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Local Heroes in Harrow, Middlesex*

Harrow, Middlesex Famous Residents

Cringing Cult of Celebrity (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

• the bloke who sang that 'myah hee myah hoo' song was on a student exchange here. and apparently the woman who sang the song on the 'I Love Horses' advert works in WHSmith in st. anns
• Hiedi, from the sugerbabes. That BBC comedy Hy Hero was filmed in Pinner, though set in northolt,
• SEAN DE PAUL (pinner) Roger Moore (broadfields) Winson Churchill (Harrow School) apparently some dude like oswald moesly-was he a nazi or summt- was mp here once, when he wasnt a nazi! (derek told me!) Stanley Moore (stanmore)
• Faye Tozer (ex-Steps curly blonde) has a Tudor cottage in Pinner. David Suchet and Claire Rayner are also residents. George Michael, Elton John, Clive Anderson, Mark Ramprakash, Jeremy Joseph, Lord Sutch and Michael Portillo were brought up here.
• fearne cotton, winston churchill, pter andre, sugababes, ex-easties ppl and many more!
• Was shown on Graham Norton
• well peter from fame acadamy lives in harrow on the hill now - although e aint really famous, fearne cotton used 2 go skool here, elton john comes from pinner, winston churchill went harrow skool, n iv heard a rumour that busted r movin here - it aint the most borin place in the world!
• It is a little known fact that drugs guru and occultist Simon jolson lived in harrow for at least 8 years. It was during this period, in the 1940s, that that he designed the woolfrog statue, and formulated many of his theories on chaos magic and .
• winston churchill
• Colin Lloyd Tucker went to Whitmore High (which used to be Lascelles) but he was known then as Colin Tucker. He would sing regularly in the school hall and play in the brass band lead by Eric Smith. He went on to work with lots of famous people and now has his own web site which at no point mentions Harrow !
• Holby City/This Life/Grange Hill actress Luisa Bradshaw-White used to live in Eastcote and was often spotted in St.Annes
• Todd Carty (played Tucker Jenkins in Grange hill & Mark fowler in Eastenders) - went to Roxeth Manor School, South Harrow. Adam Ant - lived in Harrow.
• Sir Patrick Moore was born in Pinner, and Scot of the Antarctic's second-in-command Dr Edward Wilson lodged in Pinner before moving to Harrow Weald.
• Nelson's illgetimate daughter, Horatia,is buried in Pains Lane cemetry,Pinner, where she lived.
• I keep spotting Dave Vanian from the Damned, an old punk band still going with Captain Sensible. I think he lives on the hill someplace.
• david suchet (poirot)
• Olive Smith, the crazy un known freedom of choice guru from the late seventies. she was arrested in USA whilst on holiday for having a smidgen of cannibis about her personage in 1954. There was a huge appeal for her release via embasy, seeing as she was in for life, in a secure unit. Got out and came back to her home, but not after spending 3 years in a uk secure unit getting more drugs on 'scrip than see could ever have afforded. (see she got off by pleading insanity)Freaked out a bit and spent the rest of her days protesting, campaigning and running about the hill naked. She beleived that you have the right to do as u wish, to abolish prisons and make it law that everyone should be bisexual. Sadly she died of a car incidnet in 1978.
• Molly Wier, star of 1970s TV commercials for Flash floor cleaner.This is obviously where the glitterati hang out!
• Clare Raynor! She lives up on t'hill.
• Colin Lloyd Tucker, singer songwriter who releases albums of his own having worked with the likes of The Blockheads, The The, Prince and Kate Bush was brought up in Harrow and I think went to Lascelles school.
• Clive Anderson chat show host went to my old school Stanburn- well my headteacher said so!!!
• Faye Tozer from Steps lives on Moss Lane in Pinner, and the Sugababes met at school in nearby Kingsbury
• Elton John
• peter andre used 2 liv on st. kidas road! argghh
• Claire "who ate all the pies" Rayner
• Psycho Pearce, and Vinnie Jones. Psycho's hard as nails - good lad!, Vinnie's just some welsh puff who thinks that just coz he's got a skin head he qualify's to be a Wealdstone Boy!(HW)
• Molly Weir - played the elderly ghost in Rentaghost lives (lived???) in Pinner
• Thomas Grimwade, the inventor of dessicated milk, was the farmer at Sheepcote Farm, Watford Road, Harrow at the time of the Crimean War.
