#Esher Surrey

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Wayneflete Tower,

Esher, Borough of Elmbridge, Surrey, United Kingdom

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Kinfauns, now sadly demolished. But the circular windows were saved.

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Greens, residents and LibDems put squeeze on Tory Surrey

Follow the yellow brick road: political editor WALTER CRONXITE takes a flight of fancy over the new political map of south-east England after last week’s local elections, which have given the LibDems much encouragement Pathway to success?: the LibDems are targeting Tory ministers’ seats in Surrey after last week’s results The fields of Surrey, Sussex and Kent are awash in vibrant green and yellow…

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GEORGE HARRISON and PATTIE BOYD leave Kinfauns to go to the Walton and Esher Magistrates Court, March 18, 1969.

  She was at Kinfauns, their bungalow home in Esher, Surrey, playing genial hostess to a group of visitors from Scotland Yard’s drug squad. She recalled the events in her memoir Wonderful Tonight: ‘Suddenly I heard a lot of cars on the gravel in the drive – far too many for it to be just George. My first thought was that maybe Paul and Linda wanted to party after the wedding. Then the bell rang. I opened the door to find a policewoman and a dog standing outside. At that moment the back-doorbell rang and I thought, Oh, my God, this is so scary! I’m surrounded by police.

The man in charge introduced himself as Detective Sergeant Pilcher, from Scotland Yard, and handed me a piece of paper. I knew why he was there: he thought we had drugs, and he said he was going to search the house. In they came, about eight policemen through the front, another five or six through the back and there were more in the greenhouse. The policewoman said she would follow me while the others searched and didn’t let me out of her sight. I said, ‘Why are you doing this? We don’t have any drugs. I’m going to phone my husband.’ I rang George at Apple. ‘George, it’s your worst nightmare. Come home.’

The officers clearly thought the Harrisons would be at Paul’s wedding. The timing was not a coincidence. (...) Pilcher had already busted Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Donovan, as well as Lennon and Yoko the previous year. National treasures or not, The Beatles were no longer protected from the law. - ‘And in the End: The Last Days of The Beatles’ Ken McNab

  I was with George in the office when that call came through. It was the end of a long day at Apple. Pattie rang and said, ‘They’re here – the law is here,’ and we knew what to do by then. We phoned Release’s lawyer, Martin Polden. We had a routine: he came round to Apple, and we all went down by limousine to Esher, where the police were well ensconced by then – and I stood bail for George and Pattie. They went off to the police station. We were all extremely indignant because it was the day of Paul’s wedding, a poor way to celebrate it. The police can be so nice.

George was calm about it. George is always calm – he sometimes gets a grump, but he’s always calm – and he was extremely calm that night, and very, very indignant. He went into the house and looked around at all these men and one woman, and said something like. ‘Birds have nests and animals have holes, but man has nowhere to lay his head.’ – ‘Oh, really, sir? Sorry to tell you we have to…’ and then into the police routine.

That’s how calm and how cross he was, because, as he said, he kept his dope in the box where dope went, and his joss sticks went in the joss stick box. He was a man who ran an orderly late-Sixties household, with beautiful things and some nice stuff to smoke.

 In my opinion he didn’t have to be busted because he was doing nobody any harm. I still believe what they did was an intrusion into personal life. - Derek Taylor in ‘The Beatles Anthology’

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July 15th 1964 - John buys Kenwood🌻🌻🌻

Kenwood is a house on the St George's Hill estate, Weybridge, Surrey, England. Originally called the Brown House, it was designed by architect T. A. Allen, and built in 1913 by Love & Sons, a local building firm. The estate was constructed around the Weybridge Golf Club, which was designed in 1912 by Harry Colt. John Lennon, of the Beatles, bought Kenwood for £20,000 (equivalent to £511,900 in 2023) on July 15th 1964, on the advice of the Beatles' accountants, Walter Strach and James Isherwood. Lennon was resident from the summer of 1964 until the late spring of 1968. Film of the gate and the exterior of the house was included in an ITN programme called Reporting 66 in 1966. Parts of a home movie showing Lennon at Kenwood in 1967 were featured in the film Imagine: John Lennon🌻🌸🌻

Kenwood is close to Sunny Heights, the former home of Ringo Starr, and a short drive from Kinfauns, George Harrison's former home in Esher. In October 2006, Kenwood went back on the market at a price of £5.95 million; it was sold in January 2007 for £5.8 million🌸

Via Beatles and Cavern Club Photos FB🌻

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Princess Anne at the National Honey Show at Sandown Park Racecourse in Esher, Surrey on 26th October 2023.

