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unusual facts about Thornton Heath


Holta

Viking passenger aeroplane, G-AHPM operated by Cunard Eagle Airways, transporting schoolboys from The Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath, London, crashed into the mountainside above the farm (Holtaheia).


The Archbishop Lanfranc School

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.

Wayne Routledge

Routledge was born in Sidcup, South East London and attended Archbishop Lanfranc School in Thornton Heath.


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The Archbishop Lanfranc School

The school was originally founded in 1931 as a boys' school in Thornton Road, Thornton Heath, near the junction with Mitcham Road and is close to Mitcham Common.