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unusual facts about Upton, Bexley



1974–75 West Ham United F.C. season

West Ham won the FA Cup Final for the second time, recording a 2-0 result against a Fulham side captained by former Upton Park legend Bobby Moore.

Albert Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton

He attended an elementary school in Upton only before going to work as an agricultural labourer.

Albert Prefontaine

Born in Upton, Canada East (now Quebec), the son of Firman Prefontaine and Matilda Desautel, Préfontaine was educated in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Alice Ricciardi-von Platen

Subsequently, she worked at the Tavistock Clinic and the Bexley Hospital, eventually setting up her own psychiatry practice in England.

Arash Markazi

When Markazi took Sports Illustrated swimsuit models Damaris Lewis and Kate Upton to the Los Angeles Clippers-Oklahoma City Thunder game on April 2, 2011, he helped catapult Upton’s popularity when he recorded her doing The Dougie and posted it on his Twitter.

Bexley

The house has been acquired by the National Trust and is open to the public, the house is not fully furnished, but the original features and furniture by Morris and Philip Webb, stained glass and paintings by Burne-Jones, the bold architecture and a garden designed to 'clothe the house are still available to view.

Bexley Township

His cousin, Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer - known commonly as Lord or Baron Bexley - was a colleague of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, after whom Eldon Township is named.

Bexley, New South Wales

On Roy and HG's radio show on Triple J radio, they have created a fake advertisement for 'New Old Melbourne Town' in Bexley.

Bexley, New Zealand

In the earthquake of September 2010 over 100 houses in the suburb were rendered uninhabitable by silt and subsidence due to soil liquefaction.

Other recent changes include the linking of Anzac Drive and Bexley Road to complete the Christchurch East Ring Road to the port of Lyttelton.

Bexleyheath Line

The Bexley Heath Railway led by railway engineer Alfred Bean (owner of Danson House) secured the necessary Act of Parliament to build the line in 1883 but was not until 1 May 1895 that the Bexleyheath Line was finally opened.

Camden Professor of Ancient History

The Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford was established in 1622 by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and endowed with the income of the manor of Bexley.

Cranmore chase

Two local Westcombe land owners, Colonel Henry Upton Lamyatt and Mr Everard Creech, had bid a large proportion of their families’ wealth to acquire a small but valuable parcel of land in Britain’s growing Indian Empire.

Davina McCall

With the help of historians Jean-Marc Berliere and Simon Kitson, McCall learned that she is the great-granddaughter of onetime Prefect of Police Célestin Hennion (1862–1915), and the great great great-granddaughter, on her father's side, of James Thomas Bedborough (1787–1860), a stonemason, councillor, Mayor, property developer and entrepreneur, who worked on Windsor Castle and Upton Park in Slough.

Denehole

Isolated specimens have been discovered in various parts of Kent and Essex, but the most important groups have been found at Grays Thurrock, in the districts of Woolwich, Abbey Wood and Bexley, and at Gravesend.

Donald Upton, Jr.

Upton is the son of broadcaster and songwriter Donald Niles Upton and former Miss Universe and model Miriam Stevenson.

Florence Kate Upton

Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for her Golliwogg series of children's books.

Harriet Taylor Upton

Harriet Upton was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1981, in the category of Government and Military Service.

Ian Bastow

He later concentrated on playing for Upton Athletic and was appointed as first-team player-coach of Upton in June 2006, succeeding his uncle, Richard Bastow, whose sons Alex, Darren and Paul all also play for Upton.

Jeff Rich

He attended school in Hackney at Upton House Comprehensive, and whilst there he appeared in the opera Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley

He was the only son of George Lumley (who had been executed in the lifetime of his father for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace), by Jane, second daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Knightley of Upton, Northamptonshire.

Justin Upton

Scouts rave about Upton's talent, and he is often compared to Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball Tonight's Peter Gammons stated during an episode that a Major League general manager recently told him that "Upton was the best 20-year-old he's ever seen".

On April 11, Upton homered off Jeff Francis of Colorado for his fourth home run of 2008 campaign.

Kislingbury

The earliest evidence of settlers in the area is the discovery of an Iron Age funeral pot, complete with ashes, dated c1500BC at Upton.

Maine State Route 26

SR 26 continues through the town of Upton before crossing into Cambridge, New Hampshire, where the highway continues as New Hampshire Route 26.

Mark Upton

Princess Alia of Jordan has also bought Mark Upton paintings.

Oretown, Oregon

In 1877, settlers James B. Upton and S. H. Rock petitioned Senator John H. Mitchell asking for a mail route to Grand Ronde and a post office.

Rebecca Night

She attended Yarrells Preparatory School in Upton, Dorset where she took great pleasure in being a part of the annual musical productions, and later Parkstone Grammar School in Poole as well as Brownsea Open Air Theatre.

Ricky Fenson

He appeared with the band in 1962 and 1963 with fellow Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages and Cyril Davies' All Stars band members Carlo Little and Nicky Hopkins, including a gig at Sidcup Art College, Bexley, which Keith Richards had attended.

Slough Borough Council

It was part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, although the hamlet of Slough (a few scattered houses and coaching inns along the Great West Road and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway arrived in the 1840s.

South Bend Silver Hawks

Notable former players include Brandon Webb, and Justin Upton, the #1 overall draft pick in 2005.

Stuart Draper

He was well received for his role in the play Hot Mikado by the Bexley Times which wrote, "In a good cast, Stuart Draper shone brightest as the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko, a blustering, avaricious coward in a pink suit who would have given Rik Mayall or Alexi Sayle a run for their money in the comedy stakes.".

Thomas Haynes Upton

Hailing from Collingwood, Melbourne, Upton learned his trade in England as a consulting engineer designing bridges and buildings before returning to Australia to work for the Victorian Country Roads Board.

Thomas Samwell

Sir Thomas Samwell, 1st Baronet of Upton (1654–1694) MP for Northamptonshire 1689-1690 and Northampton 1690-1694

Upton Magna

Upton Magna is identifiably the "Upton-under-Amon" where John Plimmer (1812-1905) was reportedly born, "Amon" being Haughmond Hill.

Upton Magna is situated on the National Cycle Route 81 between Wellington and Shrewsbury.

Upton Warren

Upton Warren was a Manor, for many years inherited alongside Grafton first in the hands of John de Grafton, then the Staffords, followed by the Talbots and Earls of Shrewsbury.

Upton-West Upton, Massachusetts

Upton includes several school systems: Memorial School, Nipmuc Regional High School, and Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School.

Upton, Baltimore

Pennsylvania Avenue was the premiere shopping strip for black Baltimorians, inspiring comparisons to Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

Upton, Kentucky

It is included in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Upton, Slough

Laid out in 1842, the grounds (a public park as Herschel Park since 1949) are believed to have been designed by Joseph Paxton.

It was the marriage place (7 May 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir William Herschel (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicting Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of Charles Hatchett who discovered niobium.

Winterfold House

He settled in Britain, taking a lease at favourable rates on Upton House at Poole, Dorset in 1961, but there were endless financial problems, and threats of eviction.

WJCR

WJCR-FM, a radio station (90.1 FM) licensed to Upton, Kentucky, United States


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