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unusual facts about York Road, Lambeth



Alfred Cope

Cope was raised in Lambeth (Waterloo), London, the eldest of eleven children born to Alfred and Margaret.

Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon

She died in Lambeth, and was later buried with her father at Saint Nicholas Churchyard in Arundel.

Baron Lang

Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864-1945), 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury

Brixton Artists Collective

Ceramics exhibitors included such diverse names as Kate Mellors, Sarah Radstone, Julian Stair and Pamela Mei Yee Leung many of whom were Lambeth based and encouraged to exhibit by sculptor Keith King.

Brush Electrical Machines

As the business grew in Lambeth due to the demand for new electrical apparatus, larger premises were required and the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation moved 100 miles north to the Falcon Works at Loughborough in 1889.

Charles Purnell

Purnell was born in Lambeth, London, England, where he received his education at private schools.

Charles Southwell

He had entered the Owenite movement through the Lambeth branch after he had made a reputation for himself as an anti-theological lecturer on Kennington Common.

Christ Church, Lambeth

Christ Church, Lambeth, was founded by the Rev Dr Christopher Newman Hall in the 1870s as a Congregational chapel forming part of a complex of new mission buildings, including the Lincoln Tower and a new premises for Hawkstone Hall.

Christ Church, Southwark

Its jurisdiction was outside that of the Bishop of Winchester's 'Liberty of the Clink' to its east and the Archbishop of Canterbury's Manor of Lambeth to its west.

Colombians in the United Kingdom

Despite this, the largest numbers can be found in the boroughs of Lambeth, Islington, Southwark and Camden.

Courtney Browne

Courtney Oswald Browne (born 7 December 1970 in Lambeth, England) is a Barbadian cricketer.

Edgar Crow Baker

Baker was born in Lambeth, then part of Surrey, England, the son of Edward William Whitley Baker, and was educated at the Royal Hospital School in Greenwich.

Edmund Griffith

On the death of Bishop David Dolben he was elected bishop of Bangor on 31 December 1633, confirmed on 12 February 1634, consecrated on 16 February at Lambeth by Archbishop William Laud, and enthroned on 14 April.

Fred Blackman

Frederick Ernest "Fred" Blackman (born 8 February 1884 in Kennington, Lambeth, Greater London) was a professional footballer, who played for Brighton & Hove Albion, Huddersfield Town and Leeds City.

Henry Maudslay

He had trained in shipbuilding at Northfleet and, with Joshua Field, became a partner in his father's firm, trading as Maudslay, Sons and Field of North Lambeth.

Henry Tang illegal basement controversy

Following media allegations of illegal structures at the Kowloon Tong residence, Tang backtracked and admitted on 13 February 2012 that there was an unauthorized structure at his home at No. 5A York Road in the form of a canopy above the garage.

Herbert Campbell

Campbell was born in Lambeth to Henry George Story and his wife Hanna Fisher and was educated in west London.

Born in Lambeth, Campbell started his performing career appearing in the amateur nigger band and quickly toured London's music hall's during the early 1860s.

Hochschild Kohn's

Later expansion included stores at York Road and Belvedere Avenue in the northern suburbs of Baltimore in 1948, known as the Hochschild, Kohn Belvedere store, and at Harundale Mall south of the city.

Jacob Duché

In consequence, Duché fled to England, where he was appointed chaplain to the Lambeth orphan asylum, and soon made a reputation as an eloquent preacher.

Jennifer Hedger

A native of London, Ontario, Hedger grew up in Lambeth and Westminster, Ontario and later graduated from the University of Western Ontario.

Jim Dickson

Politically he is identified with the right wing of the Labour Party and was leading Lambeth's Labour Group when it was described as "more New Labour than New Labour" by then Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

John Matthew Wilson Young

He married Augusta Frushard (1820; Lambeth - 1902; Lincoln), youngest daughter of Philip Frushard (13 October 1783 India - 5 July 1837 Durham), the Governor of Durham Gaol, and Anna Maria Pewsey his wife, on 8 July 1851 at St. Paul's Church, Deptford, Kent.

