Annual event since 1983, organised by IWA at Little Venice, London over the early May Bank Holiday weekend, combining a Boat Rally with a trade show, activities and entertainments.
The performance was at the BBC Studios at Maida Vale in London, where it was recorded for a future radio broadcast on 10 September on BBC Radio 3 as part of a wide-ranging festival of Beckett's work in London.
The recording was made for £400 in the living room of Kevin Ayers' Maida Vale home.
A London pub on the Edgware Road was named The Hero of Maida, which in turn gave its name to adjoining districts of London, Maida Hill and later, Maida Vale.
He died at his residence, 29 Upper Hamilton Terrace, Maida Vale, on 30 March 1884, leaving one daughter.
Philip Richard Morris (Devonport 4 December 1836 – 22 April 1902, 92 Clifton Hill, Maida Vale, London) was an English painter of genre and maritime scenes (particularly allegorical ones of rural life), Holman Hunt-influenced religious paintings and (later in his career) portraits.
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China also maintains several other buildings in London: a Defence Section at 25 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, a Commercial Section at 16 Lancaster Gate, Paddington, a Cultural Section at 11 West Heath Road, Hampstead and a Science & Technology Section at 10 Greville Place, Maida Vale.
The show features artist interviews, live sessions recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, BBC archive recordings, and is sometimes recorded from jazz festivals around the world, such as the Cheltenham Jazz Festival in the UK and the Newport Jazz Festival in the USA.
Lab 4 were regularly played on Radio 1 by John Peel who also invited Lab 4 to launch their third album Virus on one of his 'John Peel Session' at Maida Vale.
By 1908 Margaret and Berthe were living at 224 Lauderdale Mansions, a spacious apartment in Maida Vale, which they shared with the prominent anti-vivisectionists, Lizzy Lind af Hageby and Leisa Schartau.
It was merged in 1948 with the Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases (originally called The London Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis), which in turn owed its foundation in 1866 to a German, Julius Althaus.
The Vale Motor Company was set up in 1931 by Pownoll Pellew (later 9th Viscount Exmouth) as a 'gentleman's hobby' in a rented workshop behind the Warrington pub in Maida Vale.