Gloucester Crescent, Camden
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Gloucester Crescent is an 1840s Victorian residential crescent in Camden Town in London which from the early 1960s gained a bohemian reputation as “the trendiest street in London” and "Britain's cleve
Photograph of the crescent in 2016
School of Sound Recording London in The Rotunda at 42 Gloucester Crescent
23 Gloucester Crescent, home for over 40 years to author and playwright Alan Bennett, and for 15 years on the driveway for Margaret Fairchild
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including four BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. In 20
Gloucester Crescent, Camden
…London” and "Britain's cleverest street" when it became home for many British writers, artists and intellectuals including Jonathan Miller, George Melly, Alan Bennett and Alice Thomas Ellis. Gloucester Crescent was designed in the Italianate style by the architect Henry Bassett, and completed in the 1840s. It runs…
Bennett in 1973; photographed by Allan Warren
Bennett (second left, on top of the piano) in Beyond the Fringe on Broadway c. 1962. Also pictured are (left to right): Dudley Moore (seated at the piano), Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller.
A 2007 production of Bennett's The History Boys at The Doon School, India.
The headstone, in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, of Alan Bennett's Uncle Clarence, subject of a 1985 radio monologue