#West Hampstead

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An area, known as "le Rudyng" (indicating a woodland clearing) in the mid-13th century, had by 1534 come to be called West End. It was then a freehold estate belonging to Kilburn Priory, and was so called because it was at the west end of another, larger estate. Although it is possible that there was a dwelling on the estate prior to 1244, an estate house was certainly extant by 1646. West End Lane (named as such by 1644), the main road through the area, is still bent at a right-angle at the north and south ends where it connects to Finchley Road and Edgware Road respectively. This is because the lane used to form the boundary between a number of different estates.

By the early 17th century several houses were present, and by the middle of that century London merchants were building larger houses in the area. By 1800 West End was a hamlet of two to three dozen houses and cottages located in parkland, mostly on the west side of West End Lane and Fortune Green Lane, and north of the present-day railway lines. West End Lane had been rerouted, making it straighter and lying further to the west than previously. In 1851 residents were mainly agricultural labourers, gardeners, craftsmen and tradespeople, with an innkeeper, two beershop keepers, a schoolmistress and a few gentry. There were three main large houses: West End House, West End Hall and Lauriston Lodge.

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The latest in the fake Londoners saga - letdown imbeciles are claiming that the Men's Pond on Hampstead Heath is no longer a cruising ground for gay men, and nor is Hampstead Heath itself. The level of ignorance on there is terrifying.

Gay West Heath really is, like much of the gay scene, the most mixed of bags: lawyers get it on with barrow boys, multimillionaires with the unemployed - even celebrities with other celebrities. The male only Bathing Pond Hampstead Heath is in summer the hot spot for London boys to swim and cruise around. The Male Only swimming pond (Highgate Bathing Ponds) is to be found east section of the Hampstead Heath.The closest tube and rail way station is Gospel Oak. To access the pond there is a very cruisy changing area. Left from it you will also find a separate nude sunbathing area. In the fenced enclosure nudity is de rigeur amongst the regulars - the serious swimmers, chess players, weight-lifters, readers and sunbathers for whom this is a sort of club. Out on the springboards and in the water, costumes are required.

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The Beatles at West Hampstead Studios photographed by Robert Whitaker

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Johnny Rotten in Teddy Boy quiff & attire with a studded leather dog collar around his neck as a splash of punk attitude in 1977 (since he's wearing the same clothes as in the Sex Pistols photo session by Adrian Boot at the Glitterbest offices in Oxford Str. in 1977).

According to Omega Auctions which sold this photograph for £750 in 2023, it originally belonged to Helen of Troy of the Sex Pistols entourage:

"...this photograph originally belonged to Helen Wellington-Lloyd. This was Helen Wellington-Lloyd’s favourite photograph of Johnny Rotten and was the only photograph of the Sex Pistols she had framed in her living room in her flat in West Hampstead where she lived until 1999."

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Genesis, West Hampstead, London, 70's. From: Genesis: I Know What I Like by Armando Gallo, 1980.

[zilabee]

Living The Beatles Legend:

After a lifetime of self-doubt over body issues and inveterate shyness, he simply couldn’t control himself. “Big Mal was a demon for sex,” Tony wrote. “[...] Like sacrificial virgins, a lot of the girls willingly accepted that they would have to do it with Mal to get to John, Paul, George, or Ringo, and Mal knew it.”

“A couple of newspaper friends put on a private show involving several prostitutes for our entertainment, one of them being very pregnant.” As Mal recalled, “It was a little unnerving to have these ladies performing before our eyes with each other in one room, with Brian, George Martin and Judy, and the rather more staid members of the press in the adjoining living room.”

“I was being entertained by a young lady late one evening,” Mal wrote, “when George rushes into the darkened room, stoned out of his mind, tearing the bedclothes off, shouting, ‘My turn next—come on, give us a bit!’” Mal gave way to the Beatle, concluding that “apart from that, I was the one that got screwed.”

