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Evening Standard
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Cat Olley

Spike Milligan’s ‘home of British comedy’ in Bayswater is on sale for £6.5 million

The property has two Blue Plaques commemorating Spike Milligan and Eri Sykes

(Picture: Beauchamp Estates)

Spike Milligan’s Bayswater pied-à-terre, where some of Britain’s most beloved television shows and characters were created, has gone on the market for £6.5 million.

The Arts and Crafts-inspired townhouse on Orme Court also served as the headquarters of Associated London Scripts, the UK’s first co-operative for comedy writers, which Milligan founded with fellow television and radio heroes Eric Sykes, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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