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2 unusual facts about Crouch End


Joy Gardner

Joy Gardner was a 40-year-old African-Caribbean community mother and illegal immigrant from Jamaica who was killed during a struggle with the police at her home in Crouch End, London on 28 July 1993.

Redza Piyadasa

Afterwards, he followed an art study at the Hornsey College of Art in Crouch End, London, on the basis of a scholarship of the Malaysian government.


Arabella Weir

When Tennant first moved to London in the early 1990s, he lodged with Weir at her house in Crouch End for five years; they had met on the set of the BBC TV series Takin' Over the Asylum.

Marilyn Collins

She has several installations on display in public gardens in the UK, a notable example being the Spriggan set in the Parkland Walk, which is reputed to have inspired Stephen King to write the short story Crouch End.


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