By this point, [Lily] wasn’t just finding “silly groupie letters” in his suitcase, but also the occasional stray pair of knickers and other telltale signs of infidelity. She recognized that Mal was being seduced—and had been for some time—by overwhelming forces, impulses with which she could hardly begin to compete.

After her brother returned from the States, June recalled that “Malcolm came home knackered, absolutely shattered from that tour.” [...] Her brother and the Beatles were living in a “totally unreal world—an extraordinary, horrendous, wonderful, terrible place that they were all existing in during that period. And they were all damaged by it. They suddenly could have anything they wanted.”

After sharing a convivial dinner with Victoria’s father, who retired early, Mal (31yo) and Victoria (16yo) returned to the hotel and went up to the twenty-seventh floor. [..] “Mal was very sweet,” she recalled, “and we talked and we talked, and we sort of made out.” And while she was unable to meet the Beatles the next morning to do an interview, she exchanged contact information with Mal. And later that year, the letters from her new pen pal began arriving, elegantly adorned with “this beautiful British handwriting.” *

Eventually, Mal would develop a vital relationship of his own with the Scruffs, although he had his detractors—namely, Carol Bedford, a peripheral member of their scrum and a George aficionado who later claimed that Mal tried to put the moves on her. Apparently, Mal had continued to approach women in the Beatles’ universe in the same transactional manner in which he and Neil had “auditioned” willing fans during the band’s touring years. Another Apple Scruff recalled a similar instance when Mal’s attempts to cozy up to the Scruffs went terribly wrong. Apparently, he had crawled under one of the girls’ blankets and “touched something he shouldn’t have.” With that, the offended Scruff came flying out from under the blanket yelling, “Who do you think you are, Paul McCartney?” **

Since leaving the hospital, [Arwen (21yo)] had reared Little Malcolm in her cramped lodgings in West Hampstead. At some point, around the age of six months, he was put up for adoption, leaving her care lock, stock, and barrel, with Mal’s teddy bear as the baby’s only consolation. Mal’s diary would enumerate lunches and telephone calls with the young woman at various points across 1969, but eventually, Arwen chose to move on, putting the whole painful episode behind her. ***

[For his son's birthday] Mal made a cassette recording in which he offered his sincere wishes for the coming year. [...] But any goodwill Mal hoped to deliver was quickly undone that morning as Gary listened to the recording over breakfast with his mother and sister. To his incredible pain and embarrassment, the tape didn’t end with his father’s birthday greeting. Apparently, Mal had recycled the cassette, and as Gary and his sister prepared to go to school, they heard the unmistakable sounds of Fran fellating their dad. The boy’s only solace was the knowledge that his eight-year-old sister didn’t understand the sounds emanating from the tape player.

[..]for the first time, Fran found herself afraid of her boyfriend, whose darkness had never been more acute. It all came to a head one night when Mal, drunk to the gills, began threatening her with his Colt Woodsman pistol, at one point placing the gun against her head before discharging it into the washing machine. When he sobered up, Mal couldn’t have been more apologetic, swearing to mend his ways and be the boyfriend she deserved.

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Another quote under the cut, with trigger warning for rape and attempted suicide - and a few notes about some of it.

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June 1964 - New Zealand

At the time, the official story involved a twenty-year-old female fan who, having secreted her way into the hotel, chose to slash her wrists in Mal’s room after being unable to talk her way into the Beatles’ suite. Fortunately, police caught sight of the young woman through a window and broke down the locked door with a battering ram. She was subsequently taken to a local hospital and discharged that same day.

[There are then some bits about how Derek tried to ensure it didn't link back to the Beatles in anyway, and the way the press reported it as "Girl Tries To Die For Beatles", and someone else claiming she'd actually had sex with someone and then got 'hysterical' because she realised he wasn't going to get her in to see the Beatles... but eventually it cuts to the quote from Mal's diary below.]

