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In addition, an unofficial women's championship was held a day earlier in Croydon, England on March 19, 1932.
The first performance of the mass took place on March 3, 2011 at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon.
At the time of its first flight in 1931 it was referred to as the Brant Scud because the first prototype was built by Brant Aircraft Ltd. of Croydon.
The tram stop is built on the site of Bingham Road Halt on the Woodside and South Croydon Railway which was closed in 1915.
Alfred Bartłomiej Peszke (born 14 December 1899, died 3 March 1966 in Croydon) was a Polish Air Force officer, infantry veteran of the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921) and Air Force veteran of the September 1939 Campaign.
Alfred George Janes (30 June 1911 – 3 February 1999) was a Welsh artist, who worked in Swansea and Croydon.
On 31 May 1920 he made a non-stop flight from Croydon to Turin in 9 hours 30 minutes - a flight of 655 mi (1,050 km) and celebrated at the time as "the most meritorious flight on record".
There was previously a railway station on this site, on the single track line from Wimbledon to Croydon, which closed in 1997 in order for it to be converted for Tramlink use.
Born in Croydon, England, to Richard Brooker and Mary Ann (Skinner) Brooker, he moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1905 with his family.
Several notable mid-size businesses are headquartered in the business district of Croydon, including PAC Industries and Denaq Laptop Batteries.
Croydon was mentioned in the 1950 novel "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute, as an example of a largely abandoned gold rush town.
The company has expanded steadily with sofa stores from Gateshead to the openings in 2011 in both Brent Cross, London and Purley Way, Croydon.
The DH.34 entered service with Daimler on 2 April 1922 on the Croydon-Paris service.
At this point, the track follows the route of the old West Croydon to Wimbledon Line between Wimbledon and Croydon, although there was no station on the Dundonald Road site.
Ebony spent many years playing for Redoubtables Women's Cricket Club in Croydon but has since moved to Shepperton CC and plays alongside fellow England women's cricket team mates Nicki Shaw and Caroline Atkins.
He went to Croydon School, Wellington and Christ's College, Canterbury later studying under Professor Von Zedlitz in Wellington.
With a key project dependency out of synchronisation, TIE held discussions with Transport for London about delivering the trams to Croydon to conduct operational tests on the Tramlink network.
Forest Hill railway station, railway station in Forest Hill, London built by historic former London & Croydon Railway; the station is now used by British National Rail
Concert performances include Nocturne in C Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, Après un rêve by Gabriel Fauré in St George's Cathedral, Southwark; Model in Disney Fashion show along with Selena Gomez as part of Wizards of Waverly Place clothing range launch; Acoustic covers of many popular Soul, R&B and Pop songs in Croydon Fairfields Hall; Singing in Olympic Gala Concert with National Youth Choir of Great Britain in Royal Albert Hall.
The Croydon factory closed down in 1934, and a larger factory was opened in 1935 at London Air Park, Hanworth.
Goliath F-ADDT Languedoc of Air Union was on a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris to Croydon when the port engine failed.
On 7 April 1922, Goliath F-GEAD, flying from Le Bourget to London Croydon was lost in the first-ever midair collision of airliners.
Harrington Road tram stop, a light rail station in Croydon, London, England
As a schoolteacher in Croydon, she became acquainted with D. H. Lawrence, and her diary served as the inspiration for Lawrence's second novel The Trespasser.
In 1888 he bought a twenty-acre (8 ha) bushland property with a small dwelling ('The Gables') at Kilsyth, near Croydon, at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges.
Say was intended to follow a commercial career, and in 1785 was sent, with his brother Horace, to complete his education in England: here he attended a private school in Croydon, and was afterwards employed by a merchant in London.
Electrification took place between Flinders Street and Box Hill in December 1922, and extended to Ringwood the following month, then Croydon in November 1925 and finally to Lilydale in October 1925.
Hinshelwood was born in Reading, but grew up in Croydon, and in 1969, (along with his brother Paul) played in the final of the London FA Schools Cup, watched by then Crystal Palace manager Arthur Rowe.
Maureen Milgram Forrest, (born 1 February 1938, London, England; died 1 March 2013, Victoria, British Columbia) was the founder chair Leicesterherday Trust, Leicester, and the original project director for the BRIT (British Recording Industry Trust) School of the Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon, London.
Schooled at The Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon, Swaibu joined the Crystal Palace academy at the age of 16 having been spotted playing for Croydon Schools and never having been previously associated with a professional club.
She was born Nesta Williams in Thonrhill Heath, Croydon, England, the daughter of Alfred Edward Williams and Agnes Mary Sievers, and was educated in Ottawa.
The tower is located on the 'urban motorway' of Wellesley Road above the Croydon Underpass and next to the current Croydon Council offices in Taberner House, Croydon College, and the theatre and performance space of the Fairfield Halls and Ashcroft Theatre.
After spending a large period of time in Croydon, No. 287 Squadron moved to RAF North Weald in 1944, RAF Bradwell Bay in 1945 and RAF West Malling in September 1945.
Oasis Community Learning sponsor ten other academies across the UK, including South Bristol, Grimsby, Immingham, Enfield, Salford, Croydon and Southampton East and West.
In 1928, the Oliver Typewriter Company was sold to investors who formed the British Oliver Typewriter Company in Croydon, England.
Being based in Croydon, Reed was part of a close-knit community of young producers attempting to make dark garage tracks that would catch the ear of Big Apple Records resident DJ Hatcha so that he could support them on his popular pirate radio show.
The headquarters of the PSA were in Croydon, Greater London, occupying space in several 1960s office blocks including the Whitgift Centre, Lunar House and Apollo House.
An example of this, is the branch of Walkabout in Croydon town centre, Surrey.
Subsequently, the developers applied to Croydon Council for permission to construct 47 additional apartments on the site of the derelict Total/Elf/Fina petrol station, also on London Road.
It is also conveniently placed for a number of others located within a couple of miles from the village including Croydon High School, Harris Academy Purley, Riddlesdown Collegiate, Royal Russell School, The Quest Academy, Thomas More Catholic School, Warlingham School, and Whitgift School.
Under an agreement reached with Thomas Tilling, the garage was allocated to the latter's use, along with Croydon and Lewisham, resulting in Tilling-type vehicles being the mainstay of the fleet until 1949, when the final petrol-engined STL-type double deckers were finally superseded.
The railway originated as an independent scheme drawn up by several former officers and directors of the LB&SCR in 1864 for a line from Croydon to Tunbridge Wells, via Oxted.
The Archbishop Lanfranc School is a comprehensive secondary school in the Thornton Heath area of Croydon, south London, named after Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089.
In December 2012, following the death of Croydon MP Malcolm Wicks, Bentley was criticised in the UK press after remarking that the MP's death was "the Lord's justice" for the role Wicks played in barring Bentley from entering the country.
Both the first and second aircraft were used from September 1920 for two months on an experimental express air mail service between Croydon and Le Bourget.
Bill Pitt (born 1937), British politician and Liberal Member of Parliament for Croydon North West, 1981–1983
In the following years the London and Southampton Railway was renamed the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), and the London and Croydon Railway merged with another company to from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR).