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unusual facts about Kingston-upon-Thames



1642 in poetry

John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many times and later received high praise from Samuel Johnson, although Denham's reputation later ebbed

1896–97 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

"The Irons" had not yet played London Welsh and as a result, and probably thanks also to Arnold Hills' presidency of the league and Francis Payne's drafting of the rules, Thames Ironworks F.C. were awarded two wins by default and finished the revised league as runners up.

1897–98 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

On 11 September 1897, in their first game of the new season of the London League and also at their new ground, Thames beat Brentford F.C. 1–0.

A308 road

The long Kingston Vale to Bisham route starts at the Robin Hood Gate roundabout, the only give-way junction of the A3 south-west of Wandsworth and north-east of Greatham, Hampshire.

André Fauteux

See Bibliography: Karen Wilkin, “André Fauteux/ Ten Years”, catalogue essay, 1982 for: André Fauteux, Ten Years, 1972-1982: André Fauteux, Dix Ans, 1972-1982 (Paperback, 1982), text by Karen Wilkin, Publisher: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University at Kingston, 61 pages, Illustrated, Language: English, (ISBN 0-88911-372-6 )

Balamory

Balamory was filmed mostly in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, with the exception of scenes at Archie's castle filmed at Fenton Tower in North Berwick.

Baron Lisle

Robert de Lisle of Rougemont married Alice FitzGerold (grand-daughter of Henry I FitzGerold (d.1173/4)), the heiress of Kingston in the parish of Sparsholt, Berkshire.

Bob Woolmer

On 18 March 2007, Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.

Buddy Peace

Dave House - "Weeknights and Weekends (Buddy Peace Remix)" from Kingston's Current (2004)

Catskill Mountain Railroad

On October 4, 2012, Ulster County Executive Michael P. Hein announced in his 2013 budget a plan to dismantle 32 miles of railroad in Ulster County to be replaced by a trail, leaving only the Phoenicia-Cold Brook segment, and ending Kingston operations.

CKWS

CKWS-FM, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to Kingston, Ontario, Canada, which originally held the call sign CKWS from 1942 to 1987, used the callsign CFFX in the interim

Daniel Bedingfield

In December 2009, he co-wrote material with Tessanne Chin as well as recorded three songs with Busy Signal at DJ Karim's Stainless Records studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

Diocese of London

Historically the diocese covered a large area north of the Thames and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the north and west.

Draycot Foliat

The Og, a tributary of the River Kennet (itself a tributary of the Thames), flows for about half of the year down the centre of the hamlet forcing the road into a sharp hairpin bend.

E. Bertram Mott

He attended public schools in Rockaway Township, before going on to Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1896.

Edward Rooker

Among Rooker's early works are a view on the Thames from Somerset House (1750), and a view of Vauxhall Gardens (1751), both after Canaletto; a view of the Parthenon for Dalton's 'Views of Sicily and Greece' (1751), and a section of St. Paul's Cathedral, decorated according to the

Firthside, Tasmania

Firthside is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Kingston, in the greater Hobart area, capital of Tasmania, Australia.

Genoa-Kingston High School

Genoa-Kingston High School is a public high school located in Genoa, Illinois.

Hammerton

Hammerton's Ferry, pedestrian and cycle ferry service across the River Thames in Richmond upon Thames, London

History of Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

This linked the brickworks to places such as Parliament House, and the Kingston Power House.

Howden, Tasmania

Nestled between the majorly-developing township of Kingston and the smaller Margate, it verges on bushland but is only a half-hour drive away from Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

Islam in Jamaica

Outside of Kingston, organizations include Masjid Al Haq in Mandeville, Masjid Al-Ihsan in Negril, Masjid-Al-Hikmah in Ocho Rios, the Port Maria Islamic Center in Saint Mary and the Ahmadiyya Mahdi Mosque in Old Harbour.

Jim M. Courtright

After completing his degree at U of O he enrolled at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he received a degree in Applied Science in 1941 and would later return as a Vice Principal.

John Hunter Gowan II

He also had illegitimate children by Margaret Hogan including another son, Ogle Robert Gowan, who was a prominent Orangeman newspaper publisher in Brockville, Kingston and Toronto, Canada and was founder and first Grand Master of the Orange AssociationCanada and his home in Canada is now called Nebo Lodge in tribute to his father's Wexford home Mount Nebo.

John King, 1st Baron Kingston

King married Catherine (died 1669), daughter of Sir William Fenton, of Mitchelstown, County Cork, and left two sons, Robert (died. 1693) and John successively second and third lords Kingston.

John Southerden Burn

In 1854 a new partner, Charles Tayler Ware, joined the firm; in the following year, after Stables's death, Burn retired from practice, and lived at The Grove in Henley-on-Thames.

