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7 unusual facts about Wandsworth


Ashcroft Technology Academy

Ashcroft Technology Academy, formerly ADT College, is a state secondary school within the English academy programme in Wandsworth, London, England.

Freemans

A year later, newly named Freemans of London moved to larger premises at 215 Lavender Hill, Wandsworth.

Putney Sculpture Trail

Putney Sculpture Trail encompasses nine sculptures by British sculptor Alan Thornhill which are permanently publicly sited along the south side of the River Thames to either side of Putney Bridge, in the borough of Wandsworth.

Queen's Regiment

In 1971 the 6th (Volunteer) and 7th (Volunteer) Battalions were formed with headquarters at Wandsworth and Horsham respectively.

Rock Goddess

The band was formed in Wandsworth, South London in 1977, by sisters Jody Turner (guitar and vocals) and Julie Turner (drums) when they were thirteen and nine years old respectively.

Wandsworth

A green plaque to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the site of Roe's first workshop in the stables of his brother's house at 47, West Hill.

However, brewing stopped in September 2006 when Young & Co merged its operations with Charles Wells of Bedford.


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.

Artisan Records

Artisan Records is a British record label owned by the Indie rock band fin (band) based in Wandsworth, South West London.

Cameron Bridge

In 1989 Cameronbridge also changed from being solely a large-scale grain whisky distillery into a ‘dual-purpose’ site, when United Distillers’ Grain Neutral Spirit operation was transferred to Fife from Wandsworth in London.

Croydon parks and open spaces

The River Wandle is also a major tributary of the River Thames, where it stretches to Wandsworth and Putney for 9 miles (14 km) from its main source in Waddon.

Frances Jane Pringle

In July 1900, in Wandsworth London, she married Albert Mansbridge (1876 - 1952) and they had a son, Thomas John, a year later.

Henry Jackson

Sir Henry Jackson, 1st Baronet (1875–1937), British Conservative MP for Wandsworth Central

Inner South London Line

The South Cross Route, one side of the London Motorway Box, the innermost ring road of the unbuilt 1960s London Ringways plan, would have paralleled the line between Wandsworth Road and Peckham Rye.

Marshall Clifton

On 2 July 1811, Waller, as he was known, married Elinor Bell (of Wandle House, Wandsworth, London, who was first cousin to Elizabeth Fry, the famous prison reformer).

Merton Abbey Mills

The River Wandle flowing north towards Wandsworth drove watermills and provided water for a number of industrial processes in Merton.

Metallic Spheres

The album was produced by Youth and recorded in June, 2009 at "The Dreaming Cave", in Wandsworth.

Paul Myners, Baron Myners

He graduated from the University of London, with a First Class Honours degree in Education and a Certificate in Education (teaching qualification), and became a secondary school teacher in Wandsworth with the Inner London Education Authority (1971–72).

Ronnie Gibbons

Although born in Wandsworth, Gibbons was eligible for the Republic of Ireland as her grandparents were from Galway and County Mayo.

Sidney Richard Percy

He moved after his 1857 marriage to the Florence Villas on Inner Park Road in Wandsworth, Surrey, and then moved his family about 1863 to Hill House in the village of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

Sir Richard Braham, 1st Baronet

Braham was the son of Richard Braham, or Breame, of New Windsor, Berkshire, and of Wandsworth, Surrey and his wife Elizabeth Giles, daughter of Nathaniel Giles, Doctor of Music.

Southside Wandsworth

In the 1990s the centre was owned by Fordgate Wandsworth Limited, owned by Fordgate (a large property company who at the time owned similar developments including the Pallasades centre in Birmingham), and ultimately by property investors Moises and Mendi Gertner.

Southside opened in 1971 as the Wandsworth Arndale Centre, and was the largest of the UK-wide chain of Arndale Centres with 110 shops.

The Borough of Wandsworth Rifle Club

It was in the following year that the club was renamed to the Borough of Wandsworth Rifle Club and the borough council granted a piece of land near the River Wandle of approximately two acres at a nominal rent for the erection of an indoor and outdoor range.

Wandsworth by-election, 1913

At the 1885 general election, Sir Henry Kimber was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth.

Wandsworth railway station

Wandsworth Town railway station, serves Wandsworth Town Centre and Southside shopping centre

Wandsworth Whirlwinds

Wandsworth Whirlwinds are a junior and academy Rugby League club based in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

William Marwood

Kate Webster, an Irish servant woman who murdered her employer; hanged at Wandsworth Prison, London, on 29 July 1879.


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