Eel Pie Island Hotel & Dancehall  /  L'Auberge

Eel Pie Hotel  L'Auberge

"And who's going to be the one, to say it was no good what we done?"

people

    contacts and memories - (updated Jun 2008)
whatever happened to? - (updated Nov 2007)
Emanuel

pictures  

    Eel Pie Hotel up to 1964
people 1964-65 (i)
people 1964-65 (ii)
people 1969-71 (i)
people 1969-71 (ii)
people 1969-71 (iii)
people 1969-71 (iv)
Eel Pie Hotel 1969-1971
Eel Pie Hotel after 1971
L'Auberge Cafe, Richmond, Surrey
Richmond & Twickenham 1968-1972

music  

    Brian Green & His New Orleans Stompers - Brian Green
Eel Pie Gigs 1969 - lit by Mass Spectrometer Light Show
Eel Pie Memories - from Comstock Lode No 7 - John Platt
The Grove Jazz Band / Eel Pie - John Lamond
Let's Swim To Eel Pie Island - John Joyce
mementos 1955-1971
The Start of the Eel Pie Jazz Club - John Winstone

words

    Eel Pie Dharma - Chris Faiers
The Education of Desire (extracts) - Cliff Harper
Met OJ on Eel Pie '69 - Weed
newspaper article (1971)
Eel Pie and Arthur. Inoculation against evil influences? - Leslie T Wilkins

media

    clip from the film "Fumo Di Londra" (1966) - (no sound)
clip from the film "Fumo Di Londra" (1966) - shorter clip + sound
"Who Needs Eel Pie" (Rank, "Look at Life" series, 1967)
documentary on the Commune (BBC2 TV, 1970) (Open University)
"Eel Pie Island Hotel" - Radio 4 (2007) - (check file-sharing networks)

links

    1960's Richmond - L'Auberge, Crown, Eel Pie - photos + contact pages
Arthur Chisnall - obituary - The Independent  +  a follow-up
Arthur Chisnall - obituary - The Surrey Comet
The Eel Pie Book - blog re compiling a book on Eel Pie Island
The Eel Pie Club - preserving and continue the local R&B heritage
Eel Pie Island - Wikipedia page
Mystery Jets - continuing the Eel Pie musical heritage [needs 1024x768]
Newsgroup posts - interesting threads on Eel Pie Island, old & current
Richmond Riverside - panning views of north and south banks of Eel Pie
Sunday Times article - Richard Johnson
Time Out - Peter Watts
Twickenham Museum - article on the history & music of Eel Pie Island


map of Eel Pie Island by Cathy Horton 1992
Eel Pie Island (1992)


Weed's home page

thanks for inspiration to Canadian Chris, Dave King & Brenda O'Connell
thanks for Eel Pie map, drawn by Cathy Horton
quote from "I'll Try For The Sun" (Donovan Leitch)
comments & contributions to weed@wussu.com
revised 31 October 2008
URL http://www.eelpie.org/index.htm