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  Eel Pie Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eel Pie Island was earlier called Twickenham Ait and, before that, The Parish Ait; even earlier the island was three separate aits.
In 2005, Eel Pie Island was briefly invaded by writer and presenter Danny Wallace, who intended to claim the territory as his own and form a new country, but order was swiftly restored when his two-man invasion force was routed by local authorities.
The centre of the island was devastated by fire in 1996 and a year later the footbridge was damaged by a utilities contractor, a new one being opened in August 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eel_Pie_Island   (498 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eel Pie Island, in the River Thames at Twickenham, England, can only be reached by footbridge or boat.
The island was the site of the now legendary The Eel Pie Hotel which was a genteel 19th century building hosting ballroom dancing during the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1967, Eel Pie Island Hotel was forced to close because the owner could not meet the £200,000 cost of repairs demanded by the police.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/e/ee/eel_pie_island.html   (234 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : Eel Pie Island
The island was previously known as Twickenham Ait, and before this, in the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1608, the Parish Ayte, reflecting the ownership.
The eel pies served were famous and led to the renaming of the island although with increased pollution the eel population declined and pies are no longer made.
The larger establishment took the name Eel Pie Hotel and the contribution which this establishment made to the development of British Pop music is described in another piece.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=213   (591 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island Records - Features - London - Time Out London
These days, the island is almost purely residential, bar one working boatyard: there are around 120 inhabitants in 40 houses of all shapes and sizes, plus numerous houseboats – the occupants of which Baylis once described as ‘50 drunks clinging to a mudflat’.
It took him a while to be accepted: Eel Pie, like many communes where people are trying to escape the norm, exudes an atmosphere that is simultaneously open-minded and closed to outsiders – if the residents could raise the bridge that connects them to the mainland on the Twickenham side, they probably would.
Pete Townshend was so taken by Eel Pie Island he named his music company after it and in the late ’60s would help out at the Simms’ boatyard, which once made the crafts for the Boat Race but which has long since closed down.
www.timeout.com /london/features/267.html   (1097 words)

  
 Island Anthology
Small islands differ in their characteristics.....There are high islands derived from volcanoes, or from aggregations of continental rocks, or from the elevation of reef rock.
Although all are "small" (islands or states), the experience of their land formations, whether by visitors or indigenous inhabitants, is vastly different--a difference which it is not (yet) possible to discern from the present categories.
Islands are candles, to be snuffed out one by one only for those island-living species which are territorially bound and unable either to adapt to, resist or retire in the face of innovation.
www.islandvulnerability.org /anthology.html   (16133 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An architect's dream project on Eel Pie Island in the River Thames at Twickenham came a step closer for Henry Harrison in 2002 with the successful pioneering application of Uretek deep injection to provide the only available alternative to traditional piling.
With access to the island by footbridge or tidal water, the costs of traditional piling were prohibitively high.
The ground conditions on Eel Pie Island are soft, being on the river edge with gravel and clay to a depth of 2.5 metres.
www.uretek.co.uk /eelpie_fullstory.html   (384 words)

  
 Richard Johnson
Eel Pie is like a social experiment, where leaking houseboats moor alongside architect-designed townhouses.
Island bores will tell you that the second largest pike in England was landed near the bridge, and that the tidal mud is home to a rare species of millipede.
The fire at the Eel Pie Marine in November 1996 accelerated the island’s gentrification.
www.rjsj.demon.co.uk /articles/sundaytimes/eelpie.htm   (3118 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island
""Eel Pie Island", in the River Thames at Twickenham can only be reached by footbridge or boat.
It has about 50 houses with 120 inhabitants with some small businesses and a nature reserve at each end.
The centre of the island was devastated by fire in 1996 and a year later, the footbridge collapsed, a new one being opened in August 1998.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ee/Eel_Pie_Island.html   (62 words)

