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Metro-land is a BBC documentary film written and narrated by the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Sir John Betjeman.[1]

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  1. 110 relations: A. N. Wilson, Agapemonites, Amersham, Amyas Connell, Arthur Honegger, Arthur Sullivan, Arts and Crafts movement, Aylesbury railway station, Baker Street tube station, BBC, BBC Four, BBC One, BBC Two, Bluebell Railway, Bread (band), Brill Tramway, British Empire Exhibition, British Film Institute, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, C. F. A. Voysey, Candida Lycett Green, Charles Saatchi, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Chiltern Court, Chorleywood, Chorleywood Common, Christopher Booker, Clapton, London, Clive James, Croxley Green, Dan Cruickshank, Down by the Lazy River, DVD, Edward Elgar, Edward Mirzoeff, Edward Watkin, Eiffel Tower, Empire, Leicester Square, Eric Simms (ornithologist), Evening Standard, Everything I Own, FA Cup, Forty Years On (song), Garden gnome, George Frideric Handel, Gilbert and Sullivan, Grim's Dyke, Harrow School, Harrow Weald, ... Expand index (60 more) »

  2. 1973 television specials
  3. Amersham
  4. Documentary films about London
  5. Documentary films about transport
  6. Films directed by Edward Mirzoeff
  7. London Underground in popular culture
  8. Transport design in London
  9. Works about London
  10. Works by John Betjeman

A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history.

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Agapemonites

The Agapemonites or Community of The Son of Man was a Christian religious group or sect that existed in England from 1846 to 1956.

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Amersham

Amersham is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, south-east of Aylesbury and north-east of High Wycombe.

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Amyas Connell

Amyas Douglas Connell (23 June 1901 – 19 April 1980) was a highly influential New Zealand architect of the mid-twentieth century.

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Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

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Arthur Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.

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Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.

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Aylesbury railway station

Aylesbury railway station is a railway station in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, on the London–Aylesbury line from via Amersham.

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Baker Street tube station

Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bluebell Railway

The Bluebell Railway is an heritage line in West Sussex in England.

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Bread (band)

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Brill Tramway

The Brill Tramway, also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway Brill Branch, was a six-mile (10 km) rail line in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England.

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British Empire Exhibition

The British Empire Exhibition was a colonial exhibition held at Wembley Park, London England from 23 April to 1 November 1924 and from 9 May to 31 October 1925.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a railway museum operated by the Quainton Railway Society Ltd.

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C. F. A. Voysey

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (28 May 1857 – 12 February 1941) was an English architect and furniture and textile designer.

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Candida Lycett Green

Candida Rose Lycett Green (née Betjeman; 22 September 194219 August 2014) was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things.

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Charles Saatchi

Charles Saatchi (Tšārliz Sā‘atjī; born 9 June 1943) is an Iraqi-British businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi.

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Chattanooga Choo Choo

"Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a 1941 song that was written by Mack Gordon and composed by Harry Warren.

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Chiltern Court

Chiltern Court, Baker Street, London, is a large block of flats at the street's northern end, facing Regent's Park and Marylebone Road.

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Chorleywood

Chorleywood is a village and civil parish in the Three Rivers District, Hertfordshire, on the border with Buckinghamshire, approximately northwest of Charing Cross.

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Chorleywood Common

Chorleywood Common is a 75.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Chorleywood in Hertfordshire.

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Christopher Booker

Christopher John Penrice Booker (7 October 1937 – 3 July 2019) was an English journalist and author.

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Clapton, London

Clapton is a district of East London, England, in the London Borough of Hackney.

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Clive James

Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.

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Croxley Green

Croxley Green is both a village and a suburb of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England.

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Dan Cruickshank

Daniel Gordon Raffan Cruickshank (born 26 August 1949) is a British art historian and BBC television presenter, with a special interest in the history of architecture.

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Down by the Lazy River

"Down by the Lazy River" is a song written by Alan and Merrill Osmond and performed by The Osmonds, it was produced by Alan Osmond and Michael Lloyd.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Edward Mirzoeff

Edward Mirzoeff CVO, CBE (born 11 April 1936) is a prominent British television producer and documentary filmmaker.

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Edward Watkin

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet (26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur.

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Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.

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Empire, Leicester Square

The Empire, Leicester Square is a cinema currently operated by Cineworld on the north side of Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom.

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Eric Simms (ornithologist)

Eric Arthur Simms, DFC (24 August 1921 – 1 March 2009) was an English ornithologist, naturalist, writer, sound recordist, broadcaster and conservationist, as well as a decorated wartime Bomber Command pilot/ bomb-aimer.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Everything I Own

"Everything I Own" is a song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates.

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FA Cup

The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in domestic English football.

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Forty Years On (song)

"Forty Years On" is a song written by Edward Ernest Bowen and John Farmer in 1872.

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Garden gnome

Garden gnomes (lit) are lawn ornament figurines of small humanoid creatures based on the mythological creature and diminutive spirit which occur in Renaissance magic and alchemy, known as gnomes.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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Grim's Dyke

Grim's Dyke (sometimes called Graeme's Dyke until late 1891)How, Harry.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.

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Harrow Weald

Harrow Weald is a suburban district in Greater London, England.

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Horsted Keynes

Horsted Keynes is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

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Jack Hylton

Jack Hylton (born John Greenhalgh Hilton; 2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario.

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Jessie Seymour Irvine

Jessie Seymour Irvine (26 July 1836 – 2 September 1887) was the daughter of a Church of Scotland parish minister who served at Dunottar, Peterhead, and Crimond in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman, (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.

