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Accommodation of a room in a shared house
A bedsit, bedsitter, or bed-sitting room is a form of accommodation common in some parts of the United Kingdom which consists of a single room per occupant
Bedsit
2005 compilation album by Soft Cell
The Bedsit Tapes is a compilation of songs recorded by the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell before their record contract with Some Bizzare Records. The
The_Bedsit_Tapes
Season of television series
Brother Bedsit, into which Michelle and Emma were sent, unknown to the other housemates, when "evicted" from the house. Whilst in the Bedsit, they had
Big Brother (British TV series) series 5
Big_Brother_(British_TV_series)_series_5
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star is an autobiography written by Tracey Thorn, first published in February 2013. The book received
Bedsit_Disco_Queen
British unsolved death (1965–2003)
unnoticed for more than two years as her corpse lay undiscovered at her bedsit in north London. Prior to her death, she had cut off nearly all contact
Joyce_Vincent
British murderer and necrophile
apart in 1987, in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in what became known as the Bedsit murders. The killer's DNA had been known since a cold case review in 2007
David_Fuller
Norwegian electronic duo
debut album Bedsit Theories in 1998. Frost started as a project of Aggie Peterson and DJ Rune Lindbæk. They released their debut album Bedsit Theories in
Frost_(Norwegian_band)
Process of renovating or making additions to one's home
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Home_improvement
British TV sitcom (1965–1966)
aired for two series. Hancock played Sheila Ross, a typist who lives in a bedsit and wishes for more in life. In the first series, Dilys Laye played her
The_Bed-Sit_Girl
Cambodian communist leader (1925–1998)
Indochinese Pavilion, then lodgings on the rue Amyot, and eventually a bedsit on the corner of the rue de Commerce and the rue Letellier. Sâr earned good
Pol_Pot
Season of television series
House also included a secret bedsit, which had previously been used in Big Brother 2004. The Ultimate Big Brother bedsit housed Michelle Bass and Victor
Ultimate_Big_Brother
English musician (1949–2003)
fired after police found "the stub of a cannabis joint in a raid on his bedsit". Palmer's first major break came with the departure of singer Jess Roden
Robert_Palmer
2002–2008 British fraud case
Darwin and his wife, a doctor's receptionist, also ran a business renting bedsits in County Durham with 12 houses. They ran into debt after purchasing two
John Darwin disappearance case
John_Darwin_disappearance_case
Room with large glass windows or walls for exposure to sunlight
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Sunroom
2021 British film by Edgar Wright
another student, is kind to her. Unhappy in the dormitory, she moves into a bedsit owned by the elderly Ms. Collins. That night, Ellie has a vivid dream where
Last_Night_in_Soho
English musical duo
music projects, both Thorn and Watt have written books. Thorn's 2013 memoir Bedsit Disco Queen covers a significant portion of the history of Everything but
Everything_but_the_Girl
British singer (born 1962)
video from the project, entitled "Queen". Virago published Thorn's memoir Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star early in 2013. It
Tracey_Thorn
Vertical structure, usually solid, that defines and sometimes protects an area
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Wall
English actor (born 1963)
in Surrey, and has also written for the screen. His works include Int. Bedsit - Day (2007) and Dead on Time (1999), for which he gained a nomination for
James_Larkin_(actor)
2003 double murder in London, England
Toni-Ann Byfield and Bertram Byfield were murdered by Joel Smith at a bedsit in Kensal Green, London. At the time of her murder, Toni-Ann was formally
Murder of Toni-Ann and Bertram Byfield
Murder_of_Toni-Ann_and_Bertram_Byfield
British rock band
original Trident deal and wages. They were all living in relative poverty in bedsits, and Deacon was refused money for a deposit on a house. EMI contacted lawyer
Queen_(band)
English synthpop duo
loneliness and lifestyle of a young man having recently left home to live in a bedsit while partying hard. "Bedsitter" reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart in
Soft_Cell
British serial killer