  
 History
Eel Pie Island had an even longer pedigree in presenting R and B music.
In 1967, Eel Pie Island was forced to close because the owner could not meet the £200,000 worth of repairs which the police had deemed necessary and squatters soon moved in.
The Eel Pie Club was founded in April 2000 at the suggestion of musician, R and B guitarist, Tom Nolan.
www.eelpieclub.com /history.htm   (860 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island.
Eel Pie Island Hotel was eventually closed down, thats when the hippies moved in, many being ex mods.
When I first heard about the new Eel Pie Club (I went to see the Downliners Sect last year) I was excited, but was disappointed to find it not on the island, but you can't have everything.
Yeah the new Eel Pie RnB club is basically deadicated to the wealth of RnB scene that exsisted mainly in the 60,s.
www.modculture.co.uk /forum2/index.php?topic=1298   (821 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island - Richmond and Twickenham music mementos
It was Arthur Chisnall, a Kingston junk-shop owner, who had the idea of holding weekly dances at Eel Pie Island.
In the early '60s, Richmond and Twickenham became the centre of English randb, with The Crawdaddy Club and Eel Pie Island being the two of the main venues.
There are plenty of refs to '50s and '60s music from Eel Pie Island and other venues in the Richmond and Twickenham area, but very few to the music and the musicians that could be heard on Eel Pie during the first half of the twentieth century.
www.eelpie.org /music01.htm   (676 words)

  
 Interview (NOVEMBER 2005) - MYSTERY JETS - - - -
Originally, on the island, the band would rehearse, gig, and throw legendary parties in a boat yard, owned by Henry, who is also an architect.
Although they've only been on the island for the past 5 years, Will explained that: "We didn't grow up there but we would definitely be a different band if it wasn't for Eel Pie.
While half of Eel Pie Island seems to comprise of residual hippy throwbacks, eccentrics, and wealthy bohemians (interesting fact, Trevor Baylis, inventor of the Clockwork radio, currently lives there), the other half is typically middle class people who want to escape the city.
www.whisperinandhollerin.com /chat/chat.asp?id=3179   (1404 words)

  
 HOUSE ON EEL PIE ISLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The commission was won through a private competition organised by the client who had bought a shack on the island.
Eel Pie Island is connected to the mainland by a footbridge over the Thames.
It was known in the 6os as an early venue for the Rolling Stones and has a very unLondon feel to it.
www.boyarskymurphy.com /eelpie.html   (126 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island
Eel Pie Island is in the River Thames 10 miles southwest of central London.
These days Eel Pie Island most famous as the home of Pete Townshends' recording studio, Eel Pie Recording Productions Ltd. The Who guitarist also has a home in Twickenham which once belonged to Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Prints of the Eel Pie Hotel are available for sale at Par-Ici.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/rolling_stones/49176   (443 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : Jazz Greats at Eel Pie Island
Built in 1830, the Eel Pie Island Hotel had always been known for its musical attractions.
Arthur’s desire to see "trend-forming groups" play on the island led, in April 1956, to the first in a series of parties where crowds flocked to the island to listen to free jazz concerts.
The success of this early venture led to the establishment of the Eel Pie Island Jazz Club, providing musicians with another important venue in the thriving south-west London jazz scene.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=285   (517 words)

  
 Telling Trails - Charles Dickens
Eel Pie Island, or Twickenham Ait, as it was once known, lies in the middle of the Thames, with Twickenham on the Middlesex bank to one side, and Ham on the Surrey bank to the other.
In the nineteenth century, the island’s hotel was a popular resort among summertime boating parties.
Today, Eel Pie Island is a private residential place, with no hotel.
www.tellingtrails.co.uk /pages/individuals/dickenspage.html   (981 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island: Re: Re: brenda281
I used to work for my uncle in the early 50s at "Rivercars" that shared the river frontage overlooking Ham Fields with The Eel Pie Island Hotel and was literally next door.
The dock and slipway with the chalet type bungalow built over the dock entrance is still there, or was a few years ago.
This replaced the old,decrepit and dangerous chain ferry that ran from the slipway at the foot of Water Lane to the main Island pathway.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/rolling_stones/59951/827342   (385 words)

  
 The Downloader
Based on Eel Pie Island, the Bohemian stronghold in the middle of the Thames at Twickenham, the Mystery Jets embody British pop at its most invigoratingly weird.
Their original name was The Misery Jets, which was taken from an 'Evening Standard' headline (Eel Pie Island is under the Heathrow flight path - a plane used to go over every 50 seconds), changed to Mystery Jets when Blaine accidentally misspelled the name while painting it on a drum skin.
While a noise abatement order no longer allows them to play gigs in the Eel Pie Island boatyard on pain of a £20,000 fine, at the end of 2005 they took the Island on the road, with a tour named the Eel Pie Revue.
www.thedownloader.co.uk /article.php?id=2715   (1126 words)

