Cultural References
In most series of the comedy show Hancock's Half Hour, Tony Hancock lived in the fictional road Railway Cuttings, in fictional East Cheam. According to the census of 1841, East Cheam, North Cheam, Garden Green, Cheam Common. So officially East Cheam did exist in name and was not fictional.
British stand-up comedian and actor Eddie Izzard mentions Cheam in the 'Death Star Canteen' act of his 2000 tour Circle, using it jokingly as the birthplace of Darth Vader: "... Sir Lord Vader? Sir Lord Vader of Cheam?"
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