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  • There is a class at our gym called the Beaconsfield Ballet Workout.

    Beaconsfield Ballet Workout Teena in Toronto 2007

  • There is a class at our gym called the Beaconsfield Ballet Workout.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Teena in Toronto 2007

  • We asked the name of the place and were told that it was called Beaconsfield (I mean of course that it was called Beconsfield and not Beaconsfield), and we said to each other, "This is the sort of place where some day we will make our home."

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • A survivor of the gold mining disaster that gripped the world two years ago said yesterday that a musical in Melbourne called Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor was disrespectful to a workmate who was crushed to death in the rockfall.

    Taipei Times 2008

  • Sydney - A survivor of the Australian gold mining disaster that gripped the world two years ago said Tuesday a musical running in Melbourne called Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor was disrespectful to a workmate who was crushed to death in the rockfall.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2008

  • The late Slim Dusty and Stan Coster wrote and sang real songs about and for real Australians, and I had them in mind as I wrote "Beaconsfield".

    Beaconsfield 2006

  • What is especially intriguing about these discreet stitches is that the threads my surgeon used are quite vividly blue, an almost peacocky shade that leans toward ultramarine (depending on the light) — and not the somber black that I recall from the last time I recall having needed stitches, which was when I experienced lawnmower misadventure on the farm at Upper Beaconsfield, circa 1984 or 1985, and got a nasty cut on my calf.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Hope Springs, Ty's first original dramatic creation, was inspired by the memories of old black-and-white films he and his father watched together on television on Saturday afternoons, along with Ty's own experience of Hollywood when the family moved from Beaconsfield to Beverly Hills after Lionel got a role in the 1967 film Camelot.

    'Dad was too much to compete with' 2012

  • And Beaconsfield took to him: well, the army types anyway.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • What is especially intriguing about these discreet stitches is that the threads my surgeon used are quite vividly blue, an almost peacocky shade that leans toward ultramarine (depending on the light) — and not the somber black that I recall from the last time I recall having needed stitches, which was when I experienced lawnmower misadventure on the farm at Upper Beaconsfield, circa 1984 or 1985, and got a nasty cut on my calf.

    Stitches 2009

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