1986, when he similarly attacked 74-year-old William Downes in a Stockwell bedsit. The final victim was Florence Tisdall, an 83-year-old widow who lived on
Kenneth_Erskine
1971 single by Russell Morris
inspired by a photo of his then-wife which he stuck up on the wall in bedsit in London while trying for UK success. The song is set in the key of Dm
Sweet,_Sweet_Love
Scottish Surrealist performance artist
organise a Surrealist group in England. At the time Legge was living in a bedsit in Earl's Court in central London. Gascoyne made arrangements to meet Legge
Sheila_Legge
English film director (born 1966)
released in 2011, about Joyce Carol Vincent, who died in her North London bedsit in 2003, but was not discovered until 2006. Her older brother is the music
Carol_Morley
Construction that bridges a large vertical distance with steps
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Stairs
1981 British TV series or programme
little luck with men. At the end of the series, Josie and Geoffrey get a bedsit together. The second series begins six months after Gemma told Danny to
Solo_(TV_series)
1985 single by the Dream Academy
Academy". SongFacts.com. Simpson, Dave (8 April 2024). "'I wrote it in a bedsit on Nick Drake's guitar': how the Dream Academy made Life in a Northern Town"
Life_in_a_Northern_Town
1963 British film by Michael Winner
taken from the postcode W11. In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter
West_11
British band
1986 - Singersroom.com". Simpson, Dave (8 April 2024). "'I wrote it in a bedsit on Nick Drake's guitar': how the Dream Academy made Life in a Northern Town"
The_Dream_Academy
1956 British TV series or programme
David Drummond play Abigail and Roger, an engaged couple living in London bedsits. The series is thought to no longer exist.[citation needed] Julie Webb
Abigail_and_Roger
Densely populated housing development
community. Brownstone: a New York City term for a rowhouse: see rowhouse. Bedsit: a British expression (short for bed-sitting room) for a single-roomed dwelling
Multifamily_residential
2002 studio album by Soft Cell
chronology This Last Night in Sodom (1984) Cruelty Without Beauty (2002) The Bedsit Tapes (2005) Singles from Cruelty Without Beauty "Monoculture" b/w "Dancing
Cruelty_Without_Beauty
English former footballer and pundit (born 1978)
Middlesbrough's training ground, spending a good part of his school holidays in a bedsit just to be there. London team West Ham United was to be his footballing
Rio_Ferdinand
Systems for conveying fluids
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Plumbing
English actress (born 1941)
Take Three Girls, which follows the lives of three young women who share a bedsit in West Kensington. In 1974, she featured in the final series of Special
Susan_Jameson
British singer (born 1957)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Pretenders. Thorn, Tracey (January 2014). Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star. Virago. ISBN 978-1-84408-868-3
Siouxsie_Sioux
1986 British TV series or programme
leave his home, but continue paying the mortgage on it, while living in a bedsit. Although John's wife is manipulative and John can be considered the wronged
Dear_John_(British_TV_series)
Pub in London, England
1970 hit "Nothing Rhymed" was shot here, as he was living close by in a bedsit when he wrote the song. The pub features briefly in an episode of Only Fools
Prospect_of_Whitby
1974 British comedy film by John Robins
"Great cast, shame about the script ... The material is thinner than a bedsit wall." Johnson, Tom; Del Vecchio, Deborah (1996). Hammer Films: An Exhaustive
Man_About_the_House_(film)
Japanese actress (born 1971)
account for her, handed her a cheque book and told her to find a flat or a bedsit for herself to live in. Mori said that being on her own at such a young
Naoko_Mori
2003 American film
and removing camera equipment he previously has concealed in the actor's bedsit without his knowledge. With contemptible satisfaction, he unravels his entire
Dot_the_i
British television series
22 September 2022 (2022-09-22) 3.76 Helen and James begin married life in the bedsit in the Skeldale House attic, but although happy together they have to contend
All Creatures Great and Small (2020 TV series)
All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_(2020_TV_series)
Musical artist
Tension on the Greek label Lazy Dog and relocated to New Zealand. Beat Bedsit Records issued Room Service, a CD with new bedroom recordings, in 2001.
