Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A Pub has been named The Peter Cushing in tribute to the Hammer House of horror actor
in Whitstable, Kent., Cushing, retired there until his death in 1994 aged 81.
JD Wetherspoon spokesman Eddie Gershon said: "Peter had strong links with the town and his name stood out when we wanted to name our pub."
A fitting tribute to a much underrated actor and amateur artist. I think he had a role in Star Wars as well but not ever seen a Star Wars film I don't know much about it.
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Jan Higgins
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A very fitting tribute to an excellent actor.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes he was a great guy. The backbone of standard British cinema fare for a long time. He was of the rushing about barnstorming school of acting and we relied on him with some comfort to rid us of ghostly ghouls, vapid vampires and all such ilk. That nasty Christopher Lee got his comeuppance many a time at the hands of nice man Peter Cushing. I used to leave the cinema feeling I could sleep safely in my bed after watching him.
Ive never been to Whitstable.
Brian Dixon
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if they have named a pub after him i wonder if they will name a beer after him.ie,vampire slayer or somthing simular.
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I used to play in Whitstable based band The Trouser Trumpets (there's a self-imposed super-injunction on my reasons for leaving it
). The ukelele player was Jelly Jim, lead singer of the Jellybottys who wrote the cult hit "Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable" which was made famous internationally after being sung by Alan Davies on QI - he learned it from his student days living in Whitstable.
http://www.myspace.com/jellybottys
Peter Cushing was so well loved in Whitstable that all the locals protected him from the media and it's not public knowledge to this day where he lived and where he is buried - if at all
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Ray
A recent tv prog delved into PC's life showing his house,his favourite tea room and even where he sat plus a number of his watercolours. I think it was around the time that a private collector in Whitstable opened a Cushing museum in Whitstable.
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Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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One of our real british actors its nice they have named the pub in his name, i'm sure he would approve.
O dear PaulB will have to take you on a trip to Whitstable
have not been there myself since I was a child.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A great place for oysters (a bit pricey), I do like the beach though, with all the oyster shells scattered on the shore.
That's how Chelsea got it's name, (Shellsea, Chelsey) Londoners were known as 'Oystermen' due to their diet, that's my useless information for today
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i thought that most of the population of whitstable nowadays were londoners.
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Only at weekends! I had a pint in the Royal Naval Reserve pub Monday lunchtime, definitely all locals - you could tell by the way they fell off their stools and only 12.30.
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Lovely post there Jacqui, loved reading all about that. Sounds like a kind of place I must visit. Will hope to get there now that I hear all this in the next couple of months. Will aim to do that with the camera.
I used to like all those programmes a few years ago, they used to do more somehow when I lived in London all about early days on the Thames and Thames estuary..lightermen, oystermen etc etc
Alec Sheldon
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Nice post Jacqui. It has just jogged my memory when you mentioned your dad, we corresponded on the previous web site a few years ago about the sand boats that your dad worked on on the Thames many years ago. Priors was the name of the company I believe.
Keith Sansum1
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lovely place
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Ive been there quite a few times at the oyster festival great place.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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All this talk of oysters has made me hanker after my home country, Galway in particular where the oyster festival is an absolute must. I think from memory that it's held in August.
Enjoyed reading your post about Whitstable Jacqui, its a beautiful place, I have enjoyed many an evening there in their wonderful fish restaurants and their oysters are soooo yummy
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Yes Jacqui will certainly do that and thank you for the post, can remember small thinks about the place but it was a long time ago.But will take that trip down there in the near future.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes both my wife and myself like it there,we was there just before I had my leg done,and will be going back soon.
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I remember going to Cork in the distant past and sampling their excellent oysters with a pint or three of porter
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Blimey Marek, not seen Star Wars....not many around like you! Peter Cushing did indeed have a small role in the first one (of the original trilogy, no 4 in the series).
Well worth watching Marek but give the 3 prequals a miss and start with the original, no 4 in the series, watch the following two.