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unusual facts about Church Army Chapel, Blackheath


Gorton Monastery

In the 1970s E.T. Spashett, consultant architect to the Benedictines and architect of the Church Army Chapel, Blackheath, re-designed the accommodation over the cloisters, combining cells to make small dormitories and studies, and designing a new iron gate for the cloisters.


Alan S. C. Ross

He was educated at Lindisfarne in Blackheath, Naish House in Burnham-on-Sea, Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon.

All Saints' Church, King's Heath

This was replaced in 1892 by an organ by Flight and Robson from St. John's Church, Blackheath, London.

Anthony Quiney

A tall man with thick white hair, Quiney is frequently seen with his Border Collie Rex, on Blackheath or in Greenwich Park.

Betsey Trotwood

Betsey Trotwood plays a bigger role in David Copperfield's later life by taking him in after he has run away from labelling wine bottles in the factory in Blackheath where his stepfather, Edward Murdstone, had placed him to work after the death of David's mother.

Blackheath Proprietary School

The school buildings were situated near Blackheath Park and in Lee Park and were described as "a handsome building after the model of the Propylaeum in Athens".

Blackheath, New South Wales

Bheathstation.jpg"?title=Blackheath railway station, New South Wales">Blackheath railway station, 2006.

The Venturi effect, where airflow is constricted by vertical cliffs and deep valleys, would probably have produced winds notably stronger than this in vulnerable locations in town and nearby.

In September, daffodils bloom and on the first weekend of November, Blackheath hosts an annual Rhododendron Festival.

Blackheath was connected to the Main Western railway line in 1869, and the town is now served by the Blackheath railway station located on the Blue Mountains Line.

Blackheath, West Midlands

The parish of St Paul was established in 1865 as a distinct entity from that of Rowley Regis and the new church consecrated in 1869.

Before 1841, Bleak Heath or Blake Heath was a small group of farm houses and inns on the turnpike road from Oldbury to Halesowen, within Rowley Regis.

The changes brought about by the industrial revolution led to a Private Act in June that year that allowed the sale of the Rowley Regis glebe lands in order to finance the building of a new vicarage.

Bullaburra, New South Wales

The Railway Department had agreed to supply electricity to the Blue Mountains Shire Council from the power station at Lithgow and a transmission line was put through from Blackheath to Lawson with a track to provide maintenance access.

Charlton Park, Greenwich

It is situated east of Charlton village and Charlton House, and south of Charlton Park Road (the B210, linking Woolwich and Blackheath).

Claude Morley

Claude Morley (22 June 1874 Astley Bank, Blackheath-13 November, 1951 Monk Soham House, Monk Soham Woodbridge, Suffolk) was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera.

Dina Asher-Smith

Dina Asher Smith (born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter who represents Blackheath and Bromley A.C. She is the 2013 European Junior Champion at 200 m and won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow as a member of the British 4 x 100m relay team.

Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley

Invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, he was created Baron Tangley, of Blackheath in the County of Surrey on 22 January 1964.

Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney

In 1497 the king had prepared an army to invade Scotland to punish James IV for his support of Perkin Warbeck, and had given the command to Daubeney; but he has hardly marched when he was recalled ito put down the Cornish rebels, who came to Blackheath unmolested, and was criticised by the king.

Haldane Stewart

He scored 142 at Lord's against the M.C.C. in 1897 and scored 203 not out for Blackheath against Granville, Lee.

Halesowen News

It has been in circulation since February 1985 and as well as residents of Halesowen, it is also posted to the homes of readers living in surrounding communities including Quinton, Rowley Regis, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, Old Hill and Cradley.

Hermann Görtz

In May 1940 the Irish police raided the home of an IRA member of German descent, Stephen Carroll Held, who had been working with Görtz, at his house at Blackheath Park, Clontarf.

John Elliott Cairnes

In 1873 his own university conferred on him the degree of LL.D. He died at Blackheath, near London, on 8 July 1875.

London Buses route 108

Since takeover by Harris, the 108 has been diverted via North Greenwich, but reverted to a more direct route across Blackheath via Prince of Wales Road; the frequency has been further enhanced to every 10 minutes, utilising four earlier Excels made redundant by the loss of car park services at Lakeside Shopping Centre, but this is still not as good as the 5 minute double deck service provided in 1933.

London Farmers' Markets

The first Farmers' Market set up by LFM in London was in Islington in 1999, quickly followed by Farmers' Markets in Notting Hill, Blackheath, Peckham and Swiss Cottage.

Rectory Field

Blackheath rugby club captain, Lennard Stokes, who also captained his country on five occasions, located a new ground for the club, just east of the old Richardson Field on the Charlton Road.

Robert Halley

His father, Robert Halley senior, was the younger son of a farming family, and had moved south from Perthshire, Scotland in his youth to make his own way in life, living for a while as Head Gardener to a family in Dorset, and then becoming a nurseryman at Blackheath.

Squirrels Estate

The estate is served by the 244 bus service, which gave links to Old Hill and Dudley, and Service 417 to Halesowen town centre, Blackheath, Oldbury and West Bromwich.

The Asian Today

Most recently, the newspaper featured the threat of violent protests from prominent UK Sikh leader, Sewa Singh Mandla, after the Sikh community was angered by the a Bollywood film, Jo Bole So Nihaal, which they believed committed sacrilege and also exposed the case of a Blackheath imam who was suing a lottery-funded mosque.

Tosin Oke

After just under 2 years, he returned to London to attend Christ's College, a private School in Blackheath, followed by A-levels at Thomas Tallis sixth form.


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