Perhaps one of Teddington's most famous 'residents' is Two Ton Ted.

Ted appears in the 1971 Benny Hill song 'Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west).'

The innuendo laden comedy song is inspired by Hill's time as a milkman and achieved the Christmas number one in 1971.

The song tells the fictional exploits of Ernie Price, a 52-year-old milkman who drives a horse–drawn milk cart.

It relates his feud with the bread delivery man ("Two-Ton Ted" from Teddington) and their efforts to win the heart of Sue, a widow who lives alone at No. 22, Linley Lane.

When Ted sees Ernie's cart outside Sue's house all afternoon, he becomes enraged and violently kicks Price's horse, Trigger.

The two men resort to a duel, using the wares they carry on their respective carts for weapons, and Ernie is killed by a rock cake underneath his heart, followed by a stale pork pie in his eye; in the original television version it was a fresh meat pie.

Sue and Ted then marry, but Ernie's ghost returns to haunt them on their wedding night.

So who played Two Ton Ted?

Well that would be Henry McGee.

He would usually play the straight-man opposite Benny Hill.

McGee was also often the announcer on Hill's TV programme, delivering the upbeat intro "Yes! It's The Benny Hill Show!"

Henry died in nearby Twickenham in 2006 at the age of 76.

It does not appear Ted has any real life basing but he's still one of the area's most notorious residents