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The document provides a brief overview of notable individuals associated with the Elephant and Castle area in London, including club promoter Jeff Dexter and various artists, actors, and public figures. It highlights their birthdates, backgrounds, and contributions to their respective fields. The information spans several decades, showcasing the area's cultural significance and its influence on various personalities.

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Lion 3

The document provides a brief overview of notable individuals associated with the Elephant and Castle area in London, including club promoter Jeff Dexter and various artists, actors, and public figures. It highlights their birthdates, backgrounds, and contributions to their respective fields. The information spans several decades, showcasing the area's cultural significance and its influence on various personalities.

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club promoter and music producer Jeff Dexter was born 15 August 1946 in Lambeth Hospital and

grew up in Newington Butts, moving to Camberwell Road when he was ten years old.
 In 1956, Austin Osman Spare moved to a flat situated above the loading bay of a
Woolworths store at 56a Walworth Road. Aged 17, in May 1904, he had held his first public
art exhibition in the foyer of the Newington Public Library on the same [Link], Phil
(2011). Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist. London: Strange
Attractor Press. ISBN .
 Charlie Chaplin[75] and Michael Caine, who were born and grew up locally.[76]
 Charlie Mullins OBE, the founder of Pimlico Plumbers, was born 28 October 1952 and
grew up on the Rockingham Estate.
 Footballer Tommy Langley was born in Elephant on 8 February 1958.
 In December 1962, John Major started work at the London Electricity Board.
 Actress and television presenter Lisa Maxwell was born in the area on 24 November 1963,
where she was raised by her single mother and her grandparents.
 Trade Unionist Steve Turner grew up on the now demolished Heygate Estate.[77]
 Irish writer and novelist Darren O'Shaughnessy, who was born in 1972, spent the first six
years of life in Elephant, going to the English Martyrs' RC Primary School from the age of
three.
 Actress Nicola Stapleton was born in Elephant on 9 August 1974, grew up near East Street
and attended Townsend Primary School.
 In 1975, in his mid-twenties, gay American artist and writer Philip Core settled permanently
in London, living in a flat in Elephant and Castle that was painted completely black.
 Rapper Jahaziel was born on 26 July 1976 and was raised in the area.
 In 1979, David Bruce started his first Firkin Brewery brewpub in Elephant and Castle.[78]
 During the 1980s, Mark Ashton lived in a council flat in Claydon House on the Heygate
Estate, which is where he formed with his friend Mike Jackson the group Lesbians and Gays
Support the Miners in 1984.
 Horse racing announcer Mark Johnson attended the then London College of Printing,
receiving a bachelor's degree in television, film, and theatre studies, and a postgraduate
diploma in radio journalism.
 Joy Crookes was born in the Lambeth district of South London on 9 October 1998 and grew
up in the area of Elephant and Castle,[79] where she spent eight years at a Catholic state
primary school.[80]
 In October 2004, Richard Reynolds, a then resident of Perronet House, launched
[Link] as a record of his solo attempts at

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