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unusual facts about Portsmouth, Kingston



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 )

Andrew Best Semple

He graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1934 and specialised in public health, serving as an assistant Medical Officer of Health in Paisley, Portsmouth and Blackburn.

Arjan de Zeeuw

In the summer 2005, after falling out with then-Portsmouth manager Alain Perrin, he returned to Wigan Athletic for the nominal fee of £90,000.

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.

Basil Hall Chamberlain

Chamberlain was born in Southsea (a part of Portsmouth) on the south coast of England, the son of an Admiral William Charles Chamberlain and his wife Eliza Hall, the daughter of the travel writer Basil Hall.

Ben Burrell

He has previously presented Drive time on Play Radio and worked at a number of stations across the South including The Quay, Spirit FM and Galaxy FM.

Bitterne Manor

The area is bounded on the North, West and South by the River Itchen, and on the East by the railway line linking Southampton to Portsmouth.

Bob Woolmer

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

Brett Fancy

Born and raised in Portsmouth, he is the son of Brian Fancy, a HMNB Portsmouth dockyard worker, and is the grandson of Ralph Newson, who was a designer on the WWII Horsa Glider.

Buddy Peace

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

Carol Shea-Porter

Shea-Porter, like several of her colleagues, found herself on the defensive at two such events held in Portsmouth and Bedford.

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.

César Chávez School

Formerly known as Portsmouth Middle School, it was renamed in honor of Cesar Chavez in 2010.

Charles Tersolo

Subject matter covered by this artist includes Provincetown, Boston, Paris, the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and Mount Desert Island, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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.

Dorking railway station

In 1845-6, the "Direct London and Portsmouth Railway" was authorised by parliament to run south from Epsom to Dorking on to Godalming, Havant and Portsmouth.

E. Bertram Mott

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

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.

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.

Ironton–Russell Bridge

Soon, the Ironton-Russell bridge was followed by numerous others at Ashland, Portsmouth, and Huntington.

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.

Jennie Gow

In 2001, she became Traffic and Travel presenter on BBC Radio Solent, and then moved to the sports team as a journalist covering Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth.

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.

Kingston, Sussex

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

Louise Casey

Casey grew up in Portsmouth, and began her career with the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS), administrating the benefit payments of homeless people.

Mary Bruce, Countess of Elgin

Following a short stint in London the couple left England on 3 September 1799 so that Bruce could take up his Ambassadorial position; sailing from Portsmouth on the HMS Phaeton.

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.

Old Portsmouth

Areas and buildings within Old Portsmouth include: Portsmouth Cathedral, Royal Garrison Church/Domus Dei, The John Pounds Memorial Church (Unitarian), the Square Tower and Round Tower and Point Barracks, Portsmouth Point and the entrance to the Harbour.

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.

Paul Gilchrist

By the end of the 1977-78 season, Gilchrist had been joined at Portsmouth by his fellow ex-Saint, Bobby Stokes and St. John had been replaced as manager by Jimmy Dickinson, but he could not prevent Portsmouth being relegated into Division 4.

Pony Turf Club

In 1929, a dedicated racetrack was opened in Northolt, Middlesex and during the 1930s pony races are recorded as being held throughout the South West of England, as well as at Portsmouth Park (Paulsgrove), Worthing, Chelmsford, Southend, Sketty Park near Swansea and Lilleshall Hall, Shropshire.

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.

Richard Norton

Richard Norton of Southwick Park (1615–1691), British colonel in the parliamentary army in the English Civil War; MP and Governor of Portsmouth

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.

Salsa d'Haïti

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

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

South County Newspapers

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

Southern Co-operative

Head office was previously located at Fareham in Hampshire, but since July 2011, is now located at 1000 Lakeside, a business park in North Harbour, Portsmouth.

Stephen Malcolm

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

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.

Zierbena

The Ferry Port in Zierbena (which is known to some as Bilbao Ferry Port) has two arrivals and departures per week of the MV Cap Finistère (for Brittany Ferries), the sailings have either come from Portsmouth (Portsmouth International Port) or are bound for Portsmouth (Portsmouth International Port).


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