Blue plaque to Peter Cook
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Blue plaque to Peter Cook
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 10 Nov 2020
Installed on the wall of Kinbrae, Middle Warberry Road, Torquay in 2014. "Peter Cook (1937-1995) Voted one of Britain's greatest comedians and a writer of note was born here November 17th 1937 when the house was called "Shearbridge"". But here's a thing. Harry Thompson's "Biography Of Peter Cook", published in 1997, describes Bythorn in Bronshill Road, which Peter's grandmother had recently bought, as the house where Peter's mother was living when he was born at St Chad's nursing home, and where he spent his early childhood https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RMd6JHis3REC&pg=PT16&lpg=PT16&dq=%22bythorn%22+Peter+Cook+Bronshill&source=bl&ots=pBBxsbqCMf&sig=ACfU3U0Ngsv9iGQHAjYqIMbtNKi90GwXoA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB8PT5gIXtAhWCilwKHfh7AsMQ6AEwAnoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22bythorn%22%20Peter%20Cook%20Bronshill&f=false . Both cannot be right!
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Image Location
Latitude
50.467936
Longitude
-3.507917