• Faye and Lee from Steps (the pop group) now live in Pinner (not together) as does the actor David Suchet and Bob Holness the presenter.
• Bob Holness and Barry Cryer are both residents in the borough of Harrow.
• Claire "who ate all the pies" Rayner I'll have an E please Bob" Holness Carlos from Poland, still holding up the traffic for hours while he crosses the road.
• Bob Holness- I used to serve him and he was the most sweetest man and always wished me well.
• Apparantly Simon Le Bon went to my primary school- Cannon Lane. Oh and who can 4get Bob Holness who lives in Pinner
• Ant & Dec Robson Green and his blone mate
• Screaming Lord Sutch used to live just two minutes from South Harrow station and committed suicide in that same house only a couple of years ago. Dave Vanian, the lead singer of 'The Damned' renowned punk group also lives up the road as does 70's keyboard king Rick Wakeman, jazz saxophonist Courtney Pine and reggae legend Alton Ellis.
• Bruce Welch, guitarist with the Shadows, used to live in Headstone Lane around the early '60's. Good bloke - would let you into the drive of the house, leave working under the bonnet of his white Rolls Royce Cloud to give autographs! Bruce had a very attractive girlfriend for a while, often seen coming and going from the house....rumuour was that she was Olivia Newton John. Ronnie Barker of the Two Ronnies lived in Pinner for many years, often used to give a friend of mine a lift to school in the mornings.
• FAYE FROM STEPS LIVES IN PINNER ONLY 1/2 MILE AWAY FROM HARROW AND A FAMOUS WOMENS WRITER LIVES ON HARROW HILL
• Faye from Steps Michelle Gayle Sugerbabes Danielle Denby-Ash(my family/eastenders)
• James Hitcocks!
• Claire Rayner lives behind Jato Dynamics on Bessborough road Harrow.
• George Michael lived nearby in Bushey. Geri Halliwell is from Costa Del Watford - her mum still cleans the shopping centre. Elton John is from Pinner!! and i think lots of famous people went to harrow school.
• Ronnie Barker lived in Pinner as does Bob Holness. Winston Churchill went to Harrow School.
• Stuart Pearce, my hero , used to play for Wealdstone.
• George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley both lived in Bushey where I live now and went to Bushey Meads School. I lived in Harrow for 28 years in Littleton Road and Ginger Baker, drummer in Cream, lived opposite me for many years. Often saw Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton turning up. Also Bert Weedon lived in Sudbury Avenue about half a mile away.
• Didnt Claire Rayner live in Rayners Lane, North Harrow?
• ELTON JOHN WINSTON CHURCHILL SCREAMING LORD SUTCH JOHN BETJEMAN HEATH ROBINSON
• The Who played at the now closed (but still standing) Railway Hotel on Wealdstone Railway Bridge (itself the scene of tragedy when about 150 people were killed in the railway crash of the early 1950s. Both current MPs (Gareth Thomas (Harrow West) and Tony McNulty (Harrow East) were locally educated. Ironic, as there are at present no Old Harrovian MPs in the Commons for the first time since 1722...
• Famous persons. Well minutely famous. I used to live in Wealdstone and became known to the media after a hairdressing accident in 1993 which left me with hair loss, a record out of court settlement against a hairdressers, TV, radio, newspaper and magazine appearances and the development of the Brenda Howe Foundation to lobby Parliament to bring in legislation for the hairdressing industry. see www.myhair.org.uk Cheers Brenda
• David Elleray, football referee and supporter of Chelsea, teaches Geography at Harrow School, though we envy Pinner, who have Bob Holness.
• Lord Byron. Winston Churchill. Marco Pirroni. Peter Andre (Cough, choke, wheeze...) Jo Brand.