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Pattie Boyd: My Life In Pictures — 1/?

George and I went to look at a house called Kinfauns in Esher in Surrey, which would eventually become our first home together. It was so suburban, ghastly, hideous. I was horrified. That’s when George took these photos of me with my camera. Brian Epstein wanted to get all of the Beatles out of London as it was becoming very difficult to either leave or come into the London flat because there were so many girls outside. -Pattie Boyd

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From 2016 and 2017 eBay listings, photos of George Harrison and Pattie Boyd at Benclare, the bungalow they rented during their Barbados honeymoon, February 1966, photographer unknown; plus two color photos from their honeymoon, possibly taken by a fan, auctioned by Rago Arts and Auction Center in 2016.

“Pattie Boyd remembers: ‘I was with the Beatles, and all these musicians — and it was a very merry group of people. And I did feel, we are the leaders, the world is ours, and it’ll always be like this. I couldn’t see it crumbling, I couldn’t see it disintegrating. I just thought, this is wonderful! It’s not my parents’ world which is so grey and dull, with no color, no music, not much laughter. I felt at last I’d arrived in the “proper” world.’ [In July 1964, George purchased] a gated bungalow [Kinfauns, see: #harrisonarchivekinfauns] in Esher, Surrey [for himself and Pattie], with a swimming pool and a large garden. But London was near enough for clubs, parties and celebrity screenings. Pattie acquired a white Persian cat called Korky, while George bought an E-type Jaguar and later an Aston Martin DB5. They became vegetarians — but ‘we didn’t eat much…’ Pattie’s favorite was still sweets. The house resonated with the sound of George’s guitar. ‘We were really happy at that time. We were young and creative, and we had lots of friends and musicians who would come over all the time — Mick Jagger for example, and Brian Jones would come quite often, and my brothers and sisters. With George, I could play! I could be a child again. Those were the times I thought would never end.’” - How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson (x)

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Wisteria Lodge

Our third story from His Last Bow - we've already done "The Dying Detective" and "The Cardboard Box".

This was published in two parts in The Strand.

Take a note of the Watsonian date here because this will be important later.

A reply-paid telegram was one where the sender also paid for the cost of any reply, up to a certain word limit (48 words for inland telegrams in the 1896 Post Office Guide).

You could send a telegram at most bigger post offices, or you could complete a pre-paid form and put it in a post box.

"Toilet" had a definition of the style of one's appearance.

Eccles is from Lee, which we've visited already in "The Man with The Twisted Lip" and which I discuss in my post for that.

Esher is today a town of around 7,000 people but part of a larger built-up area, thirteen miles from Charing Cross. While sitting outside the Greater London boundary in Surrey, the urban sprawl of London does not match the administrative boundaries and Esher is on the outer edge of this. You can in fact hit some serious countryside while staying within the city limits.

It also sat outside the Metropolitan Police District.

The town was historically a stagecoach stop on the London to Portsmouth road, which later become the A3 before that was diverted via a bypass around the town. It is home to the Sandown Park racecourse and George Harrison lived there for a while.

The railway station, then called Esher and Claremont (the latter being a Lancelot "Capability" Brown-designed mansion, then owned by a widowed daughter-in-law of Queen Victoria, her youngest son Prince Leopold having died due to haemophilia after a fall in 1884) is on the mainline from Waterloo to Weymouth - Aldershot being a bit further along on a branch line. It takes around half an hour to get there by modern electric train; only suburban services stop there, with express trains going straight through the disused centre platforms.

Spain, as a major power (even if most of its empire had already gone) and a monarchy, warranted an Embassy. San Pedro only would have had a legation.

