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The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything
He gave up a place at art college to win a £50 bet with his father, which led him to…
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Mind That Steinway in the Potting Shed
There was a grand piano in the shed. There was a childhood split between Beaconsfield and Beverly Hills, a foxtrot…
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A Big Bean in a Small Can: Forty Years On
In 1986, a computer technician from Port Talbot climbed into a bath of baked beans and stayed there for a…
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There Is No Such Thing as Nothing
A boy who watched beetles cross the grass rather than climb the trees grew into a poet, cartoonist, songwriter and…
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The Third Person
Can dandyism survive the twenty-first century without losing its meaning? This beautifully produced volume by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams…
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Barry Martin (1943-2025)
He spent sixty years making art out of movement — steel rods that crept in and out of their own…
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A Prince Among Goons
In the winter of 1973, the future King came through our doors in pursuit of the three silliest men in…
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Music, Monkeys, and a Moat of Tea
He emptied his grandfather's shed to build an imaginary chocolate-biscuit machine. Forty years on, he is still doing much the…
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The Rakes' Progress
One of them wrote a Reformation rap battle between Luther and Leo X. The other canoed under the Rialto singing…
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Eccentricity in the Blood
In the 1960s, John Blythe recalled growing up in the Eccentric Club founded by his grandfather, Jack Harrison. Half a…
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The Del Boy of the Forties
He played every wide boy, tipster, black-marketeer and fast-talking chancer that the British cinema of the rationed years required —…
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They Turned Out to Be My Friends
A personal recollection of representing The Eccentric Club in Devon by our member Colin Shaddick, who won one of The…
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The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums . The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under…
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Nic Wing (1958-2016)
At twenty-one, he stood about in the grounds of Knebworth House while Trevor Howard, blacked up and in a tutu,…
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Benedict "Ben" le Vay (1953-2022)
He judged the Club's Greatest British Eccentric of the Year award in 2009, and went on insisting to the end…