Varney was born in Canning Town, London <!--Essex is correct. Canning Town became part of London in 1965-->, to Sidney Thomas ...and for publicity purposes he was photographed making the first withdrawal from the machine on Tuesday 27 June 1967.<ref>{{cite news |last=Milligan |first=

| birth_place = [[w:Danbury, Essex|Danbury]], Essex, England, United Kingdom ...here he studied fine art. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in 1966.<ref name="autogenerated1" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http:/

...his own semi-professional dance-band. He also worked as a song-plugger for Essex Music Publishers. Wishing to return to the stage full-time he joined the Pr ...]'' (1944). His other radio series included ''Top Ten'' (1944) and ''Music from the Movies'' (1946).<ref name="Gifford"/>

...f the four writer-performers in the comedy revue ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy, and with a member of that team, ...a Francis (née Hughes), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician from Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/13

| birth_place = [[Forest Gate|Forest Gate]], [[Essex|Essex]] (now in London), [[England|England]] Neagle was born in [[Forest Gate]], [[Essex]], daughter of Florence Neagle and her husband, Herbert William Robertson,

...d from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecam ...in Boy|Bevin Boy]] and worked as a coal miner in [[Accrington|Accrington]] from May 1944 onwards.