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    Friar Park is a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames, England, construction began in 1889 and was completed in 1895. It was built for lawyer...
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    two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his home, Friar Park. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered according to...
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  • to Frank Crisp, a nineteenth-century lawyer and the original owner of Friar Park – the Victorian Gothic residence in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, that...
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  • inspiration for "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" came from inscriptions at his Friar Park home, a legacy of the property's original owner, the eccentric Victorian...
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    began a period of more optimistic content in Harrison's music. At their Friar Park home in December 1999, when she overpowered a knife-wielding intruder...
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    Friar Park is a residential area of Wednesbury, West Midlands, England. It is also a ward of Sandwell Council. Originally in the borough of West Bromwich...
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  • considered All Things Must Pass to be his first solo album. I went to George's Friar Park ... and he said, "I have a few ditties for you to hear." It was endless...
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    and Gardens News, 17(3) Cardinal.: Friar Park: A Pictorial History. Campfire Publishing, 2014 Cardinal.: Friar Park: 1919 Estate Auction Catalogue. Campfire...
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    1970, a month before the Beatles' break-up, Boyd moved with Harrison to Friar Park, a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames. By this point, Harrison's...
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    ideator of Friar Park. The "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)" composed by the former Beatle George Harrison, who purchased Friar Park from Sir...
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    between this seat and West Bromwich West, resulting in the loss of the Friar Park and Hateley Heath wards in exchange for the Oldbury and Tividale wards...
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  • solo album was to begin in January or February at his new home studio at Friar Park, but any such plan was undone by Harrison's commitment to the Bangladesh...
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  • "Ding Dong" from engravings he found at his nineteenth-century home, Friar Park, in Oxfordshire – a legacy of its eccentric founder, Frank Crisp. The...
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    Friar Tuck is one of the Merry Men, the band of heroic outlaws in the folklore of Robin Hood. The figure of the jovial friar was common in the May Games...
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    classical music. He grew up with his parents in Henley-on-Thames, in Friar Park, the estate on which his father had lived since 1970. His mother, Olivia...
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  • couldn't even go into the house. – George Harrison, discussing his return to Friar Park after the 1974 North American tour In its 13 February 1975 issue, Rolling...
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    Old Park Wednesbury South : Hill Top, Ocker Hill (part), Golf Links, Millfields, Harvills Hawthorn Friar Park : Woods & Mesty Croft, Friar Park and The...
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  • costumes. The gnomes of Friar Park are also prominent. The film was shot in and around the grounds of Harrison's home, Friar Park, which Harrison had nicknamed...
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    January 1966, and lived in the house until 1970, when Harrison purchased Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. During 1967, Harrison and Boyd painted...
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    They appointed members to new titles and in the 1880s bought land in Friar Park for a sewerage farm. Under the Reform Act 1832, West Bromwich became part...
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  • "Blow Away" was initially inspired by rain damage to a roof at Harrison's Friar Park estate in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He turned the experience into...
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    Franciscans (redirect from Friar minor)
    Assisi, these orders include three independent orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contemporary male order), orders for nuns such as...
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  • acclaimed All Things Must Pass. Harrison recorded Thirty Three & 1⁄3 at his Friar Park home studio, with production assistance from Tom Scott. Other musicians...
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    Set on You". In January 1987, Harrison began recording the song at his Friar Park home studio, with Jeff Lynne producing and playing bass and keyboards...
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  • Feinstein photo of Harrison taken through a window at his recently purchased Friar Park home, with some of the estate's trees reflected in the glass. Released...
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    Yew Tree Greets Green Hateley Heath Wednesbury Friar Park Woods Estate Mesty Croft Wood Green Old Park Church Hill Brunswick Myvod The Public, West Bromwich...
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  • members of the band. Harrison and Starr recorded the song at Harrison's Friar Park studio between 19 November and 25 November 1980. The lineup was rounded...
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  • Work House studio in London on 3 October 1975 and mixed at Harrison's Friar Park home the following day. A year later this single was reissued on 19 November...
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  • Bros. Returning to the project in November, Harrison was joined in his Friar Park studio in Henley-on-Thames by Ringo Starr, who arrived specifically to...
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  • in Los Angeles, California, and mixed at George Harrison's residence Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, England. Orbison gave his only public rendition of...
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