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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on June 18, 2009, 08:10:00 AM
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I just hear this on the Today programme, I think that it was about a fishing book....
"Lawrence of Arabia was partly shot here" eeek:
I thought that he dies from injuries received in a motorcycling accident, but having said that where did 'they' take him to be completely shot?
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I just hear this on the Today programme, I think that it was about a fishing book....
"Lawrence of Arabia was partly shot here" eeek:
I thought that he dies from injuries received in a motorcycling accident, but having said that where did 'they' take him to be completely shot?
Are you certain it was "shot" that they said?
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rubschin: Umm you could have a point DS
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They are/were talking about shooting the film "Lawrence of Arabia".
I know the man whose father sold him the motor bike on which he got killed and used to service it and sell T.E. Petrol for it.
By the way Lawrence was not his real name. Nor was it O'Toole.
Born at Gorphwysfa in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales. His Anglo-Irish father, Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman, who in 1914 inherited the title of seventh Baronet of Westmeath in Ireland, had abandoned his wife Edith for his daughters' governess Sarah Junner (born illegitimately of a father named Lawrence, and who styled herself 'Miss Lawrence' in the Chapman household). The couple did not marry.
Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner had five illegitimate sons, of whom Thomas Edward was the second eldest. The family lived at 2 Polstead Road (now marked with a blue plaque) in Oxford, under the names of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence. Thomas Edward (known in the family as "Ned") attended the City of Oxford High School for Boys, where one of the four houses was later named "Lawrence" in his honour; the school closed in 1966.
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"Lawrence of Arabia was partly shot here" eeek:
Blank round? whistle: