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The building housing the Eel Pie Island museum was built originally as a cinema.
It was called the Lyric and opened in 1911. It closed in 1930 as another cinema was built next door by Joseph Mears (who had started a small chain of cinemas which included the Kensington and Richmond Odeons). The new cinema became the Gaumont Twickenham and was demolished in 1958 and there is a petrol station on the site today. Amazingly the old Lyric building has survived and is again in a different use, open to the public.
John | 16.10.18 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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I used to go on Wednesday nights to watch the Rolling Stones at Eel Pie Island, if I recall correctly Mick Jagger would often have a pint of beer in his hand, of course they were an up and coming group back then and did not have the fame they later achieved. The area where the performances took place was very run down and if it rained water would sometimes drip in.
John | 16.10.18 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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John has not let us down this morning.
Mike | 16.10.18 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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My main memories of Orleans House Gallery is from sometime circa 1980's when they had a display of Gerard Hoffnung (died 1959) illustrations and Annette Hoffnug who had been his wife, gave an illustrated talk for a few nights during the exhibition. I got involved showing a 16mm film of one of Gerards concerts and in those pre PowerPoint days operating the slide projector.
John | 16.10.18 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Thanks DG for the information about Eel Pie island museum.
YDU | 16.10.18 - 8:48 a.m. | #
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Looks like the first Wednesday "Rock & Twist" night was the week before I was born!
Can't say I've heard of most of the line-up - only Mike Berry as Mr Spooner in Are You Being Served and Screaming Lord Sutch in his 1980s Monster Raving Looney days!
Cornish Cockney | 16.10.18 - 1:44 p.m. | #
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Ah... brings back memories... not of Eel Pie Island as such, but of seeing Long John Baldry and Alex Harvey at Saturday night "hops" at Birmingham University Union in the sixties... also Manfred Mann and very early Who... plus of course the local favourite Spencer Davis.
Jonalot | 16.10.18 - 4:30 p.m. | #
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Recently learned that the character Neil Pye in "The Young Ones" was named for the island. Did everyone else know this all along?
Klepsie | 16.10.18 - 10:48 p.m. | #
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Nice formatting innovation with the horizontal bar separating articles.
SJM | 17.10.18 - 9:07 p.m. | #
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