Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Calne, Wiltshire*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• clive farrahar
• Jade Jagger. Jamie Lee. Jenny Lacey. they are all so missed
• Jess TATE!!also Eva Rice, Jade Jagger and a good few ladys and countesses
• Martin Simms once lived here! great golfer turned professional.
• tim rice was recently seen leaving st marys school
• Jess Tate is a legend, has now been expelled from St. Mary's for tipping pond water over Mrs. Adlers head (deputy head)WHat a laugh!
• Jade Jagger( who got expelled), Eva Rice- Tim Rice's daughter, will young's cousin, oh and i saw prince harry in st mary's once!!

• Tori Amos made a pop video in Curzon Park a few years ago. The song never made it into the UK top 40 so we never got to see it though. My bro saw it on a huge video wall in a record shop in Washington DC though. said it was really weird seeing Calne glorified like that!! Anyway while they were filming the vid, some jippos nicked a load of the film props. Typical Calne!!!
• clive farahar ( antiques road show),david hemmings (actor - Blowup, Gladiator etc...)Joseph Priestly (Oxygen discoverer) Wheatstone (of the electrical bridge)
• bob burns- a living legend of the early sports centre days.
• St. Mary's is known for the most amount of celebs, or celebs daughters in this school... amazing but true.... the St. Mary's girls also have a very high standard of Etonians in their beds on the free weekends and also after the socials.
• Steve Russell poet can be found on www.poetry.com
• There are a few but they wouldn't want to admit it.
• Rod Hull

• One of Mick Jaggers daughters (I think it was Jade) attended St Marys School!!
• Julian Cope lives there
• Some old bloke who used to be in b&w films!!!
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge visited Calne on holiday and, in all probability, wrote parts of 'The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner' whilst languishing in an opium induced stupour, in a town as far from the sea as you can get. Far out!
• Err... the bloke who invented pork curing?? (Mr. Harris?)
• Julian Cope (Teardrop Explodes etc), Rustic Rod Goodway (sixties pop musician)
• Priestley - bloke who 'invented' oxygen (allegedly - usual story about racing other contemporary researchers to be first to publish).
• Calne's most famous claim to fame was that Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen by looking at bubbles in the river here, while he was staying in the house up at Bowood in the 18th Century. St. Edmund who celebrated his 950 anniversary in 1976 was Vicar of Calne when he was appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury. Walter Goodall George held the World Mile Record for running the mile in just over 4 minutes for about 17 years at the end of the last century/the beginning of this one.
• Was oxygen discovered here by Priestly or did he copy the idea?

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