Wednesday 8 May 2002 - Something is not quite right in Prebend Gardens, a pretty tree-lined street of Victorian villas in a quiet corner of Chiswick, west London. Well-heeled residents are going about their everyday business: high-fliers jump on City-bound trains while the BBC crowd heads for television centre and the acting types wait for the phone to ring. Chris, the florist, sets up his stall at the tube station as normal and the sportifs arrive at the gym. But something is missing.
For the best part of 30 years this middle-class street has also been home to an eccentric who used to live in her car. Anne Naysmith, a former concert pianist who fell on hard times, was the village character, accepted and even loved by many but despised by a few who feared her scruffy quarters might blight the value of their £500,000-plus houses. Two months ago, amid tears and recriminations, the car was finally towed away.
Wednesday 11 February 2015 - A former concert pianist who for years lived in a battered old car on a west London street after falling on hard times has been killed in a road accident.
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