Kenneth Kirk

As a result, at the time of the independence of the Anglican Church in India from the Church of England, Kirk was a leader of the Anglo-Catholic party at Lambeth in 1948 that warned the Church from compromising its catholicity by adopting intercommunion too quickly, when not all of the clergy of the United Church of South India would have received episcopal ordination.

Keppel Harcourt Barnard

He was the only son of Harcourt George Barnard M.A. (Cantab.), a solicitor from Lambeth, and Anne Elizabeth Porter of Royston.

Lambeth Articles

The Lambeth Articles were a series of nine doctrinal statements drawn up by Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift in 1595, in order to define Calvinist doctrine with regard to predestination and justification.

Lambeth Cemetery

Lambeth cemetery is said to house 250,000 burials and was associated with Victorian music hall artists, notables including the comedians Dan Leno and Stanley Lupino.

Lambeth Homilies

The Lambeth Homilies are a collection of homilies found in a manuscript (MS Lambeth 487) in the Lambeth Palace Library in Lambeth, England.

Lambeth parks and open spaces

Lambeth is a riverside borough, and one of the largest open spaces is the Thames itself, forming the northern boundary of the borough.

Lambeth, London, Ontario

The Byron Telephone Company had installed its first automatic dial exchange in Lambeth in the late 1950s, the Oliver 2 exchange, which replaced the manual magneto phone system that continued to operate in the Byron area until September 1963.

London Borough of Lambeth

Lambeth also has twinning arrangements with Bluefields in Nicaragua; Moskvoretsky in Russia (although this is abeyance since changes to the city government of Moscow); Brooklyn, New York in the United States; Shinjuku in Japan; and Spanish Town in Jamaica.

Pennsylvania Route 332

PA 332 begins at an intersection with PA 263 (York Road) in Hatboro, Montgomery County, heading east on Montgomery Avenue, a two-lane undivided roadway.

Portuguese in the United Kingdom

Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth and Westminster are all noted for their large Portuguese-speaking communities, the majority of these speakers are Portuguese immigrants who work in the catering and hotels industry.

Race and crime in the United Kingdom

Operation Trident was set up in March 1998 by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community after black-on-black shootings in Lambeth and Brent.

Reg Thomas

Today, he runs a farm and produce market just outside of Lambeth, Ontario.

Reginald Kenneth Thomas (born April 21, 1953 in Lambeth, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played primarily in the World Hockey Association.

Solid HarmoniE

Initially, the band was made up of the trio Rebecca Onslow (born 3 January 1975, Swansea in Wales), Melissa Graham (born 10 October 1975, Coventry in England), who was playing in a popular Irish band called Calvary in 1996, and Mariama Goodman (born 25 December 1977, Lambeth in London, England).

Ted Pooley

Edward William 'Ted' Pooley (born 13 February 1842 at Chepstow, Monmouthshire; died 18 July 1907 at Lambeth, London) was an English cricketer.

The Lambeth Walk

One of photographer Bill Brandt's most well-known pictures is "Dancing the Lambeth Walk", originally published in 1943 in the magazine Picture Post.

Thomas Malory

The argument was based on a will made at Papworth on 16 September 1469 and proved at Lambeth on 27 October of the same year.

Thomas T. Minor

It was while living at Lambeth that Minor murdered George Merrett, for which crime he was found criminally insane and confined for the rest of his life at Broadmoor Hospital.

Tovi the Proud

It was at Tovi's wedding at Lambeth on 8 June 1042 that King Harthacnut suddenly died of a convulsion "while standing at his drink".

Verulam House, St Albans

It became a maternity hospital and a facility for training pupil midwives by the General Lying-In Hospital which had been evacuated from York Road, Lambeth, (Waterloo), in central London.


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