Patrik_Fitzgerald
British victim of drugs overdose
discoloured body as she was discovered clutching a syringe inside a rented bedsit approximately two days after her death. Her death and the publication of
Rachel_Whitear
1963–65 serial child killings in England
the care of the local authority. Maureen moved from Underwood Court to a bedsit in another district and found work in a department store. Subjected to whispering
Moors_murders
1972 British film by Peter Collinson
(Peter) who doesn't give her a second look. She ends up living in a grubby bedsit before finding a job at a fashionable boutique (run by Jimmy Lindsay), and
Straight On till Morning (film)
Straight_On_till_Morning_(film)
English reggae/pop band
or ending, their claim for unemployment benefits. It was recorded in a bedsit in Birmingham and produced by Bob Lamb. Norman Hassan remarked of the recording:
UB40
South African writer and journalist (1944–1983)
the Forsyth thriller found along with the arms cache in Angela Otaola's bedsit was a perfect fit. Derogatory yet with just a hint of admiration for the
Peter_Niesewand
English actor (born 1964)
Intervention Harry III Jr. Both Moussa Short film A Girl and a Gun Johnny Int. Bedsit – Day Pete Short film 2008 Still Waters Burn Jack Price 2009 Morris: A Life
Ian_Hart
(3CD re-release of the 1982 boxset with additional material) 2005 – The Bedsit Tapes (Some Bizzare) (Recorded in 1978–1980) 2006 – Demo Non Stop (Some
Soft_Cell_discography
British rock band
in London, the two renewed their friendship, and Anderson moved into a bedsit in Chelsea with Evan. Hammond became the subject of several songs, beginning
Jethro_Tull_(band)
Tennison struggles to connect him directly to the crime scene: a prostitute's bedsit. A second murder victim is discovered with similar injuries. The episode
List of Prime Suspect (British TV series) episodes
List_of_Prime_Suspect_(British_TV_series)_episodes
2002 film by Michael Dowse
will have a strange resonance for anyone who lived through the Thatcherite bedsit stinkfest that was pre-Acid House Britain." Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal
FUBAR_(film)
1936 novel by George Orwell
pettyminded and deeply neurotic. Comstock lives without luxuries in a bedsit in London, which he affords by working in a small bookshop owned by a Scot
Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying
Freestanding structure preventing movement across a boundary
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Fence
1976 studio album by Chris Spedding
indicated "New Girl in the Neighbourhood" "School Days" "Sweet Disposition" "Bedsit Girl" "Guitar Jamboree" "Jump in My Car" (Ted Mulry) "Hungry Man" "Motor
Chris_Spedding_(album)
Nineteenth-century medication
would be the description of the deceased's body being found in a flat or bedsit littered with empty Chlorodyne bottles. Over the decades of the twentieth
Chlorodyne
1988 studio album by Everything but the Girl
its quality, but it later received critical acclaim. In her autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen Thorn recalls from the recording process: I am writing songs
Idlewild (Everything but the Girl album)
Idlewild_(Everything_but_the_Girl_album)
1980 single by UB40
The band were unable to afford to record in a studio, so they used Lamb's bedsit in Moseley to record the entire Signing Off album. "King" was released as
King_(UB40_song)
2022 studio album by Soft Cell
55:04 Label BMG Producers Soft Cell Philip Larsen Soft Cell chronology The Bedsit Tapes (2005) *Happiness Not Included (2022) Danceteria (2026) Singles from
Happiness_Not_Included
Fictional character from Neighbours
leads him to resent Danny even more and Max soon moves out to live in a bedsit. A further blow comes when Shane is injured in a car accident, ending his
Max_Ramsay
Distinguishable space within a building or other structure
from an illness. In smaller homes, most rooms were multi-purpose. In a bedsit, communal apartment, or studio apartment, a single main room may serve most
Room
locomotives or Star Trek. He is also divorced and is shown to reside in a bedsit. Restless Spirit – A strip about a ghost who tries to get some sleep, but
List_of_Viz_comic_strips
Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)
lecturer at the University of Warwick in Coventry, living at first in a rented bedsit in Leamington Spa with two cats and 300 tadpoles. In 1968 she was married
Germaine_Greer
British television comedy series
sketches interspersed with links filmed in what was purportedly Adam and Joe's bedsit, but was actually a shared "performance space" above a branch of The Body
The_Adam_and_Joe_Show
48-year-old Lavelle, an Irishman living in Willesden, left a bar close to his bedsit in Meyrick Road at nighttime on 4 January 2000 and was assaulted. A friend
List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (2000s)
List_of_unsolved_murders_in_the_United_Kingdom_(2000s)
English journalist and television presenter (1961–1999)
May 2000 and charged with Dando's murder on 28 May. A search of George's bedsit had uncovered over 4,000 photographs of hundreds of women covertly taken
Jill_Dando
Street in City of Westminster, England
Pearsall conceived and created the London A to Z map while living in a bedsit in Horseferry Road. The road takes its name from the ferry which existed
Horseferry_Road
English musician (born 1967)
gold. Much of the late 1980s found Gallagher unemployed and living in a bedsit, occupying his time by using recreational drugs, writing songs, and playing
Noel_Gallagher
British escort and convicted murderer (1926–1955)
son Andy, aged 10 at the time of her execution, took his own life in a bedsit in 1982, shortly after desecrating her grave. The trial judge, Sir Cecil
Ruth_Ellis
1980 EP by Soft Cell
three songs from the EP also appear on the rarities/bootleg compilation The Bedsit Tapes. The Mutant Moments EP received an official rerelease in May 2020
Mutant_Moments
1996 single by Babybird
the conventional paean to physical perfection on its arse, Sheffield's bedsit balladeer Steve Jones came up trumps with this tale of a (male) model whose
You're_Gorgeous
British serial rapist
press as the Cambridge Rapist. He attacked women after breaking into their bedsits and flats. He was active between October 1974 and April 1975, and was also
Peter_Samuel_Cook
Scottish author (1918–2006)
maternal grandparents in Scotland. Between 1955 and 1965 she lived in a bedsit at 13 Baldwin Crescent, Camberwell, south-east London. After living in New
Muriel_Spark
Daughter of 5th Baron Harlech, girlfriend of Eric Clapton
some support from Narcotics Anonymous. Her final address from March was a bedsit in Aylesbury Road, Boscombe, an area then notorious for drug dealing. Shortly
Alice_Ormsby-Gore
British cabaret punk band
Ambitions 1999) "The Last Post" track on It Don't Come Right to Me CD (Beat Bedsit 2000) "Can't Cheat Karma" track on Angry Songs and Bitter Words CD (Ruptured
Bus_Station_Loonies
Self-contained housing unit occupying part of a building
A bedsit is a UK variant on single room accommodation: a bed-sitting room, probably without cooking facilities, with a shared bathroom. A bedsit is not
Apartment
1965 British spy film directed by Sidney J. Furie
lifestyle, Palmer is a working-class Londoner who lives in a Notting Hill bedsit and has to put up with red tape and interdepartmental rivalries. The action
The_Ipcress_File_(film)
1981 studio album by Marine Girls
guitar and vocals Jane Fox – bass Allmusic review Thorn, Tracey (2013). Bedsit Disco Queen. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-40551-398-2. Stewart
Beach_Party_(album)
British TV soap (1969–1970)
Victorian seaside houses that had been converted into a series of flats and bedsits. It was first broadcast on 4 April 1969, but cancelled just under a year
Castle_Haven_(TV_series)
Men's prison in Thamesmead, London, England
Retrieved 1 February 2021. Aspden, Kester (6 December 2019). "The making of a bedsit Nazi: who was the man who killed Jo Cox?". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November
HM_Prison_Belmarsh
English serial killer (1941–1995)
the council, many of the upper floor rooms were initially converted into bedsits to supplement the household income. To maintain a degree of privacy for
Fred_West
1985 single by RAH Band
Norwegian electronic duo Frost covered the song for their debut album, Bedsit Theories. It peaked at No. 13 on the VG-lista chart. In 2022, West End singer
Clouds_Across_the_Moon
1971 song by Crazy Horse
