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2 unusual facts about Ware, Hertfordshire


Joan and Peter

Peter later attends Caxton, and Oswald moves to a home at Pelham Ford, in Ware, Hertfordshire.

Zephaniah Platt

He was a direct descendant of Richard Platt (1603–1684), who was born in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, and settled in the Connecticut Colony.


4206 Verulamium

The asteroid was discovered on August 25, 1986, and is named after the Celtic and later Roman town of Verulamium, near what is now the city of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, southern England.

A1010 road

The route is featured in William Cowper's 1782 comic ballad The Diverting History of John Gilpin, which describes the chaotic progress of the hero along the road from London to Ware and back, failing twice to stop his borrowed horse at his intended destination, the Bell in Edmonton.

ANCC

All Nations Christian College, a missions college, located in Hertfordshire and validated by the Open University

Arts Educational Schools, London

The school was first based in premises at Stratford Place in London, but following the outbreak of World War II, the school was relocated to Tring in Hertfordshire, where it shared premises with the Rothschild Bank in the mansion at Tring Park.

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Baron Scales

The Scales family's main residences were Middleton in Norfolk, Newsells in Hertfordshire and Rivenhall in Essex but also held other lands including Ouresby and Torneton in Lincolnshire.

Benjamin Truman

Truman was buried in the Churchyard of St Mary's, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire.

BFI National Archive

The J. Paul Getty, Jr. Conservation Centre in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, named after its benefactor, is the base for much of the restoration work, while approximately 140 million feet of unstable nitrate film and all the master film collection held on acetate or other media is kept separately at a BFI storage site at Gaydon in Warwickshire.

Brickearth

Commercially useful deposits of about 2m to 4m thick are present in Kent, Hertfordshire and Hampshire, overlying chalk, Thanet Beds or London Clay.

Ceramics of Jalisco

The Tonalá tradition became known as “Tonalá ware” “Polished ornamental ware” or “Guadalajara polychrome.” A number of these pieces were exported Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, mostly to Spain but examples reached Italy and other areas.

Chantry Island

Chantry Island, Hertfordshire, a small piece of land in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Cheshunt railway station

Cheshunt railway station serves the town of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, England.

Claire Loewenfeld

The Loewenfelds had made arrangements in advance for their belongings to be transported to England and for their children to be evacuated to an English boarding school, St Christopher School, Letchworth, Hertfordshire.

Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom

Angaelos, General Bishop & Patriarchal Exarch for the Youth Ministry at the Patriarchal Center and the Coptic Orthodox Theological College at Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England.

Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber

Faber was the eldest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.

English Chamber Choir

The English Chamber Choir came into existence in 1972 its earliest engagements included Haydn's Nelson Mass, Fauré's Requiem and Kodály 's Laudes Organi with Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, and live performances at the old Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, of the rock-opera Tommy with The Who.

Frederick Lambart, 9th Earl of Cavan

Lord Cavan died at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, in July 1900, aged 60, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Frederick.

Girton, Cambridgeshire

It lies about two miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Cambridge University's Girton College, a pioneer in women's education, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872.

Haji ware

During a 2007 underwater archaeology survey on Ojikajima by the Asian Research Institute of Underwater Archaeology, examples of Chinese ceramics and Haji ware was recovered.

Hertfordshire Chorus

Hertfordshire Chorus is renowned for its innovative programming, frequently involving commissions such as "Mass in Blue" and "Ode to a Nightingale" by Will Todd, "Ice" by Orlando Gough and "Solaris" by Steve Block.

Hertfordshire County Football Association

Proposing the toast to the Hertfordshire FA was Sir Stanley Rous, Secretary of The Football Association, who ten years prior to his appointment to football's top job was a member of the Hertfordshire FA Council.

John Southerden Burn

In 1854 a new partner, Charles Tayler Ware, joined the firm; in the following year, after Stables's death, Burn retired from practice, and lived at The Grove in Henley-on-Thames.

