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Post by rondetto on May 29, 2017 12:06:09 GMT
Former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes has died at the age of 83.
Remember his famous "Get down Shep"
R.I.P John
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Post by marispiper on May 29, 2017 14:29:49 GMT
I can vouch for them. I have seen them in the flesh. 😨 What DO you mean??? |
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Post by marispiper on May 29, 2017 14:31:39 GMT
^^^ Just looking at her photo,I immediately heard her 'Eurovision' voice in my head. So distinctive.. 😄 She always looked good too. It was the Camay y'know... |
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Post by ARENA on May 30, 2017 6:50:21 GMT
Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group, and the sister of Virginia Woolf. Vanessa Stephen was the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Princep Duckworth (1846–1895). Her parents lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London, and Vanessa lived there until 1904.  |
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Post by aubrey on May 30, 2017 8:47:26 GMT
Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones; born 30 May 1971) is an English film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the science fiction film Moon (2009), winning the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, Source Code (2011) and Warcraft (2016). He is the son of late English singer David Bowie and American model Angie Bowie.  |
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Post by aubrey on May 31, 2017 7:17:48 GMT
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist, musician, and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog.  |
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Post by ARENA on May 31, 2017 7:47:51 GMT
William Heath Robinson (signed as W. Heath Robinson, 31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of eccentric machines. In the UK, the term "Heath Robinson" has entered the language as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contraption.   |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 1, 2017 7:23:17 GMT
Robert Newton (1 June 1905 – 25 March 1956) was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. He was cited as a role model by actors Tony Hancock, Oliver Reed, and drummer Keith Moon. Newton is best remembered for portraying the feverish-eyed Long John Silver.  |
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Post by marispiper on Jun 1, 2017 7:25:57 GMT
Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones; born 30 May 1971) is an English film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the science fiction film Moon (2009), winning the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, Source Code (2011) and Warcraft (2016). He is the son of late English singer David Bowie and American model Angie Bowie. Did I tell you that my grand daughter has been named Ivy Bowie... I said nothing. |
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Post by rondetto on Jun 1, 2017 16:12:17 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Jun 2, 2017 7:30:50 GMT
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 3, 2017 7:32:49 GMT
Joy Shelton was born in London on 3 June 1922. She appeared in a number of British films in the 1940s and '50s, most notably in two by Sidney Gilliat, Millions Like Us, which traced the wartime life of an ordinary London family, and Waterloo Road, in which she was fought over by John Mills and Stewart Granger. She was a popular radio personality and played the part of Joan Carr in The Adventures of PC 49 for the BBC. This series ran from 1947 until 1953, totalling 112 episodes. She also appeared in the film version, A Case for PC 49 (1950).  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 4, 2017 7:46:39 GMT
James Buckley Stringer Davis, generally known as Stringer Davis (4 June 1899 – 29 August 1973), was an English character actor. He was married to actress Dame Margaret Rutherford. Davis was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. He was reportedly bisexual and married fellow performer Margaret Rutherford in 1945 when he was still struggling professionally.  |
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Post by ARENA on Jun 5, 2017 7:05:57 GMT
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer and critic. Drabble was born in Sheffield, the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie (née Bloor). Her elder sister is the novelist and critic Dame Antonia Byatt; their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon.  |
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Post by aubrey on Jun 5, 2017 7:43:43 GMT
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer and critic. Drabble was born in Sheffield, the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie (née Bloor). Her elder sister is the novelist and critic Dame Antonia Byatt; their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon. I always liked her, but I can't stick her sister at any price - Possession was a terrible book, one of those literary writers doing a pastiche novel. God, it annoyed me though. |
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