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5 unusual facts about Battersea


Eidos Interactive

SCi left their Battersea Office and moved into the old Eidos office on the second floor of Wimbledon Bridge House, 1 Hartfield Road, Wimbledon.

Hotels in London

Rafayel on the Left BankBattersea65London's first eco-friendly 5-star boutique hotel on the south side of the river next to London heliport;

Jimmy Wheeler

Born Ernest Remnant in Battersea, he acquired the name Jimmy from George Formby (Senior), who introduced him on stage early in his career as 'Lucky Jim'.

Leontine Cooper

Leontine was born in Battersea, Surrey to Frenchman Jean François (aka 'John Francis') Buisson and his English wife Dorothy.

Why I Am Not a Christian

Originally a talk given March 6, 1927 at Battersea Town Hall, under the auspices of the South London Branch of the National Secular Society, it was published that year as a pamphlet and was later published, with other essays, in the book, Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (ISBN 0-671-20323-1).


1830 in sports

10 August — the Wingfield Sculls, amateur championship of the River Thames, is founded at the instigation of barrister Henry Colsell Wingfield and raced from Battersea to Hammersmith.

Balham station

From the outset the line was worked by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, which purchased the line in 1859 after it had been extended to Battersea Wharf.

Battersea Grammar School

It was established in Battersea in 1875 by the Sir Walter St John Trust and moved to larger premises in Streatham in 1936.

The joint history dates back to the late 1660s, when Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet founded a school on his estate at Battersea.

Battersea Park School

Battersea Park School (formerly Battersea Technology College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located near Battersea Park in the Battersea area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England.

Blackstock Road

There are four bus services running along it, the 4, 19, 106 and 236, reaching out to Battersea, Waterloo or Archway, Hackney Wick and Whitechapel respectively.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Cheryl was one of six featured composers in Tete a Tete's opera project Family Matters (based on Beaumarchais’ third Figaro play The Guilty Mother) with a libretto by Olivier-Award winner Amanda Holden: workshops took place in Battersea Arts Centre in September 2003, with the final opera being staged throughout February 2004 at the Bridewell Theatre, followed by twelve performances around the country.

Christopher Forbes

Always interested in art and collecting, he worked with his father Malcolm Forbes restoring the Château de Balleroy in Normandy, France, and Old Battersea House in London, England.

Daphne Jackson

Jackson moved to what is now called the University of Surrey at the invitation of Lewis Elton to study nuclear physics when he became head of the physics department at Battersea College of Advanced Technology.

Francis Douglas

Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch (1889–1980), MP from Battersea North and Governor-General of Malta

Horatio Barber

Barber was one of the first aviation pioneers and within a few years of the first powered flight he leased a railway arch in Battersea to design and produce aircraft.

Leontine Cooper

Leontine was the eldest of their 11 children and she grew up first in Battersea then in Brighton.

Lewis Elton Gallery

The Gallery was named in 1997 after Professor Lewis Elton who initiated the display of original artwork at Surrey University's Physics Department in Battersea in 1963.

Price's Candles

Price's Candles was founded by William Wilson in 1830, and originally consisted of a candle factory at Vauxhall, London and a crushing mill upstream at Battersea, York Road.

Ra-Ra Zoo

They opened their first full show at the Battersea Arts Centre as part of the London International Mime Festival in January 1985 their first theatres show 'Juggling With A Social Conscience'.

Sapphire Battersea

Sapphire Battersea is the 2011 sequel to Hetty Feather, written by best selling English author Jacqueline Wilson.

The Ascension, Lavender Hill

The foundation stone was laid on the 1st June, 1874, by John Patrick Boyle, Earl of Glasgow; according to Henry Simmonds in All About Battersea (1882) it was situated "under the altar" of the temporary church.

Tottenham by-election, 2000

Neither of the other main party candidates was able to mount a credible challenge in a seat where Labour was so strongly ahead, with Liberal Democrat candidate and future Chippenham MP Duncan Hames finishing second, and Conservative candidate and future Battersea MP Jane Ellison coming third.

Zygmunt Szkopiak

Liberated by the British Eighth Army, he and his family received refugee status and were sent to England where he entered the Polish College of the University of London at Battersea, received a doctorate in the physics of metallurgy and joined the staff of Battersea College of Advanced Technology which, in 1968, became the University of Surrey.


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