“On arriving back at the hotel at two in the morning,” he wrote, “I was greeted by a crowd of police and detectives as the elevator doors opened at my floor. On verifying that I occupied a particular room number, they very solemnly escorted me there, where to my horror on opening the door, I found the bathroom and bedroom covered in blood. Apparently, what had happened [was] several people had gang-banged her in my bedroom. She was so distraught, she took a razor blade from my razor and slashed her wrists, but was discovered in time and recovered in hospital. Obviously I was a prime suspect, but I had the best alibi in the world—I was drinking tea with her mother.” ****

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* Victoria was 16, and Mal was 31. He wrote with her for a few years and met up with her again several times, and there's a quote where she says she "thought she was in love with him", and another where she was surprised to find out he was married. He's a grown man with a family and it's creepy as fuck that he was leading on/grooming a 16 year old girl - although I think according to the book they never had sex.

** I've bolded a lot of the wording which fucks me the fuck off in that passage about apple scruffs, what a fucking weird piece of writing. Apparently apparently apparently - I don't even think he's using it to suggest it might not be true, I think he's just using it to make it sound a bit casual, oh turns out he was just treating them like shit like he used to! Oh he was just 'cozying up' ??????? The last bit also feels like the girl being able to fight her corner and tell him off is being used to suggest it therefore didn't matter - not to suggest that there were probably lots of other girls who didn't want his hands on them but didn't know how to say no. It's also quickly followed by a quote of another apple scruff saying he took care of them like a big brother and they all loved him. Which is fine. But teenage girls feeling as though the creepy guy who is being nice to them in order to take advantage is just being nice to them, doesn't mean much. It's creepy that he was trying to befriend the young vulnerable girls that idolised anyone who worked with Beatles, you've literally just said he was doing it in a 'transactional manner'.

*** The author used a pseudonym for Arwen - a young woman that Mal had an affair and a child with. He wrote in his diary when the child was born, and visited them, "gifting the boy with an oversize teddy bear from Harrods". Personally I think 'chose to move on' covers an awful lot of pain very glibly. Imagine having to give your baby away after six months, imagine what she went through. It is not a small thing that he carelessly got a young woman pregnant and then offered her nothing.

**** I think we all live in Beatles fandom knowing that the people we enjoy did awful terrible things, but sometimes it's good to confront how bad it was, even if we'll never know who was involved in this particular incident. Or how often it happened to other women. Whether Beatles were involved here or not, they were around this, they were inside it. They were influenced by and friends with horrible people. Imagine writing that in your diary like it's a good joke that you were having tea with her mum while she was going through that, and not how awful that would actually feel if you had a heart. The author adds that this incident affected Mal, saying, "His “demon” persona was still alive and well, to be sure, but there would be perceptible shifts in his outlook as the group’s touring days moved forward." I didn't really pick up on these, so I'm not sure how so.

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The Scottish actor David McCallum was born on 19th September 1933.

Born as David Keith McCallum, Jr in Maryhill, Glasgow, the second of two sons of Dorothy Dorman, a cellist, and orchestral violinist David McCallum Sr. When he was three, his family moved to London for his father to play as concertmaster in the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in the Second World War, he was evacuated back to Scotland, where he lived with his mother at Gartocharn by Loch Lomond.

McCallum won a scholarship to University College School, a boys’ independent school in Hampstead, London, where, encouraged by his parents to prepare for a career in music, he played the oboe.In 1946 he began doing boy voices for the BBC radio repertory company. Also involved in local amateur drama, at age 17, he appeared as Oberon in an open-air production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Play and Pageant Union. He left school at age 18 and was conscripted, joining the 3rd Battalion the Middlesex Regiment, which was seconded to the Royal West African Frontier Force.In March 1954 he was promoted to Lieutenant. After leaving the army he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (also in London), where Joan Collins was a classmate.

