Actor. Born Reginald Alfred Varney in Canning Town. He appeared in the television series, 'The Rag Trade' and also the highly popular 'On the Buses', the latter of which produced three spin-off films. He was photographed making the first withdrawal from the supposed world's first cash machine.
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Reg Varney
Actor. Born John Joseph Nicholson in Neptune City, New Jersey. He has played a wide variety of characters in films inluding 'Easy Rider', 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and '...
Film director who settled in outer London and made many of his films here. Born New York City. The first film made in England was Lolita in 1962. He lived close to the film studios at Elstree and...
Detective novelist and playwright. Born in Torquay, into a well-off family, where a bust has been erected, as Agatha Miller. Married Archie Christie in 1914. In WW1 she trained and worked in a p...
Documentary film maker. Born Suffolk. Co-founder of the Mass Observation organisation (something like current day personal blogs but with pencil and paper). In 1936 he helped organise the Surreal...
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, largely on viaducts, between Deptford and Spa Road Bermondsey. By 1838 it had been extended at both ends: from Deptford to G...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
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