Knebworth railway station

Knebworth railway station serves the village of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England.

Leonard Ware

Soon after, Bechet teamed Ware with fellow guitarist Jimmy Shirley, making the group perhaps the first to include two electric guitars.

Live at the Palais

The album reunited Nesmith with drummer John Ware, whom he'd worked with on the albums Magnetic South, Loose Salute, and Nevada Fighter, and also marked one of his first collaborations with guitarist John Jorgenson and keyboardist John Hobbs; both would play in the group The Hellecasters with help from Nesmith.

Manx Independent

Stan Corlett (Director at Mercantile) previously served as a councillor for Wokingham and had also taught economics at Ashridge Business School in Hertfordshire returned to the Isle of Man in 1976 at the age of 43 with the mission of finding a way to "Give a voice to the Manx people".

Maynard Pittendreigh

Pittendreigh attended Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina, Ware Shoals (SC) High School, and received his BA degree at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina.

Minoan pottery

In EM IIA, the geometric slip-painted designs of Koumasa Ware seem to have developed from the wares of Aghios Onouphrios.

Mop wedding

One explanation for the unique name of the Mops & Brooms public house in Well End, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire is that it commemorates mop and broomstick weddings which once took place there.

Nathaniel Vincent

He was ejected in 1662, after which he lived three years as chaplain to Sir Henry and Lady Blount at Tyttenhanger House, Hertfordshire.

Phillip Cottrell

Phillip was born in Enfield, United Kingdom, but he grew up in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, where he was a pupil at Cheshunt School.

Rex Cinema

The Rex, Berkhamsted, a Grade II listed cinema in Hertfordshire, England, UK

Rothamsted

Rothamsted Manor, a former manor near Harpenden in English county of Hertfordshire.

Sawbridgeworth railway station

Sawbridgeworth railway station serves the town of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, England.

Shigaraki ware

In the later half of the Heian period, Sue ware production came to an abrupt decline, with production now centralizing in the Owari, Mino, Bizen, and Omi provinces.

Spaceknights

In Annihilation: Conquest Prologue, Galadorian ships and Spaceknights appear over the Kree homeworld Hala where the space hero Peter Quill (Star-Lord) has arranged for them to demonstrate a new defense program known as "A-ware".

Stansted Transit

Stansted Transit operated 22 bus routes, in Essex and on the Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders, as well as many school bus contracts tendered by Essex County Council.

Terry Buffalo Ware

In 2003, Ware and the legendary singer-songwriter Bob Childers recorded Two Buffalos Walking-Live at The Blue Door.

The Damnation of Theron Ware

The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic.

Theobalds House

Theobalds Palace (also known as Theobalds House), located in Cedars Park, just outside Cheshunt in the English county of Hertfordshire, was a prominent stately home and (later) royal palace of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Thomas Bradock

The advowson of Great Munden in Hertfordshire was granted 11 July 1604 to a certain Thomas Nicholson upon trust to present it to Bradock.

Thomas Nevill

She died 25 December 1575, and was buried in the Church of St Giles at Wyddial, Hertfordshire, where there is a memorial brass commemorating her.

Volker Ignaz Schmidt

Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England).

Ware Shoals High School

Ware Shoals High School is a high school located in Ware Shoals, South Carolina.

Welwyn North railway station

Welwyn North railway station serves the villages of Digswell and Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England.

Wilbur Ware

In 2012, Ware's widow produced and released a collection of previously unreleased studio tracks made with trumpeter Don Cherry, under the title Wilbur Ware: Super Bass.

William Lee Antonie

The son of Sir William Lee, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and brother of Harriet Lee, he lived at Totteridge Park, formerly in Hertfordshire and owned Colworth House near Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire.


see also

The Roulettes

Norman Stracey - Rhythm Guitar, also Keyboard (born 1941, Ware, Hertfordshire) (replaced Jones in the band when a saxophone player was no longer required)