David McCallum’s acting career has spanned six decades; however, these days he is best known for his starring role on the police procedural NCIS as medical examiner as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard. I first really remember McCallum for his role in another US show, The Invisible Man which ran for 13 episodes in the 70’s. McCallum by then was a veteran of many TV and Film roles, starting in the 50’s including Our Mutual Friend and The Eustace Diamonds, in the 60’s he was in several ITV Playhouse shows before moving across the Atlantic to take roles in The Outer Limits and his big break as Illya Kuryakin in several incantations of The Man from Uncle.

His most notable films were The Greatest Story Ever Told as Judas Iscariot and of course Ashley-Pitt ‘Dispersal’ in The Great Escape.

As well as the aforementioned Invisible Man in the 70’s he took time to pop back over to our shores to star in two quality series, as Flt. Lt. Simon Carter in Colditz and Alan Breck Stewart in an adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s, Kidnapped.

The 80’s saw him team up with the lovely Joanna Lumley in Sapphire & Steel and several guest roles in the likes of The A Team, Hart to Hart and Murder, She Wrote as well as a one off reprise of Illya in the TV movie The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair.

The 90’s saw David in Cluedo and Trainer on our TV screens over here and American science-fiction series VR-5 in the states..

During the last 20 years or so he has been in the kids TV show, Ben 10: Omniverse as the voice of Professor Paradox and of course Donald Horatio “Ducky” Mallard in a remarkable  436 episodes of the popular NCIS.

David has been married twice. He married his first wife Jill Ireland in 1957. They met on the set of the movie Hell Drivers. Together, they had two sons and a daughter, Paul, Jason and Valentine, with Jason being the only one who was adopted. In 1963, David introduced Jill to his co-star on The Great Escape, Charles Bronson, and she left David and married Charles in 1968. In 1967,

David McCallum passed away aged 90 on September 23rd last year, he is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katherine McCallum, his sons Paul McCallum, Valentine McCallum and Peter McCallum, his daughter Sophie McCallum and his eight grandchildren. NCIS paid tribute to him in an episode called The Stories We Leave Behind when the tagents find comfort in working on one of his unfinished cases. The episode features clips from several old shows.

[justforbooks]

Marianne Faithfull

Singer who found pop fame and tabloid infamy in the 60s but returned to music in the 70s with Broken English, a statement of bloody-minded survival

Those who first glimpsed Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s as Mick Jagger’s angelic girlfriend, or the winsome singer of As Tears Go By, probably did not imagine she would go on to forge a career of more than 50 years as a songwriter and recording artist in her own right. Faithfull, who has died aged 78, released 22 solo albums and collaborated with many big names in music. She also had some success as an actor. All of it was achieved against a backdrop of addiction and personal struggles that she did not hide.

When the 17-year-old Faithfull was spotted by the Rolling Stones’ manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, at a Stones launch party in 1964, she had already been taking tentative steps as a folk singer. Oldham’s antennae sensed the potential.

Her upbringing had equipped her for the bubbling social laboratory of the mid-60s. Marianne’s mother, Eva Erisso, was a Viennese baroness descended from the Habsburg dynasty, and had performed as a ballet dancer with the Max Reinhardt Company in her youth. Her father, Glynn Faithfull, a major in British army intelligence, met Eva in Vienna and brought her back to postwar Britain. Born in Hampstead, north London, Marianne spent her early years at a commune with which her father had become involved at Braziers Park in south Oxfordshire. After her parents divorced, she attended St Joseph’s convent school in Reading, Berkshire.

Oldham paired Faithfull up with the Jagger-Richards composition As Tears Go By, which the Stones themselves had not yet recorded. Her pop career lifted off immediately. She cut a string of successful singles, including Come and Stay With Me, This Little Bird and Summer Nights. She reached the UK Top 10 four times in 1964-65 and scored a Top 40 success with a cover of the Beatles’ Yesterday.

However, her progress was impeded by her marriage to the gallerist and cultural scene-maker John Dunbar in 1965. The couple had a son, Nicholas, when Faithfull was 18, but the union was short-lived. Faithfull took her baby and sought refuge with the Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones and his girlfriend, the model Anita Pallenberg, in London. She was drawn into the Stones’ inner circle, and soon began her affair with Jagger. The 1967 drugs raid on Keith Richards’ West Sussex home, Redlands, brought her tabloid infamy as “girl in a fur skin rug”.

Faithfull’s creative ambitions extended into acting, where she achieved notable successes. On stage, she appeared in Chekhov’s Three Sisters and played Ophelia to Nicol Williamson’s Hamlet. On celluloid, she provoked shivers of excitement as the leather-clad heroine of The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), and was cast as the demonic Lilith in Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising. In later life, she played the Empress Maria Theresa in Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette (2006) and appeared in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous in 2001 playing God, with Pallenberg as the Devil.

Her relationship with Jagger disintegrated in 1970, the year she suffered a miscarriage. When she also lost custody of Nicholas, she attempted suicide and fell into heroin addiction. In 1969 she had written the song Sister Morphine, later recorded by the Stones for the album Sticky Fingers, apparently before she had ever tried the drug. Now she spent two years as an addict, living on the streets of Soho.

With help from various friends, and enrolled in an NHS treatment programme, she persevered with efforts to restart her singing career, and after moving to Ireland she hit the top of the Irish charts with her 1976 single Dreamin’ My Dreams.

In 1979 she married the musician Ben Brierly, the same year in which she recorded her highly praised comeback album, Broken English. The disc introduced a startlingly transformed Faithfull, singing songs of rage and disgust. Why D’Ya Do It, an obscene tirade of sexual jealousy (with words by Heathcote Williams), still stands as one of rock music’s most shockingly taboo-busting moments. As a statement of bloody-minded survival from a woman written off by many as beautiful but doomed, it was hard to beat.

The turn of the 80s brought another album, Dangerous Acquaintances, and a move to New York. She struck up a rapport with the producer Hal Willner, who recruited her to sing Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife for his Kurt Weill tribute album, Lost in the Stars (1985). Two years later Willner produced Faithfull’s album Strange Weather, on which she displayed her still-expanding artistry via covers of songs by Jerome Kern, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, as well as a new version of As Tears Go By.

But her emotional life continued to be wreckage-strewn, as she underwent more rehab treatment for her continuing addiction and conducted an affair with a fellow-addict, Howard Tose, who died after jumping out of a window when it ended. She divorced Brierly in 1986 and married the actor Giorgio della Terza in 1988. They divorced in 1991.

In 1994 she delivered Faithfull: An Autobiography, which bristled with gripping yarns about her past, her famous friends and her addictions. “I really have been as honest as I possibly could,” she said. “Truth is terribly relative, of course.” In 1995 she collaborated with the composer Angelo Badalamenti on A Secret Life, but then found herself developing an increasing interest in Weill and Germany’s Weimar Republic era. On the live album 20th Century Blues (1996) she performed Weill (as well as Harry Nilsson and Noël Coward) with just piano and string bass, then cemented her claim to be a new Lotte Lenya by performing Brecht and Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins at the Salzburg festival. A recording of the piece followed.

Daniel Lanois was in the producer’s chair for her next project, Vagabond Ways (1999), on which she contrasted her own material with pieces by Leonard Cohen, Elton John and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. Waters had recruited her for his 1990 performance of The Wall in Berlin. She described the material as “dark, dark, dark”, and commented that “I sing my shadow. I’m singing the dark side of myself.” Abuzz with creative energy, she cut Kissin’ Time in 2002 with several fashionable collaborators, including Beck and Jarvis Cocker, then teamed up with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave for Before the Poison (2005).

