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4 unusual facts about East London


Brendan Augustine

Brendan Augustine (born 26 November 1971 in East London) is a South African former football player.

Gladys O'Connor

Born in East London, United Kingdom, O'Connor and her family moved to Canada when she was 9.

Mario Gerosa

He was called for the 1995 Rugby World Cup, playing two games and scoring a try in 31-25 win over Argentina, at 4 June 1995, in East London.

New South Wales Imperial Bushmen

The unit departed East London on the transport Orient and returned to Australia on 17 July 1901.


Dry the River

FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE SEE WIKIPEDIA POLICY WP:PLURALS and The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, P. Peters p.23 (2004) ISBN 0-521-62181-X -->are an English folk-rock band, formed in the Stratford district of East London in 2009.

European eel

Eels have been important sources of food both as adults (including the famous jellied eels of East London) and as glass eels.

Hans Grimm

Under pressure from his father he left university in 1895 and went into business, working for a German company in Great Britain (in Nottingham and London), and then in the British-ruled Cape Colony (in Port Elizabeth and East London), where he also rented a small farm.

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij

The line's routes, beyond the home islands, included services to the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Saigon; the Australian ports of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide; African ports such as Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Zanzibar, Mombasa, and the Indian Ocean ports of Réunion and Mauritius and Mahé.

Lined catshark

The lined catshark or banded catshark (Halaelurus lineatus) is a species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, found from Beira, Mozambique to East London, South Africa between latitudes 19° S and 31° S, from the surface to 290 m.

London Buddhist Centre

The London Buddhist Centre (LBC) in Bethnal Green, East London, is the main London base of the Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly known as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.

Port Elizabeth railway station

You can also get to Cape Town, Kimberley, Pietermaritzburg and Durban (by changing trains in Bloemfontein), to East London (by changing trains in Noupoort, Colesburg or Bloemfontein), to Mthatha (by changing trains in Noupoort and Amabele) or to Grahamstown (by changing trains in Alicedale)

Robin Lee Graham

Graham spent nine months in South Africa, calling on ports along the southern edge of the continent including East London, South Africa, Port Elizabeth, Plettenberg Bay, Knysna, Stilbaai, Struisbaai, Gordon's Bay and finally Cape Town.

The Showroom

For many years, and until 2008, the gallery was based at a site in East London.


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A101

A101 road (England) or Rotherhithe Tunnel, road tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in East London

Accidental damage of art

In May 2004, a fire destroyed the Momart warehouse in east London, together with more than 50 works by abstract painter Patrick Heron and other artists.

Anti-Fascist Action

In 1993, Derek Beackon, a candidate from the British National Party (BNP), won a council seat on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets, East London; under the slogan of "Rights for Whites".

Art destruction

In May 2004 a fire destroyed the Momart warehouse in east London which destroyed more than 50 works by abstract painter Patrick Heron and works by other artists.

Bethnal Green station

There are two railway stations named for Bethnal Green, east London.

Biota

Biota!, a planned aquarium operated by Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in east London.

Blossom Jackson

Originally from Tobago, she came to Britain as a young child and grew up in east London.

Buffalo City

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, which includes East London and King William's Town

Callender's Cableworks Band

Ltd, later British Insulated Callender's Cables, in Belvedere, south-east London, and performing in London and south-east England.

Carli Norris

She moved with her family to Woodford in East London in 1991 and took a Performing Arts Course at Epping Forest College in Loughton, Essex.

CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1883

At the time the Four-coupled Joy locomotives entered service in 1883, the Eastern System mainline from East London was open as far as Queenstown, the two Midland System mainlines from Port Elizabeth were open to Graaff Reinet and approaching Rosmead via Cradock, while the Western System mainline from Beaufort West was approaching De Aar.

East London Inventors Club

East London Inventors' Club (also known as ELIC) was set up at the University of East London (at their Docklands campus) as a way for inventors in the area to get together and share their expertise and resources.

Edmund Walter Pook

Jane, who was just seventeen years old, was attacked with a hammer in Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, South-East London - a killing that came to be known as the Eltham Murder.

Elevator Gallery

located on the fifth floor of a former chocolate factory in Hackney Wick, Hackney, east London, England.

Far right in the United Kingdom

They have never achieved representation in the House of Commons, although they have had a number of local councillors in some inner-city areas of east London, and towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, such as Burnley and Keighley.

Jubilee Greenway

Following the Regents Canal through Camden The Greenway then connects to East London through Victoria Park to the River Thames where the Woolwich Foot Tunnel ties Greenwich and the South Bank to the Jubilee Walkway at Tower Bridge and back to St James’ via Westminster.

Lauren Etame Mayer

In November 2011, Lauren's Rolex Daytona watch was found and returned after six years by police after raids in Essex and East London.

Levantine cuisine

Sami Zubaida, "National, Communal and Global Dimensions in Middle Eastern Food Cultures" in Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper, A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East, London and New York, 1994 and 2000, ISBN 1-86064-603-4, p. 35.

LNER Class A4 4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

4 October 1962, Dwight D. Eisenhower hauled a special train from Stratford station in east London to York, after being specially cleaned by Kings Cross 'Top Shed' staff.

London Buses route 372

In January 2009, the route was taken over by East London Bus Group (now Stagecoach London), who currently operate it with seven Alexander Dennis Enviro200 single-deckers from their Thameside subsidiary's garage in Rainham.

