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The Lion's Back

The hill is known for in which a Chevrolet Blazer 4X4 lost its brakes and rolled down the hill, plunging 30 feet to the ground.


Adršpach

The rural area around the village was used as the filming location for the winter scenes in the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, one of the Narnia books written by British author C.S. Lewis.

Bert Parnaby

In 1988, he appeared as Father Christmas in the BBC adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Bixby's Back

Manny (Rico Rodriguez) expects to profit from Haley being free from both David and Dylan (Reid Ewing) and manages to convince Haley to send David a break-up email.

Cecil Scott

In the early 1940s he played with Alberto Socarras, Red Allen, Willie "The Lion" Smith before assembling his own band in 1942, which at times included Hot Lips Page and Art Hodes.

Christopher Bramwell

He appeared in several TV dramas including Grange Hill, Enemy at the Door, Tales of the Unexpected, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (in a brief appearance as the adult Peter Pevensie) and Van der Valk.

Digory Kirke

40 years later, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie stay with the now 52-year-old Professor Kirke at his house in the country during The Blitz of London.

Eventually the apple grows into a peculiar tree, and blows down in a storm at the end of the book, many years later; not having the heart to turn it into firewood, Digory has it crafted into the wardrobe which becomes the portal to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Edmund Pevensie

He is a principal character in three of the seven books (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), and a lesser character in two others (The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle).

Francine Brody

Brody has performed in UK performances of plays such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Glass Menagerie.

Hog's Back

However, the medieval name for the ridge was Guildown (recorded first in 1035 where it was the site of the abduction of Prince Alfred of Wessex by Earl Godwin and then in the Pipe Rolls for 1190 and onwards) but this name is no longer in use.

Jane Austen, in a letter to her sister Cassandra dated Thursday 20 May 1813 from her brother's house in Sloane Street, wrote of her journey to London in a curricle via "the Hog's-back" and said

Hwin

In The Horse and his Boy, (the events of which all occur during the reign of the four Pevensie children in Narnia, an era which begins and ends in the last chapter of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Hwin and Aravis fall into company with the talking stallion, Bree, to whom Hwin is distantly related, and the boy Shasta.

I Shouldn't Have Done It

"I Shouldn't Have Done It" was the first single released from Slick Rick's second album, The Ruler's Back.

Jaguar Mark 1

The Jaguar Mark I gained a certain notoriety when on 22 January 1959 former motor racing world champion Mike Hawthorn died in an accident involving his own highly-tuned 3.4-litre, VDU 881, on the A31 Hog's Back road near Guildford in Surrey, England.

Josie Maran

After building a résumé of over 25 commercials and advertisements, including playing Howie D's companion in the music video of Backstreet Boys hit Everybody (Backstreet's Back), in which she was bitten on the neck by Count Dracula (played by Howie D), Maran moved cross-country to join with Elite in New York City.

Lady of the Green Kirtle

The mechanics of how Jadis could return are never made clear, since she is killed at the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, her last appearance in the books except for The Magician's Nephew.

Lucton School

Recently, the Senior School has produced "Daisy Pulls It Off", "Teechers", "A Christmas Carol" and "Hi-de-Hi!"; the Middle School has offered "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Toad of Toad Hall", "The Phantom Tollbooth" and "Wyrd Sisters"; Prep School productions have included "Cinderella and Rockerfella" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream", whilst the Nursery produces a traditional Nativity each year.

Lucy Pevensie

She is the youngest of the four Pevensie children, and the first to find the Wardrobe entrance to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Lucy is a principal character in three of the seven books (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader), and a minor character in two others (The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle).

Meaghan Davies

Meaghan's main body of work to date has been on the stage, performing for Belvoir in five productions, for Queensland Theatre Company, and as the lead role of Lucy in Nadia Tass' musical production of "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe".

Mick Walter

He has appeared in the BBC's adaptations of four of The Chronicles of Narnia: in 1988, he played the White Witch's dwarf in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in 1989, he played Trumpkin in Prince Caspian, and again in 1990 in The Silver Chair.

Mr. and Mrs. Beaver

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe they are instrumental in conveying the Pevensie children to Aslan, and they appear briefly in the final novel The Last Battle.

Oliver Farnworth

Before appearing in Hollyoaks, Farnworth appeared in the play The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Parker's Back

The story starts with Parker and his Biblically-named wife, Sarah Ruth, on the front porch in of their country house.

Peter Pevensie

Peter appears in four of the seven books; as a child and a principal character in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, and as an adult in The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle.

In Disney's live-action films, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, Peter is portrayed by English actor William Moseley.

Pewsey railway station

Pewsey Station is mentioned in the December 2005 film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Poor Old Lu

The name refers to a segment in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in which Lucy ('Lu'), returns from Narnia and tells her brother, Peter.

Robin Lawrie

Notable work includes a graphic novel adaptation of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' and 'The Magician's Nephew' by C. S. Lewis.

Ronald Pickup

He was the voice of Aslan in the BBC adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988) and subsequent Chronicles of Narnia serials derived from the books by C.S. Lewis.

The Eagle and Child

The formal meetings ended in October 1949 when interest in the readings finally petered out, but the meetings at the Eagle and Child continued, and it was at one of those meetings in June 1950 that C.S. Lewis distributed the proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The Horse and His Boy

Walden Media, having already made movie adaptions of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, also retains the option to make The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy in the future.

The Lion

With her idealistic view of the African savanna crushed, Patricia finally gives in to everyone's demands and leaves with the narrator to attend a boarding school in Nairobi.

The Teacher's Back

Controversial deejay Vybz Kartel recently released an album for the Japanese market.

Traci Lind

Traci Lind (born Traci Lin Wemes April 1, 1968 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American film actress who is known for playing Alex Young in Fright Night II, Christie Langford in Class of 1999 and Missy McCloud in My Boyfriend's Back.

Vintage Motor Cycle Club

The Vintage Motor Cycle Club was founded on 28 April 1946, by 38 enthusiasts at the Lounge Cafe, Hog's Back, near Guildford in Surrey, for owners of motorcycles manufactured before December 1930.


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