In 2006 a diagnosis of breast cancer forced her to cancel a concert tour. Then, living in Paris with her manager and boyfriend, François Ravard, she underwent treatment and was back onstage in early 2007 with her touring show Songs of Innocence and Experience. In October that year she announced that she had been suffering from the liver-threatening disease hepatitis C for more than a decade. The following month, she released a second volume of autobiography, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, and was nominated for the best actress award by the European Film Academy for her portrayal of Maggie, a 60-year-old widow working in the sex industry in Sam Garbarski’s film Irina Palm.

A diverse album of cover versions recorded with Willner, Easy Come, Easy Go, appeared in Europe in 2008, and in the UK and the US the following year. Faithfull had taken much of that year off to recuperate from “mental, physical and nervous exhaustion”, but in 2009 she began a string of concert dates across Europe and the US.

Horses and High Heels (2011) contrasted 60s classics with a batch of new songs. In 2012, Faithfull performed in a fully staged production of The Seven Deadly Sins in Linz. During the show’s run she explored further her roots in Mitteleuropa when she was the subject of the BBC TV show Who Do You Think You Are?, investigating her mother’s history in 1920s Berlin and wartime Vienna.

A performance in 2013 at the Meltdown festival in London, curated by Yoko Ono, was followed by a burst of songwriting activity in which Faithfull collaborated with Waters, Steve Earle, Tom McRae and others, resulting in her 20th solo album, Give My Love to London (2014).

Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record, telling her life story through a selection of pictures by renowned photographers, was published in 2014. A live album, No Exit (2016), was recorded on a tour marking her 50th anniversary as a recording artist, which continued despite disruptions to the schedule caused by Faithfull suffering complications from a broken hip. On Negative Capability (2018), she co-wrote eight of the songs, as well as re-recording old favourites.

In April 2020 Faithfull spent three weeks in hospital suffering from Covid-19. She was seriously ill and the virus did lasting damage to her lungs. She admitted it was possible she would never sing again, but told the Guardian: “I do believe in miracles.” She was able to finish a new album, She Walks in Beauty, on which she recited the poetry of Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth, and which was released in 2021.

She is survived by her son.

🔔 Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull, singer, songwriter and actor, born 29 December 1946; died 30 January 2025

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for your lovely ocs! 🚗🚫🐈🍎💜

thank youuuu <3

🚗 CAR — does your oc have a driver's license? can they drive/operate any automobiles/machinery besides cars?

Quinn--yes he's got his license! likes to think he can drive a tank but it's doubtful...

Vincent--yes as well. he has an extensive collection of vintage motorcycles 👌

🚫 PROHIBITED — does your oc drink/smoke? do they do it regularly, or is it more on occasion or for special events?

Quinn--smoker and drinker (british innit) he smokes way more than he should and likes to drink when he goes out

Vincent--will smoke if the mood strikes, but doesn't often. has recently been enjoying some vampire-friendly cocktails

🐈 CAT — does your oc prefer a wide circle of friends or a few close friends?

Quinn--only close friends, which are very limited. gets along with most of the people he works with, but doesn't like large groups

Vincent--I think it depends. he has his select acquaintances that he prefers over others, but he doesn't mind being social with a variety of people

🍎 RED APPLE — where was your oc born? do they still live in/around their place of birth or do they live somewhere else? how do they feel about their birthplace?

Quinn--born in Sheffield. grew up in a smaller town outside the area. he still has a flat in the city, but will live on base most of the time. he has...mixed feelings about his home city. he'll claim it's shite but there's still stuff he likes about it

Vincent--born in Hampstead London around the turn of the century. had a rather posh upbringing there. now he's got a flat on the outskirts of Oxford, but he still thinks fondly of his childhood home (now some overpriced airbnb undoubtedly..)

💜 PURPLE HEART — what is your oc's ancestry/genetic background?

Quinn--predominately English on his father's side, but his mother's side is Irish

Vincent--his father is caucasian English, and his mother was born in Jamaica, from a West African origin