Sophisti-pop". In Between Drafts. Retrieved October 12, 2024. Tracey Thorn, Bedsit Disco Queen, p.204 "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles". Music & Media. Vol. 5, no
I_Don't_Want_to_Talk_About_It
set in the drawing room of an Edwardian house in Dublin which is now a bedsit, inhabited by fifty-something, Tommy. He rents the room from his Uncle Maurice
The_Night_Alive
Scottish female impersonator (1944–2023)
A police officer expressed concern that the young Logan was sharing a bedsit and a bed with a 28-year-old man. Logan's father replied, "Well that’s the
George_Logan_(performer)
British reality television hoax series
genre of television programme". Its title is a portmanteau of the words "bedsit"—a British term referring to a form of rented accommodation consisting of
Bedsitcom
English actor
Cinderella Story 1998 Captain Laurent 24 Hour Party People 2002 Farmer Int. Bedsit- Day 2007 Dan Short film A Bunch of Amateurs 2008 Frank Dobbins Film selected
Peter_Gunn_(actor)
British musician (1948–1974)
telephone into Drake's life, Boyd organised and paid for a ground floor bedsit in Belsize Park, Camden. On 5 August 1969, Drake pre-recorded four songs
Nick_Drake
Fictional character from Brookside
wife Mandy, who refused to take pity on him, but agreed to meet him at his bedsit. Upon seeing the squalor he had to live in and finding he had been burgled
Trevor_Jordache
English television presenter and journalist (born 1963)
Foodtribe (replacing JM's Unemployment Tube) frequently using a small, bedsit-like kitchen setup called "The Bug-out Bunker". The channel has since been
James_May
UK sci-fi comedy radio series, 1978–2018
"came up with various ideas and various permutations of people living in bedsits and this sort of thing" as this "seemed to be what most situation comedies
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)
Welsh screenwriter and television producer (born 1963)
the HIV/AIDS crisis during the 1980s, focusing on the men "living in the bedsits", as opposed to films such as Pride, which focused on gay activists. Davies
Russell_T_Davies
Irish novelist (1939–2012)
Binchy's father died in 1971, she sold the family house and moved to a bedsit in Dublin. Her parents were Catholics, and Binchy attended a convent school
Maeve_Binchy
2006 British made-for-television docudrama film
that the trial is over. By 1971, Maureen is living alone in a Manchester bedsit while David has served a prison sentence for wounding a man who provoked
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
See_No_Evil:_The_Moors_Murders
British TV sitcom (1979–1992)
Mrs H. is a somewhat waspish and prim landlady who lets a West Hampstead bedsit to Shelley and Fran in series one and two. She has a son named Colin, and
Shelley_(TV_series)
1960 photograph of Che Guevara
several versions of the image. It is the photograph that adorns student bedsits across the world. The famed black and white portrait of Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Guerrillero_Heroico
2004 British TV drama film
and, cutting contact with his friends completely, he moves into a rundown bedsit. His situation gets worse still when (now with unkempt hair, matted beard
Dirty_Filthy_Love
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Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Striving for Beauty
Surname or Lastname
English and northern Irish
English and northern Irish : variant of Hyslop.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Mother of Gods
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Goddess Saraswati
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, British, German, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Muslim
Peace; Beautiful
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Servant of the One who Raises; Elevates (Intellect; Esteem)
Female
Ukrainian
, defender of man.
Male
German
Pet form of German Ludwig, LUTZ means "famous warrior."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
The Blue Jewel; Shining Brightly
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Christian, Jamaican
Female Version of Abraham; Father of Many; Mother of Grace; From Abbie and Brianna
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BEDSIT
n.
A recess in a room for a bed.