• Screaming Lord Sutch
• Bob Holness (of Blockbuster fame), Clare Rayner
• Claire Rayner seems to have changed her allegiance as regards supermarket shopping from Safeway in Hatch End to Waitrose in South Harrow - at least, I've seen her there on two Saturday mornings this month (January 2000).
• George Michael actually went to school at Roe Green in Kinsbury - I know someone who used to teach him. He still has some juvenile poems by George - they are appreciating in value ...
• Mark Ramprakash - Evelyn Drive's finest resident Sir Rhodes Boyson - Never been able to look at him in the same way in Marks & Spencer's since his interview with Ali G on the 11 O'Clock show Ronny Barker
• Matt Lucas (George Dawes) and Spencer Cobrin (Morrissey's drummer) are from Stanmore. Mick Lynch (ex-Stump frontman) worked in St.Annes food gallery. Jazz saxophonist, Courtney Pine is from Kingsbury.
• I understand George Michael lived in or around Pinner at some point.
• Jawaharlal Nehru went to Harrow School. (Former Indian Prime Miniser)
• Steve Lucas - just missed out on England Cap - but played for many league clubs
• winston churchill went to harrow school the man from dexys midnight runners went to st gregorys and so did a few other famous bods. mr motivator lives in kenton
• Vinny Jones and Stuart Pearce both played for wealdstone f.c
• Winston Churchill and Lord Byron went to school here. I believe Byron is burried in the beautiful church on the Hill.
• Linford Christie lives in Northwood and has been regularly seen doing his weekly shopping in Safeways in Hatch End Re: Clare Rayner - what a cow - always insists on the bacon in Safeways being specially sliced just for her. None of the stuff already there on display - leave that to us peasants!
• Bob Holness of "Blockbusters" fame is from Pinner and can often be seen browsing in the local bookshops
• The 'voice of the balls' - Alan Dedicoat lives in Harrow
• Claire Rayner
• Diane Abbott (forget the name of the place Somerset, or Sussex Road??) just off the old 183 bus route between North Harrow and Harrow. Michael Portillo, Clive Anderson, etc - all ex-Harrow County School.
• Elton John used to go to my old school in Pinner!
• Simon Le Bon used to live in Pinner. One day, God will forgive us.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• The pan pipes band outside marks&sparks every Saturday.How many times do they think we want to hear their tinny cover versions?
• There is a constant post by Marks and Spencers where a group are collecting signatures for abused animals. I support the cause but do not feel that the harsh and sickening pictures should be on display as it intimidates people who are only out 4 a bit of shoppin
• weird religious people handing out leaflets and shouting at passers by. usually christian but not always. this is harrow town centre. a week or so ago they had a whole army show set up, i think they were recruiting or showing off or something. they always do shit like that in the shopping parade in harrow.
• well, there's this mad old fart who sits singing out of the bible.
• USed to be a old man playing the keyboard in town centre. what happened to him? Hopefully he has gone for good. BErnard used to be the local tramp but he got run over a few years ago. poor Bernard.
• sadly that cute, cute indie kid who sings like a dream and looks like an angel has disappeared so we're left with a small selection o banjo playing dwarfs or those singing religious people. make them og away. please. make them stop.
• always loud, always brash, always lively. cheap enterainment. ranging from the over-enthusiastic religious choirs singing god's praises to the rather annoying one-band stationed outside m&s to the petrifying religious zealots who stop to take a short minute out of their busy saturday schedule to condemn you all to hell. and of course how could i not mention the cute indie fanatic stationed outside river island, easy on the ears and even easer on the eye who likes to brighten up many a femles saturday morning. when it comes to music there is no place like harrow. no part of suburbia has ever done street entertainment ever better. as annoying-ly bouncy as harrow steel group they liven up a shopping trip like no other.
• Every busker I've ever witnessed has been pretty boring;
• Harrow is too second rate for those people who spray themselves white and hardly move, so we have to make do with a real statue instead.
• There's a guy in the middle of the town centre, who just plays a string.... just one string... sounds pretty cool actually.
• here's always a handfull in harrow town centre at the w/end including one old boy who plays the most beautiful jazz/blues Usually in St Annes Road

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