John Peel
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John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly
Peel in London, 1999
Peel Acres in Great Finborough, Suffolk
Studio at Peel Acres
Peel at a Yalding House studio, 1997
Heswall
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Heswall is a town on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it became part of Merseyside in 1974. At the time of the 2021 census, the population of the built up area, as defined
John Peel
…which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives. Peel was born John Robert Parker Ravenscroft at a nursing home in Heswall in Merseyside on 30 August 1939, the son of Joan Mary (née Swainson) and cotton merchant Robert Leslie Ravenscroft. He had two younger brothers and…
Telegraph Road
Jug & Bottle, formerly Hill House. Headquarters of Wirral Urban District Council from 1936 to 1974
Heswall Dales, with views across the Dee Estuary to North Wales
Heswall bus station