Popular Culture
Stanley Kubrick filmed some of the exteriors in his feature 1962 film Lolita, notably "Charlotte Haze's house", in Gerrards Cross.
"The Italian Lesson" sketch in the first episode of the first series of the BBC Television comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus (first broadcast in 1969) includes the line "'Sono Inglese di Gerrard's Cross', I am an Englishman from Gerrard's Cross."
Jethro Tull's song "Journeyman" on their 1978 album Heavy Horses includes the line "Too late to stop for tea at Gerrard's Cross".
Indie band The Hit Parade released their 3rd single "The Sun Shines In Gerrards Cross" in 1986.
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