Royal Crescent
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The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger, and built between 1767 and 1774, it is
Royal Crescent from a hot air balloon, contrasting its uniform public front façade against its more architecturally varied private rear.
The Royal Crescent in Bath by Thomas Malton 1780
Ha-ha in front of the Royal Crescent
The completion of the building work in 1769
John Cleese
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John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and television presenter. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Fes
Royal Crescent
…English professor George Saintsbury took up residence at number 1A in 1916. 21st-century residents include the English comedian, actor and writer John Cleese, best known for Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers. The houses and flats in the Crescent are a mixture of tenures. After World War II when…
Cleese in 2026
"Argument Clinic" sketch with Palin (standing) at Monty Python Live (Mostly), in 2014
Cleese appearing at the 61st Academy Awards in March 1989
Cleese in 2008