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Local Heroes in Great Malvern, Worcestershire*

Great Malvern, Worcestershire Famous Residents

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

• tim for big brother-saw him in heron news+i hes very tall+had to shout at him to get out of way,nuska from big brother(anyone seeing a pattern here???),elgar,me+also did everyone know that tolkein+c.s lewis used to regularly walk on the hills together+have drinks in the unicorn-YAY!
• justin lamb
• Um... i saw Noel from Hear Say once here, but i dont think anyone famous would want to live here!!!
• NUSH of Big Brother! Surely her new-found celeb status affords her a mention here? Well done Nush.
• Paul Farrer who composed the music for the weakest link now owns 87% of Malvern
• Sammy Knight - round the world athlete
• apparently andrew WK lives here...
• Didn't Langland, author of Piers Plowman, live around here? He's said to have drawn inspiration while gazing at view from Malvern Hills. I also noticed a plaque saying Birmingham radical Thomas Atwood (a prominent Chartist) died in Malvern, having gone to convalesce. (it's on what's now part of the college).
• Nigel Kennedy, the big GBW, Elgar (you can meet him at Belle Vue Terrace but he might seem a bit cold), Mr Manby (Jack the Ripper suspect) CS Lewis went to the college (so he was a blazer wearing ponce then)
• Apartently Madge from neighbors had a little time in Malvern, no harold though.
• Saw Dirty Den recently
• Barbara Cartland went to MGC.. hmmm.. pink.
• there are loads of hippy tye people from bands and people like david lowe who did the song "would you" i know him my dads kinda famous because hes the editor of sound on sound the music magazine and has a recording studio.
• nigel kennedy and theatre types
• Jeremy Paxman, Denholm Elliot, Satan
• Nigel Kennedy... Erm... Some others. Probably. That bloke that did that "Umm... would you go to bed with me?" song.
• Well along, and down a street of West Malvern Rd Nigel Kennedy lives...not too interesting though...
• NIGEL KENEDY OZZY OSBOURNE CROMWELL VAUGHN BAKER AND THAT CRAPPY TRENDT TEENY BOPPER CHARTMUSIC WHICH I CANT REMEBER THEIR NAME (um....will you go to bed with me)
• Jeremy Paxman and Denholm Elliot (actor) went to school here
• Nigel Kennedy (Violinist) Lofty from It Ain't Half Hot Mum That bloke what did the "umm...I noticed you around" song
• Robert Smith of the Cure (Alledgedly) Dave Lowe of Touch & Go Charles Darwin C S Lewis Alastair Crowley
• -Edward Elgar (Composer) -Jenny Lind (Singer) -Nigel Kennedy (fiddler) -Radclyffe Hall (Writer) -Caratacus (anti-Roman revolutionary) Probably not true... -Aliester Crowley (Magician) Went to private school here. -Barry Jackson (Theatrical worthy) -The Queen (drinks only Malvern Water where ever she goes)
• Elgar was here. They invented the first programmable computer here, and als the liquid crystal display. My friend Tim Garrard was pushed into a hedge by my ex-wife, but survived to become Lord Chief Justice of Nigeria.
• Phil Bates of Electric Light Orchestra Part II lived in Malvern until July 1996
• George Bernard Shaw.
• Jenny Lind.
• Elgar.
• So did Roget - buried in St James' Church.
• Nigel Kennedy lives in West Malvern.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• They smell
• SKY! the local tramp, scavs ur fags, robs ur drink and scares the sh*t outta u!
• SKY TRAMP RAVER- ii'm ssooo STTTTTTOOOOONNEEEEDDDD!!
• Loads. The bloke in Barnards Green who bashes out tunes on the fulte come hell or high water, but always slightly too slow.
• Tramp outside somerfield
• SKY IS A GUITAR PLAYING ,THUMP THE SCOTS MAN LOOK ALIKEY WITH HULK HOGAN TRAMP BUSKA
• ooh, quite a few in Church street in the summer. Ranges from the lone piper, to a production of Grease
• -The "Theatre Of Small Convenience" - probably smallest Theatre in the world, established in a disused public toilet, Edith Walk, behind Church Street. -"Paescod" - Rascally Medieaval players and musically overtallented folk.

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Last updated: 2006-12-06