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- Neal White
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- Part 1
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- Born and raised
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- Near 'A town called Malice' (The Jam, 1982)
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- 2 miles from the author JG Ballard, who said he would have tea with my older brother. My brother was too afraid to go, age 17, 1980
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- From the place named in the first chapter of HG Wells 1898 book 'The War of the Worlds', but not Shepperton the town of residence of the above mentioned author
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- Under the flight path of Concorde, whose maiden flight to Paris in 1978 was inconvenienced on landing in Paris by my best school friends' dad, who allegedly fitted the passenger door, badly
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- Along the flight corridor of Concorde from Heathrow Airport, also the locality to interesting parties, early sexual encounters, drug dealers and site of action for the characters of the above mentioned authors work - 'Crash' (1973)
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- A place situated only a couple of miles from Shepperton Studios, which was not used to film the Kronenberg adaptation of JG Ballards film 'Crash'
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- In the place where an invasion might have taken place. if it were not as announced Grover's Mill, New Jersey, on the Radio in Orson Welles' 1938 adaptation of the 'War of the Worlds', causing mass panic and evacuation of some areas of US. Arguably the first successful media intervention ....
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