There's quite a bit of racism in this one!

Some pictures of dog-grates can be found here.

Doors on many trains could be opened from the inside at the time, including on the move with the associated risks involved.

War crimes trials were not really a thing at this time.

Yet another case of the villains dying off-page!

The broad plot of this would not be out of place in a modern crime drama.

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A Fish Called Wanda plotholes...

Yup, PLOTHOLES, fellows, plotholes.

Wanda and Otto drive to Archie in the light of day. We can see it's summer, and the light looks like it's early evening, so it's presumeably not later than 6 p.m. in the evening.

Portia and Wendy also leave in the light of day for the opera. Operas usually take about 2 hours including a 30 minute break which means it's likely to start at 7:30 p.m. and finish at 10 p.m..

Let's just say, for argument's sake, that they go to the Royal Opera ; this is their route according to google maps:

As you can see it takes them about 1:15 h to get from Esher, Surrey to the opera, depending on the traffic. So if Wendy plans + 15 extraminutes for the traffic to be at opera around 7:15 p.m. she and Portia are leaving around 5:45 p.m..

5:45 p.m. + 1:15 h driving time + 15 extraminutes = 7:15 p.m..

And it makes sense when you look at the lighting of the scene and the daylight.

When their car breakes down it happens in the light of day. And as far as I'm concerned, they can't have gotten very far, so presumeably they're still in Esher.

Wanda and Otto are already in Esher as we can see when they come accross Wendy and Portia.

In the meantime it gets dark so Archie switches the lights on...

BUT when Wanda and Otto break into Archie's house, it's dark all of a sudden??

Remember: it's summer here, so it won't get dark until 9, 9:30 p.m.!

That leaves me with 2 questions:

- Did Wanda and Otto wait until it gets dark before they break in?

- If so, what the hell did they do until it got dark?

It would make sense for Wanda and Otto to wait until it's dark though but that would lead us back to question 2.

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

The Young English 🇬🇧 Lily 💮 Actress Of Beautiful & Dazzling Acting In Cinema 🎥 Today

Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson was born on 5 April 1989 in Esher, Surrey, the daughter of Ninette Mantle, an actress, and James "Jamie" Thomson, a musician. She has two brothers, one older and one younger. Her paternal grandmother, Helen Horton, was an American actress.

better known by her stage name Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film Cinderella (2015).

James went on to portray Natasha Rostova in the television adaptation of War & Peace (2016) and starred in several films, including the action film Baby Driver (2017), the period dramas Darkest Hour (2017), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) and The Dig (2021), and the musicals Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) and Yesterday (2019). Her portrayal of Pamela Anderson in the biographical series Pam & Tommy (2022) earned her nominations for a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Please Wish This Young & Delightful English Lily 💮Actress Of Beautiful Cinema 🎥 A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

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Happy 35th Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You Ms. James💮🇬🇧 & Heres To Many More Years To Come

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"George and I went to look at a house called Kinfauns in Esher in Surrey, which would eventually become our first home together. It was so suburban, ghastly, hideous. I was horrified. That's when George took these photos of me with my camera. Brian Epstein wanted to get all of the Beatles out of London as it was becoming very difficult to either leave or come into the London flat because there were so many girls outside." -Pattie Boyd

Pattie walking around the grounds at Kinfauns. The house newly purchased by George. Located In Esher Surrey George recalled "It was the first one I saw, and thought, that'll do". Photos taken by George in 1964. The last slide is a new photograph from this session, all up for auction in Pattie's collection

Via @pattie.boyd.post on Instagram

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Court Circular | 26th October 2023

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal this morning opened the National Honey Show at Sandown Park Racecourse, Portsmouth Road, Esher, on the occasion of its Centenary and was received by His Majesty’s Lord- Lieutenant of Surrey (Mr. Michael More-Molyneux).

Her Royal Highness, Royal Patron, the Security Institute, this afternoon attended the Annual Conference at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1, and was received by Mr Stuart Shilson (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

The Princess Royal, President, Royal Yachting Association, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, this evening attended a Dinner at Trinity House, Tower Hill, London EC3, on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Yachtmaster Scheme.