John Theophilus Desaguliers

He was also technical adviser to an enterprise in which Chandos had invested, the York Buildings Company, which used steam-power to extract water from the Thames.

Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks, Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames (born 1952), British barrister and Liberal Democrat peer

Julian Corbett

The son of a London architect and property developer, Charles Joseph Corbett, who owned among other properties Imber Court at Weston Green, Thames Ditton, where he made the family home, Julian Corbett was educated at Marlborough College (1869–73) and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1873–6), where he took a first class honours degree in law.

Kingston, Sussex

Kingston by Ferring, a civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex

LSWR suburban lines

Using compressed air and the Greathead tunnelling shield, the line was constructed in twin tubes, passing under the River Thames and terminating at the Mansion House, in a common station provided by the Central London Railway.

Norman Tucker

Other tensions between Tucker and the board, combined with his great disappointment when a plan for a new opera house on the South Bank of the Thames was abandoned, badly affected his health.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Orphan bridge

An example of this is the abandoned Conrail bridge which parallels Delaware Avenue and crosses U.S. Route 9W in Kingston, NY.

Osmond Watson

Born in Kingston, Watson attended art classes at the Junior Centre of the Institute of Jamaica from 1948 until 1952; from that year until 1958 he attended the Jamaica School of Art in Kingston.

Postal codes in Jamaica

Although Kingston, the country's capital, along with part of the parish of St Andrew, was already subdivided into postal zones, these were not incorporated into the new codes.

Robert Edmond Miller

Robert Edmond Miller (born 24 January 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican diplomat, currently serving as Jamaica's High Commissioner to Abuja, Nigeria.

Robert Holles

As well as published works he was a successful TV writer with credits for Coronation Street and Hine as well as one-offs for the prestigious Play for Today slot on the BBC's main TV channel (Michael Regan and The Vanishing Army), two episodes for The Man Outside (Drama series, BBC 1972) and several plays in Thames TV's Armchair Theatre series.

Salsa d'Haïti

Additionally, jet-powered aircraft were to be added in 2011 to serve international destinations in Kingston, Jamaica and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Second Battle of Algeciras

In France the battle was represented as a victory, largely based on a report sent to Paris by Dumanoir le Pelley on the strength of a letter written by Captain Troude, which claimed that he had fought not only Venerable and Thames, but also Caesar and Spencer (misidentified in the report as Superb).

South County Newspapers

The South County paper covers South Kingstown (including the villages of Kingston, Peace Dale and Wakefield), Narragansett and Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Springbank Park

In the years following the creation of the waterworks the city began to purchase more land in the surrounding area and the spot became a resort serviced by steamers to and from London via the Thames River.

St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster

Robin Bruce Lockhart, Half-way to Heaven: The Hidden Life of the Sublime Carthusians (London: Thames Methuen, 1985)

Stephen Malcolm

Malcolm died in a car accident, only hours after playing Bulgaria in a friendly international in Kingston.

Thames, New Zealand

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park – WW2 Air Commander and AOC 11 Group during Battle of Britain (July – October 1940)

The Railrodder

He promptly throws the newspaper away and jumps into the Thames.

Türbe

Levey, Michael; The World of Ottoman Art, 1975, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0-500-27065-1

Walking in London

The path is broken by the lack of crossing of the Thames between Purfleet and Erith.

Wisdom in Chains

DVD contains live material (14 songs) recorded at show from May 2006 at Backstage Enterprises in Kingston, Pennsylvania, interview with Mad Joe Black and a three song recording from live performance at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.

Zachary Taylor Wood

He retired from the force due to poor health and died in Asheville, North Carolina in 1915 and buried at Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario.


see also

Angela Rumbold

She was Chair of the Governing Body of both Danes Hill School in Oxshott and Surbiton High School in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, as well as Vice Chair of the Governing Body of Tolworth Girls’ School, a large comprehensive school also in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Kingston-upon-Thames by-election, 1972

The Kingston-upon-Thames by-election of 4 May 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Boyd-Carpenter was appointed chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority.

Malcolm Campbell

An English Heritage blue plaque commemorates Campbell and his son at Canbury School, Kingston Hill, Kingston-upon Thames, where they lived.

Rose Theatre

Rose Theatre, Kingston, a theatre in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London, build in 2008

SW postcode area

The area originally extended as far west as Sunbury-on-Thames, however, changes to the size and make up of the London postal district since its inception led to many areas being transferred to the newly created outer London postcode districts of Kingston-upon-Thames and Twickenham.

William Flower

William Way (c. 1560–1588), Catholic martyr executed at Kingston upon Thames