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SPIKE MILLIGAN A BIT ABOUT TERENCE ALAN MILLIGAN April 16th 1918- - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
SPIKE MILLIGAN A BIT ABOUT TERENCE ALAN MILLIGAN April 16th 1918- - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
SPIKE MILLIGAN A BIT ABOUT TERENCE ALAN MILLIGAN April 16th 1918- 27th February 2002 Irish father , English mother Spike following a band he heard on Radio Luxembourg, Spike Jones and the City Slickers Father Captain in
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A BIT ABOUT TERENCE ALAN MILLIGAN
➤ April 16th 1918- 27th February 2002 ➤ Irish father , English mother ➤ ‘Spike’ following a band he heard on Radio Luxembourg,’Spike
Jones and the City Slickers
➤ Father Captain in the British Army, India ➤ First marriage in 1952, three children, second marriage in
1962, One child. Third marriage in 1983.
➤ writer, comedian, musician an entertaining and complex man
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EARLY DAYS …
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1934 Stones' Engineering in Deptford (Arklow Road) Chislehurst Laundry. sacked from a tobacconist for stealing cigarettes labourer at Woolwich Arsenal. won a crooning contest at the Lady Florence Institute in Deptford, a talent show at Lewisham Hippodrome St Cyprians Church Hall in Brockley and Ladywell swimming baths. ukulele, bass and trumpet and guitar "My mother bought my first guitar for eighteen shillings from Len Stiles’ shop in Lewisham High Street" music classes at Goldsmiths in New Cross. He played with local dance bands member of the Brockley Communist party
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I was thrown without warning into a totally different life. We left the brilliant Indian sunlight, the white-hot blue skies, all the marvellous colours of India , and we ended up entombed in South London. It seemed like a slum. It was a slum. I think I was thrown into a state of shock from which I never properly recovered’
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The iron stove ignites the freezing room.
Last night's dinner cast off popples in the embers.
My mother lives in a steaming sink. Boiled haddock condenses on my plate
Its body cries for the sea
My father is shouldering his braces like a rifle,
and brushes the crumbling surface of his suit.
The Daily Herald lies jaundiced on the table.
'Jimmy Maxton speaks in Hyde Park',
My father places his unemployment cards in his wallet - there's plenty of room for them.
In greaseproof paper, my mother wraps my banana sandwiches
It's 5.40. Ten minutes to catch that last workman train.
Who's the last workman? Is it me? I might be famous.
My father and I walk out are eaten alive by yellow freezing fog. Somewhere, the Prince of Wales and Mrs Simpson having morning tea in bed.
God Save the King.
But God help the rest of us.
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“Brockley, land of my dreams!
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“Well, Goldsmiths was the nearest I
ever had to a musical education. I suppose I wanted to show off a bit.To show that I didn't only strum ,and that I took music seriously Spike
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SLIDE 24 ➤ Harlem Club Band ➤ Spike’s girlfriend was called Lily Gibbs ➤ she lived at 45 Revlon Road, Brockley
with her parents and brother
➤ worked as a typist at a winemerchants in Shaftesbury Avenue
➤ she commuted from Brockley station5 and a half days a week
➤ Saturday weekly dance at St CypriansChurch Hall
➤ first date at The Rivoli, Crofton Park ➤ He would wait for her every eveningat Brockley station ( for the first year) and walk her home
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READING FROM ‘SPIKE’ BY PAULINE SCUDAMORE…
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“That was my first trumpet, girl called
Lily gave it to me. She saved up months to buy it for me. She was my first real love”
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“I still see Lily Dunford, she lives in
Revelon Road, Brockley,and then there’s Ivy Chandler who lives in Breakspears Road, in the same neck
- f the woods, but don't tell their
husbands!
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“To get to work I walked down
Riseldon Road to Brockley Rise and took the workman’s tram, either 35
- r 74 to New Cross’
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➤ Spike joined the army on 2nd
June 1940
➤ ‘to fight for Lewisham’ ➤ stationed at Bexhill ➤ served in North Africa and
Salerno, Italy
➤ memories made famous in his
diaries, ‘Hitler, my part in his Downfall.’
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“Me from Brockley standing where
Agrippa stood; it was as absurd as Agrippa queuing for fish in Catford’
- Spike, on visiting the colosseum in Rome, following battle fatigue
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“I have travelled extensively in
Lewisham, Catford and Brockley, but somehow never Austria, the trams didn't go that far’
- while on a charabong trip to Austria
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“Looks just like Catford”.
Fighting in the North Africa campaign he and his wartime mates visit ancient Carthage. SLIDE 37
- ut-patient treatment at Lewisham hospital for back pain
apparently caused by
- verdoing weightlifting at Ladywell Recreation Track in an
effort to impress the women working at Catford Labour Exchange after World War Two, Milligan moved in with his parents for a while at 3 Leathwell Road, Deptford, before leaving South London and finding fame through the Goon Show on radio.
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SPIKE’S LASTING CONNECTIONS …
➤ Spike continued to speak of his time in South East London. ➤ patron of Lewisham Council Quality Homes Awards ➤ patron of Lewisham environment Trust, supported the
planting of new trees in the borough 1980s/90s
➤ Spike planted a tree which was marked with a plaque ➤ patron of Lewisham Theatre Jazz Festival 1980s
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