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5 unusual facts about Kingsway


Bertie Alexander Meyer

From Christmas 1954, he produced a stage adaption of Enid Blyton's Noddy, Noddy in Toyland, with stage director André van Gyseghem at the large Stoll Theatre in Kingsway, London.

Kingsway, Southport

Golfer Lee Trevino visited the casino of the Kingsway during the Open Golf in the 1960s.

Kingsway/Royal Alex LRT Station

It is located adjacent to the Royal Alexandra Hospital on the north side of Kingsway.

London Buses route 31

On 15 May 1916, the 31 was extended to run daily from Swiss Cottage to Tulse Hill (Tulse Hill Tavern) via Adelaide Road, Camden Town, Eversholt Street, Russell Square, Southampton Row, Kingsway, Aldwych, Waterloo Bridge, Elephant & Castle, Camberwell Green, Denmark Hill and Herne Hill, replacing route 68, which was withdrawn on the same day.

Opera Comique

It opened in 1870 and was demolished in 1902, to make way for the construction of the Aldwych and Kingsway.


Bishop Auckland F.C.

The club moved out of Kingsway with plans to move into a purpose-built stadium at Tindale Crescent near Bishop Auckland.

Brick Up the Mersey Tunnels

Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels is a play about the story of the Kingsway Three, a fictitious terrorist organisation, and their plans to brick up the Tunnels which join Liverpool to the Wirral.

Darch, Western Australia

The 352 route, which enters the suburb and serves the central section, links to Whitfords railway station; the 450, running along Kingsway, links to Warwick railway station, whilst the 372 route, which terminates on Landsdale Road in the suburb's southwestern corner, links to Mirrabooka bus station.

Kingsway Camp

Kingsway Camp officially known as Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar (GTB Nagar), since 1970, is a historic area located in North Delhi, near Civil Lines and Delhi University.

Kingsway Regional High School

In November 2005, the Kingsway Dragon Marching Band became the Group II Champion at the Cavalcade of Bands championship at Hersheypark Stadium for its show based on the rock opera Tommy by The Who.

Kingsway Tunnel

The entrance to the Kingsway Tunnel is used as the basis of a tunnel entrance in the video game Grand Theft Auto III — during the 1990s, several members of the game's development team had worked for the Merseyside-based development company Psygnosis.

Kingsway Village

For the County Council purposes it is part of the new ward of Grange and Kingsway.

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.

Royalton Kisch

All the recordings were made for Decca in the Kingsway Hall, London, beginning in 1947, and produced by John Culshaw apart from the Schumann and Mendelssohn, produced by Victor Olof.

Seamen's Haven

The Seamen's Haven was a social club and mission that operation from 1944 until 2002 for visiting sailors located on Kingsway Avenue in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada.

Swansea City Centre

Apart from the night life venues, The Kingsway has a number of banks, shops, fast food outlets and branch of the YMCA.

The King's Way

The song was written on 27 December 1909 to celebrate the opening of London's Kingsway, a wide street in central London connecting High Holborn to the centre of the crescent south of it called Aldwych.

Warrington Corporation Tramways

Although there was still several years of life in the tracks before renewal was required, the Sankey Bridges and Cemetery routes were replaced by a through bus service on 28 March 1935, extended at the Cemetery end as far as the junction with the new Kingsway road, near Bruche Bridge.

Winifred Carter

Doctor Johnson’s Mrs. Thrale – Adelphi, Strand, Little and Kingsway Theatres, London; published 1938/— (possibly originally published 1936)


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