooms)

Paddock is the codeword for an alternative Cabinet War Room bunker for Winston Churchill's World War II government located in Brook Road, Dollis Hill, northwest London under a corner of the Post Office Research Station site.

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Post Office Research Station

The Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, north west London, was first established in 1925 and opened by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1933.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or Provisional IRA) was an Irish republican revolutionary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate the reunification of Ireland and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Retailers' cooperative

A retailers' cooperative is a type of cooperative which employs economies of scale on behalf of its retailer members.

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River Brent

The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames.

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Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity operating in England and Wales that promotes animal welfare.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London.

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Staples Corner

Staples Corner is a major road junction in London, United Kingdom.

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Stonebridge, London

Stonebridge is an area of northwest London, England in the London Borough of Brent, and forms the western part of Harlesden.

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Twiggy

Lesley Lawson (née Hornby; born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vince Feeney

Vincent Feeney (born 12 May 1973, Sligo), is a retired Irish professional boxer, nicknamed "the Sligo Kid", hailing from the Maugheraboy area of Sligo Town.

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Wembley

Wembley is an area of northwest London, England, and part of the London Borough of Brent.

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Wembley Park

Wembley Park is a district of the London Borough of Brent, England.

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Willesden

Willesden is an area in north west London which forms part of the London Borough of Brent.

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William Roberts (parliamentarian)

Sir William Roberts (1605–1662), of Neasden House at Willesden in Middlesex, was an English Member of Parliament.

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Willie Hamilton

William Winter Hamilton (26 June 1917 – 26 January 2000) was a British politician who served as a Labour Member of Parliament for constituencies in Fife, Scotland between 1950 and 1987.

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Willie Rushton

William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Your News

Your News was a weekly BBC News television programme made from user-generated content sent into the BBC by viewers and the public.

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1992 Staples Corner bombing

The 1992 Staples Corner bombing occurred on 11 April 1992 when the Provisional IRA detonated a large van bomb near the Staples Corner junction in north London, England.

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References

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

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