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Wendy Cope on Erith: 'A place few people have heard of and even fewer can pronounce'

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The poet traces her love of Gilbert and Sullivan to amateur operatic productions at the theatre in the town

I was born in Erith, Kent, a place few people have heard of and even fewer can pronounce – the first syllable rhymes with beer, not with berry. The late comedian Linda Smith was born in the same town. She once said: “Erith has a suicide pact with Dagenham.” Dagenham is directly opposite Erith, on the north side of the Thames.

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