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Leicester Square

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England.

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Len Rawle

Len Rawle (4 January 1938 – 14 November 2023) was a Welsh organ builder and organist.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Borough of Harrow

The London Borough of Harrow is a London borough in northwest London, England; it forms part of Outer London.

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London Passenger Transport Board

The London Passenger Transport Board was the organisation responsible for local public transport in London and its environs from 1933 to 1948.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.

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London Underground S7 and S8 Stock

The London Underground S7 and S8 Stock, commonly referred to as S Stock, is a type of passenger train running on the London Underground's subsurface lines since 2010.

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Marlborough Road tube station

Marlborough Road is a disused London Underground station in St John's Wood, northwest London NW8, England.

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Melville Gideon

Melville J. Gideon (May 21, 1884 – November 11, 1933) was an American composer, lyricist and performer of ragtime music, composing many themes for hit Broadway musicals including The Co-Optimists and The Beauty Spot.

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"Metal Guru" is a song by the British rock band T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan.

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Metro-land

Metro-land (or Metroland – see note on spelling, below) is a name given to the suburban areas that were built to the north-west of London in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex in the early part of the 20th century that were served by the Metropolitan Railway. Metro-Land (1973 film) and Metro-land are Amersham and transport design in London.

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Metropolitan line

The Metropolitan line, colloquially known as the Met, is a London Underground line between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in Hillingdon. Metro-Land (1973 film) and Metropolitan line are Amersham.

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Metropolitan Railway

The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.

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Middle Claydon

Middle Claydon is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Miles Kington

Miles Beresford Kington (13 May 1941 – 30 January 2008) was a British journalist, musician (a double bass player for Instant Sunshine and other groups) and broadcaster.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Moor Park (house)

Moor Park is a Neo-Palladian mansion set within several hundred acres of parkland to the south-east of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England.

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Moor Park Golf Club

Moor Park Golf Club is a country club located in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England.

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Neasden

Neasden is a suburban area in northwest London, England.

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On the Sunny Side of the Street

"On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a 1930 song composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

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Patricia Preece

Patricia Preece, Lady Spencer (22 January 1894 – 19 May 1966), born Ruby Vivian Preece, was an English artist, associated with the Bloomsbury Group, and the second wife of painter Stanley Spencer, for whom she modelled.

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Pinner

Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, England, northwest of Charing Cross, close to the border with Hillingdon, historically in the county of Middlesex.

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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister.

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Private Eye

Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961.

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Quainton Road railway station

Quainton Road railway station was opened in 1868 in under-developed countryside near Quainton, in the English county of Buckinghamshire, from London.

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Richard Ingrams

Richard Reid Ingrams (born 19 August 1937) is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and founding editor of The Oldie magazine.

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Rickmansworth

Rickmansworth is a town in south-west Hertfordshire, England, located approximately north-west of central London, south-west of Watford and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway.

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Robin Scott (BBC controller)

Robin Hugh Scutt (24 October 1920 – 7 February 2000), better known as Robin Scott, was a British broadcasting executive.

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Roy Fox

Roy Fox (October 25, 1901 – March 20, 1982) was an American-born British dance bandleader who was popular in Britain during the British dance band era.

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Saint George's Day

Saint George's Day is the feast day of Saint George, celebrated by Christian churches, countries, regions, and cities of which he is the patron saint, including Albania, Bulgaria, England, Ethiopia, Greece, Georgia, Portugal, Romania, Syria, Lebanon, Castile and León, Catalonia, Alcoi, Aragon, Genoa, and Rio de Janeiro.

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Savoy Havana Band

The Savoy Havana Band was a British dance band of the 1920s.

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Screenonline

Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.

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Shipton Lee

Shipton Lee is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Quainton, in the county of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Simon Jenkins

Sir Simon David Jenkins FLSW (born 10 June 1943) is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster in the West End of London.

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St John's Wood

St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross.

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Stanley Spencer

Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter.

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T. Rex (band)

T.

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The Architectural Review

The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Osmonds

The Osmonds were an American family music group who reached the height of their fame in the early to mid-1970s.

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The Temperance Seven

The Temperance Seven is a British band originally active in the 1950s, specialising in 1920s-style jazz music.

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Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt".

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Tiger Rag

"Tiger Rag" is a jazz standard that was recorded and copyrighted by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917.

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Vanessa Feltz

Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television personality, broadcaster, and journalist.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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Walford Davies

Sir Henry Walford Davies (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was an English composer, organist, and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941.

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Watkin's Tower

Watkin's Tower was a partially completed iron lattice tower in Wembley Park, London, England.

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Wembley

Wembley is a large suburbIn British English, "suburb" often refers to the secondary urban centres of a city. Wembley is not a suburb in the American sense, i.e. a single-family residential area outside of the city itself. in the London Borough of Brent, north-west London, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Wembley Stadium (1923)

The original Wembley Stadium (originally known as the Empire Stadium) was a football stadium in Wembley, London, best known for hosting important football matches.

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Wetherspoons

J D Wetherspoon (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Willie Rushton

William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English actor, cartoonist, comedian and satirist who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer.

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1966 FIFA World Cup

The 1966 FIFA World Cup was the eighth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams.

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See also

1973 television specials

Amersham

Documentary films about London

Documentary films about transport

Films directed by Edward Mirzoeff

London Underground in popular culture

Transport design in London

Works about London

Works by John Betjeman

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Land_(1973_film)

Also known as Metro-Land (TV film), Metro-land (TV series), Metro-land (TV).

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