Eel Pie Island is only accessible by boat or footbridge - a landing may be used for deliveries or rubbish removal

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Eel Pie island (earlier name - Twickenham Ait) is an island in the River Thames at Twickenham. It can only be reached by footbridge and has art studios, about 50 houses, small businesses, the Twickenham Rowing Club and the Richmond Yacht Club. The island was home to the Eel Pie Hotel which hosted ballroom dancing in the 1920s am 30s and in the 1950s and 1960s was famous for rock and R&B groups such as The Rolling Stones, The Who and Pink Floyd. The Hotel building was destroyed by fire in 1971.

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Location: Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Photo credit: © Eden Breitz / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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