Character in the novel Robinson Crusoe. In the picture Friday is grovelling to Crusoe.
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Les Miserables the musical
Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985. Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...
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Marley's ghost
One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).
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She Stoops to Conquer
Comic play. Probably the best known work of Oliver Goldsmith. Originally entitled 'Mistakes of a Night'. The daughter of a wealthy countryman poses as a servant in order to win over her nervous sui...
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Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple, village spinster detective, created by Agatha Christie. Played by many actors, including: Gracie Fields, Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and Joan Hickson.
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Dick Whittington
Born in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, second son of a wealthy man. Thrice Lord Mayor of London: 1397, 1406 and 1420 (actually four times but two were consecutive). Three times Master of the Mercers' C...
Person, Literature, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Theatre
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40 Great Ormond Street
An early 18th century house, demolished in 1965 with its doorcase being rescued and reused in Great James's Street.
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Spike Milligan
Goon. Born as Terence Alan Milligan near Bombay, India, his father being an Irish soldier who met his wife, Florence Winifred Kettleband, in India. Both parents were amateur, would-be professional,...
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Korean War
This war, the first UN action against aggression, has not officially ended but a ceasefire has held since 1953.
3 memorials
De Vere's mansion
Medieval mansion sometime home of Edward de Vere. Built c. 14th century, demolished c. 1710.
2 memorials
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