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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Narrow Street | | | |  Narrow Street: Encyclopedia II - Narrow Street - Historic buildingsA number of historic buildings remain, including The Grapes public house, immortalised as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters in Charles Dickens' work, Our Mutual Friend. Built in 1720, the pub is now a listed building and backs onto the Thames waterfront.
Next to the Grapes is a rare example of an early Georgian brick terrace. (Early Georgian houses can be distinguished from late ones in the way that th ...
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| | | | Narrow Street: Encyclopedia II - Limehouse - History From its earliest days, Limehouse, like neighbouring Wapping, has followed the sea. This was one of London's most important ports from late medieval times, with extensive docks and wharves, including the enclosed Limehouse Basin.
Limehouse Basin was actually opened in 1820 as the Regent's Canal Dock. It was an important connection between the Thames and the British canal system where cargoes could be transferred from larger ships to the shallow-draught canal boats. This mix of vessels can still be seen in the basin, canal narrow boats rub ...
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| | | | Narrow Street: Encyclopedia II - Ian McKellen - Youth and early career McKellen was born in Burnley, Lancashire, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, and has indicated that this had some impact on him. In an interview with The Advocate magazine (December 25, 2001), when an interviewer remarked that he seemed quite calm in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack, he said: "Well, darling, you forget — I slept under a steel plate [during the Battle of Britain] until I was four years old." (Quotes in this article a ...
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| | | | Narrow Street: Encyclopedia II - Ian McKellen - First major stage roles The role that made McKellen famous was his 1969 portrayal of King Edward II of England in the Prospect Theatre Company's touring production of Marlowe's Edward II. The production was controversial for its explicit torture scenes and implicit homosexuality. He later reprised the role for the BBC. In 1972, he founded the Actors' Company with his friend Edward Petherbridge, and this was the beginning of his reputation as a spokesman for actors and the British theatre in general. Between 1974 and 1978, he enhanced his reputation with lead ...
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| | | | Narrow Street: Encyclopedia II - Ian McKellen - Award-winning successes McKellen starred on Broadway in Bent, a play about gay men in Nazi death camps, starting in 1979. Despite his role in this ground-breaking play, which brought to public view for the first time in a widespread way the persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany, McKellen was not yet out publicly. At first, he was unsure whether he dared to take the role. "As impressed as I was by it, I thought 'My God! Do I dare be in this?' And Se ...
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| | | | Narrow Street: Encyclopedia II - Ian McKellen - Work for gay rights While McKellen was always out to his co-actors, his public persona was another matter. It was not until 1988 that he came out to the general public. A controversial amendment was under consideration in the United Kingdom Parliament: Section 28 of the Local Government Bill proposed to prohibit local authorities from promoting homosexuality 'as a kind of pretended family relationship'. The drafting was open to several interpretations and the actual impact of the amendment was uncertain. McKellen became active in fighting the proposed law, and ...
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