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unusual facts about Clapham-Stern House


Clapham-Stern House

It was originally built between 1868 and 1872 and turned into a premier estate in 1906 after being purchased by department store magnate Benjamin Stern.


1880 FA Cup Final

Clapham Rovers won 1–0, the only goal scored by Clopton Lloyd-Jones.

Abraham Rees

His first ministerial engagement was in the independent congregation at Clapham, where he preached once a fortnight, as assistant to Philip Furneaux.

British Rail Class 74

One exception to this were the frequent balancing runs between their home depot of Eastleigh and their day-time out-stations of either Clapham Junction yard or Stewarts Lane depot in readiness for night-time postal and newspaper trains from Waterloo.

Clapham High Street railway station

This station was opened on 25 August 1862 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) as Clapham, renamed Clapham & North Stockwell from May 1863.

Clapham railway station, Adelaide

Its remains are located on the north side of the Springbank Road overpass in the inner southern Adelaide suburb of Clapham.

Clapham railway station was a railway station on the Belair railway line in suburban Adelaide, South Australia, which was closed in April 1995.

Clapham, North Yorkshire

In the 14th century John de Clapham, who took his surname from the village, was a supporter of the Earl of Warwick and lived at Clapdale Castle.

Digby Jephson

He was educated at Manor House School in Clapham and at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Freemans

The company was founded as Freemans & Co in 1905 by four partners, A.C. Rampton, W.E. Jones, S.C. Rampton and H.A. Freeman and began life with only twelve staff out of a terraced house based in Clapham, just outside London.

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

Indigo FM

The coverage area for Indigo FM includes towns and villages in the South Lakes, North Lancashire & North Yorkshire area including: Kirkby Lonsdale, Ingleton, Sedbergh, Casterton, Barbon, Clapham, Bentham and Caton.

Keighley and Kendal Turnpike

Initially there were five toll bars on the turnpike: Steeton Bank, Holme Bridge, Long Preston Bridge, Clapham and Kirkby Lonsdale.

La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School

During World War II the school was evacuated to Horndean in Hampshire, and after the war the school returned to Clapham Park.

Mark Clapham

Clapham started out writing Doctor Who fan fiction and, through Seventh Door Fanzines, began to work with Lance Parkin.

Clapham went on to co-write The Taking of Planet 5 with Simon Bucher-Jones in the BBC's Doctor Who novel line, before eventually writing his first solo novel, Hope.

Otter Lake, Quebec

While Clapham Township was not officially established until 1920, it was already planned in the second half of the 19th century and named after a village north of Bedford, England.

Stern House

The Stern House was built in 1877 for the Yehuda Stern family, recently emigrating from Germany.

The building now houses the Jerusalem "flagship store" of the Steimatzky bookstore chain and an outdoor cafe.

This Happy Breed

The Gibbons family has just moved into 17 Sycamore Road in Clapham in South London.

William Beale

Firstly to Miss Charlotte Elkins, a daughter of the Groom of the Stole to George IV (Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester or Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath), and secondly to Miss Georgiana Grove, of Clapham.


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