Famous neighbours?

[goody]

I used to live next door to (the late) Mr.Rumbold of Are You Being Served fame.
Can anyone better that, I doubt it!

 

[Profpointy]

My dad lived in the same street as George Thomas / Viscount Tonypandy

 

[PaulSecteur]

Next door plus one was a local celeb because she had 6 kids by the time she 19.

 

[TVC]

Margaret Rutherford used to live down the road from us.

Our next door neighbour was the chief set chippy at television centre. The base board for his lad's train set was the Larry Grayson era Generation Game doors.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Prince was my neighbour but he died so...

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I stayed in Holland Park for a few months. My upstairs neighbour was Carla Lane and next door was some bloke from Pink Floyd.

 

[slowmotion]

Douglas Hurd lived around the corner when he was Home Secretary during the last IRA bombing binge. He had 24 hour police protection so I always made a point of parking my van outside his house, figuring that no car thief would be daft enough to try and nick it. One of his protection officers asked if he could look into the back of it one night, and banged on the bottom of the cargo compartment before giving me the all clear. I asked him to get his gun out if anybody laid a finger on Vauxhall's finest.

"I'd probably shoot myself in the foot, Sir".

 

[oldfatfool]

Terry Utley the bassist from Smokie used to live a street away, went to school with his daughter for a couple of years.

 

[Cubist]

Jasper Carrot used to live three doors away from us, we then moved to a village where Trevor Francis lived. Four of us were fishing in a pond we thought was on some common land but were tackled by the owner, Mick McManus the wrestler. Lovely bloke, said we could carry on as long as we didn't leave any litter!

 

[YahudaMoon]

Charlotte Bronte the poet/novelist lived and started the novel 'Jane Eyre' apposite my residence, also lived in my local public house

 

[Pale Rider]

I lived in a flat in Camberwell Grove in south east London in the 90s.

Lorraine Chase lived opposite, and Robert Kee - television journalist - lived further up.

Interesting street for the architectural and social historians.

Very varied when I was there.

Some of the listed Georgian terraced houses were immaculate and lived in by wealthy people, yet at the top end some were squats.

I was somewhere in the middle, occupying one floor of a tatty terraced house which had been converted into flats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camberwell_Grove

 

[ianrauk]

When I lived on Fulham, Cheryl from Bucks Fizz lived opposite. She regularly had to as us to turn our music down. Also a couple of doors down was a F1 driver but can't remember his name.

 

[Markymark]

I live next door to Gary. He's an accountant.

 

[Jimidh]

I used to live at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh - had quite a famous woman who used Holyrood Palace as a holiday home in the summer.

She was quite friendly too - always waved when she went past in her car!!

 

[Dave 123]

I live next door to Gary. He's an accountant.

That's a bit low rent for a high roller like you. I thought it would be 'Liz & Phil'

Monty Swan the wrestler used to live a few doors down. I used to play with his son Glen as a kid.