London Racers

The team moved to the 1,200 capacity Lee Valley Ice Centre in Leyton, east London, although the arena was considered small for Elite League hockey.

London's Air Ambulance

From its base at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, the helicopter can reach any patient inside the M25 London orbital road, which acts as the service's catchment area, within 15 minutes.

Madeira Day

In 2010 on the 2nd May (Postponed until the 3rd due to poor weather) it will be celebrated again in Kennington Park, south east London from 10am to 7pm with food, drink and live music.

Maurice Colbourne

In 1972 he co-founded, together with Mike Irving and Guy Sprung, the Half Moon Theatre near Aldgate, east London.

Maurice Hope

Their PR was handled by Norman Giller who, like all the boxers apart from Scottish hero Watt, was based in East London.

Movement For Justice By Any Means Necessary

In 1993 a Kingsway student Shah Alam was nearly killed in a racist attack in Poplar, East London and they organised the Justice for Shah Alam Campaign which organised a march, public meetings, press conferences and court pickets to get the racists convicted and jailed.

Nathaniel Heckford

Nathaniel Heckford (1842 - 1871) was a paediatrician in Victorian London, who founded the East London Hospital for Children.

Never Miss a Beat

These scenes were filmed around the Tavy Bridge area of Thamesmead, South East London.

Noisettes discography

C ^ The music video for "Saturday Night" was made up of recordings by fans using only Nokia mobile devices, at an exclusive live performance in East London.

Oswald Hope Robertson

Robertson was born in Woolwich in south-east London, but at the age of one-and-a-half he emigrated with his parents to California, settling in the San Joaquin Valley.

Paul Vaessen

In 1985, Vaessen almost died from stab wounds suffered when a drug deal went wrong and dealers knifed him in a side street off the Old Kent Road in South East London.

R v Gnango

At approximately 6.20 pm on 2 October 2007, 26 year old Polish care worker Magda Pniewska was making her way home from her place of work at Manley Court, a care home run by Bupa in New Cross in South East London.

Richard Jupp

a folly, Severndroog Castle (built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company), on Shooter's Hill in south-east London (1784).

Royal Victoria Dock Bridge

The Royal Victoria Dock Bridge is a signature high-level footbridge crossing the Royal Victoria Dock in the Docklands area of east London designed by London-based architects and designers Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.

Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha

Baltacha is currently a physical education teacher and tutor at Bacon's College in South East London, having formerly been a physical education teacher at Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College (Old Kent Road, London) and a coach at the Charlton Athletic academy.

Shadwell station

Shadwell railway station, a station on the London Overground (formerly Shadwell tube station on the East London Line)

Spitalfields Market

New Spitalfields Market, a market in Leyton, East London, which opened in 1991

Stephen Marks

In 1978, Nicole Farhi was employed to head up the company’s design studio in Bow, East London.

Surrey Quays

In 1981, the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher established the London Docklands Development Corporation to redevelop the former dockyard areas of east London, including the Surrey Docks.

Swandown

To make the film, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair pedaled a swan pedalo over 160 miles down the River Thames from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in East London, occasionally joined by guests including Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Dudley Sutton, Dr Mark Lythgoe and Marcia Farquhar.

Tardisode

The presenter is on a London street, as he tells the viewers that a young boy called Dale Hicks and a young girl called Jane McEllen have gone missing, with the police having no idea where they are, followed by an encouragement from the presenter for the viewers to phone in and give information (to a 19-digit telephone number), at the same time revealing the road to be "Dame Kelly Holmes Close" (and the local authority to be "East London Council").

The Peckham Experiment

George Scott Williamson (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978), a husband and wife team, opened the Pioneer Health Centre in an area - Peckham, south east London, which was chosen because "this populace roughly represents a cross-section of the total populace of the nation with as widely differing a cultural admixture as it is possible to find in any circumscribed metropolitan area" - in a house in Queen's Road SE5 in 1926.

TN postcode area

However TN14 also covers part of south east London, and TN16 covers part of south east London and Tatsfield in Surrey.

Transport in Ashford, Kent

With the introduction of domestic train services along High Speed 1 between St Pancras railway station, Stratford International station in east London and Ashford, it is expected to pull the outer limits of the London commuter belt to the town and beyond, as travel time from Ashford to London is reduced from 83 to about 37 minutes.

Vernon Corea

Vernon Corea was a Christian, he was very involved in the work of the church in the UK - he was a Lay Reader of the Church of England at Emmanuel Church in Wimbledon Village, South-West London and previous to that appointment he was Lay Reader at Christ Church, Gipsy Hill in South-East London.

West Ham station

East London Rugby Football Club is situated nearby on Holland Road, which is also home to Kings Cross Steelers RFC and Phantoms RFC.

Wild Young Hearts

A music video for "Saturday Nights" was made up of recordings by fans using only Nokia mobile devices, at an exclusive live performance in East London.

Wildsurf

Ash said of the video: "Howard took us to the Natural History Museum in London. There we shot performance against giant video screens and metallic globes. We also headed to East London for more performance shots in the Docklands area. The video follows a sci-fi looking chick obsessed with water. She has some kinda weird aqua car and then ends up surfing a tsunami which destroys the city. The final special effect shot is so tacky and crap it's laughable!"