  
 Victorian London - Publications - History - The Queen's London : a Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, ...
Eel Pie Island is familiar ground to those who frequent the River Thames in the neighbourhood of Twickenham.
The island, on which is an inn, is situated just above the famous Twickenham Ferry, and rising behind is seen St. Mary's Church, where is Warburton's monument to Pope, and where Kitty Clive lies buried.
But the poet's home was destroyed early in the present century, and his much-talked-of grotto underwent drastic alterations.
www.victorianlondon.org /ql/queenslondon29.htm   (186 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : Eel Pie Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Whilst the birth of British beat and rock music is often associated with the Beatles and the Liverpool Sound of the early 1960s, this quiet corner of West London had an equal and enduring influence.
In the 1960s The Eel Pie Hotel (on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham) and the Richmond based Crawdaddy Club and National Jazz Festival, along with myriad smaller live venues provided the showcase for performers who have become household names.
It was a 19th century tourist attraction and in the 1920s and 30s it hosted 'tea dances' on its sprung dance floor.
g.msn.com /9SE/1?http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=34&&DI=6244&IG=7ab3d8c0c7d24829976902519f3b3eee&POS=3&CM=WPU&CE=3&CS=AWP&SR=3   (338 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island - Wikipédia
Eel Pie Island, dans le Tamise à Twickenham à Londres, Angleterre, n'est accessible que par une passerelle ou par bateau.
Dorénavant, on nomme Eel Pie Island Twickenham Ait, et avant cela "The Parish Ait"
Les Eel Pie Studios de Pete Townshend, membre de The Who se trouvaient sur cette île.
fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eel_Pie_Island   (194 words)

  
 Twickenham Riverside Terrace Group (TRTG) - Press Release - Biodiversity
Without a consistent weight of water, it can be argued that a building of the size proposed, that will be built into the river foreshore, river bank and flood plain, is likely to cause heave in the river bed.
The effect on the river and Eel Pie island has not been calculated.
The removal of trees from within the site could lead to increased noise levels for Eel Pie Island residents and others in Water and Wharf Lanes, and the flats in King Street.
www.twickenhamriver.org.uk /press.htm   (775 words)

  
 FindMyNearest… in Eel Pie Island - UpMyStreet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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upmystreet.com /UK/findmynearest/.../results/in/Eel+Pie+Island.html   (318 words)

  
 The Scotsman - S2 - Smashing debut for the indie sprog rock from Eel Pie Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mystery Jets have often been tarred with the prog-rock brush but, despite a degree of indulgence across the board, there is only one track which really belongs in the pantheon of prog.
In the past couple of years, the group have carved a satisfying niche for themselves in sprawling London, mainly through a succession of impromptu gigs and parties on the intriguing Eel Pie Island, located on the Thames somewhere in the vicinity of Twickenham.
But now it is time to test the impact of their offbeat hybrid sound beyond the confines of their cosy bohemia.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=321912006   (1501 words)

  
 NME.COM - Reviews - Mystery Jets: Making Dens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hailing from Eel Pie Island, a ghostly landmass that time forgot and a former haunt to names as illustrious and long-dead as Henry VIII and Charles Dickens is off-kilter enough, but that's not nearly the half of it.
Not when you take into consideration the fact that their cards have been marked by the long arm of the Eel Pie law for continually pissing off the island's 120 inhabitants with their now-legendary riotous gatherings at the boathouse where they rehearse.
Or, for that matter, that they look like a rag-tag band of villainous tinkers from an old episode of Scooby Doo, think nothing of bursting into perfectly-harmonised four-part Gregorian chants and were weaned from an early age on the belief that all records made after 1975 are inherently evil.
www.nme.com /reviews/mystery-jets/7872   (1341 words)

  
 Eel Pie Island Hotel and L'Auberge - Twickenham and Richmond
He will appreciate being remembered by those who knew him from the Eel Pie days.
Met OJ on Eel Pie '69 - Weed
The Eel Pie Club - preserving and continue the local RandB heritage
www.eelpie.org   (240 words)

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