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Canton Road Station

Canton Road Station (Trad. Chinese: 廣東道站) was a planned railway station on the Kowloon Southern Link of West Rail Line between East Tsim Sha Tsui Station and Austin Station, beneath the shopping mall, Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui, by replacing the existing underground car park.

Gaby Rado

It is believed that he fell from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, into the car park below where he was found in what appeared to be an accident unconnected with any military activity.

Hythe Bridge

This used to continue south of Hythe Bridge Street to a basin with wharves that in 1951 was filled in and is now a car park and part of Nuffield College.

Metrovacesa

The interests of the three constituent companies were largely confined to residential and office property, but the newly merged entity expanded across Spain and moved into other assets such as shopping centres and car parks.

Stanley Street, Singapore

On the left side of the street, it is mainly conserved shophouses and on the right, car park entrances to Cecil Street buildings.

Sydney Works

It has seen a variety of uses, and occupies a prominent site beside the Porter Brook, surrounded by car parks.


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Alejandro Zohn

Among his numerous other designs in Guadalajara, the most notable are the Banco Refaccionario de Jalisco (1973), the Plaza del Sol, the 'Mulbar' shopping centre and car park and the Archivo del Estado de Jalisco building (1989).

Alison Prince

Alison Prince wrote in late 2013 that she was working on a children's book about the second phase of the English Civil War and on a biography of Richard III, whose remains had recently been dug up in a Leicester car park.

Assassination of Pim Fortuyn

Fortuyn was 54 years old when he was assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf in a car park outside a radio studio where Fortuyn had just given an interview to Ruud de Wild at 3FM.

Bridgehouses railway station

Part of the station site is now used as a car park and part of the retaining wall along Nursery Street has been demolished to make way for the northern section of Sheffield's Inner Ring Road.

Cannock Chase

This occurred in March 2004 when the ex-England footballer Stan Collymore was revealed in a News of the World investigation, to have regularly engaged in the activity at a car park near Anson's Bank.

Cape Point

The Flying Dutchman Funicular runs from a car park to the north up to slightly below the level of the old lighthouse and a short flight of steps leads to a viewing platform around the base of the lighthouse.

Caserta railway station

From the bus station at the nearby underground car park, many buses leave for neighboring destinations such as Capodrise, Portico di Caserta, Curti, Capua, Santa Maria Capua Vetere and many others.

Cooper's Square

If approved, the plans will see the centre extending into what is currently the car park, and also into the area occupied by shops on nearby station street (The Royal Bank of Scotland, A dry cleaners, two estate agents and a night club.), which will be demolished and subsequently rebuilt remodelled with a new facade.

Darren Drysdale

He attracted some media attention in 2007 after Bradford City's Dean Windass received a five match ban for swearing at him in the car park after a home game against Brentford on 2 January.

Dewi Sant Hospital

The tunnel mouth of Pontypridd Graig railway station, not used since 1930, is situated in the car park.

Dulwich Park

Cars have not been permitted to drive inside the park since 2003, with the exception of disabled badge holders, but there is a free car park at the College Road entrance.

Fareham railway station

The bay platform for services to Alton via the closed Meon Valley Line was on the opposite (car park) side of this platform, a short siding is all that remains at the north end of platform 3.

Fawkner railway station

Fawkner is located in the Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, west of Sydney Road, with station access from the pedestrian crossing from the station's car park.

Faxi

Faxi can be found around twelve kilometres from Geysir and Gullfoss, and eight kilometres from Skalholt, away from the main road on a gravel track which includes a picnic area and a small car park.

Gerard Weston

Seven days later, Father Weston drew up in his Morris Traveller car at the car-park of the Officers' Mess of the 16th Parachute Brigade in Aldershot.

Glenn Trimble

He is reputed to have hit a six in a first grade Final at the Gabba which went over the old Clem Jones Stand and landed in a car park on the southern side of Stanley Street.

Glossop railway station

The other platforms and redundant station buildings were incorporated into an extension for the next door Co-op supermarket and car park, now owned by The Co-operative Group.

Hang Lung

Hang Lung Group: a Hong Kong listed company in property development, car park management, property management and dry-cleaning businesses, and the parent company of Hang Lung Properties.

Kangaroo Flat railway station

A $350,000 upgrade of the station was announced in February 2008, involved the construction of a new booking office, 50 bay car park, bus interchange, and refurbishment of the waiting room.

Kelvinbridge subway station

The station has a car park, built on the site of the goods yard at Kelvinbridge on the Stobcross to Maryhill Central line.

Kilburn White Horse

A tablet erected at the car park below it reads, "The Kilburn 'White Horse' -- This figure was cut in 1857 on the initiative of Thomas Taylor, a native of Kilburn. In 1925 a restoration fund was subscribed by the readers of the Yorkshire Evening Post and the residue of £100 was invested to provide for the triennial grooming of the figure."

Leeds Road

The point once occupied by the centre spot is now marked by a plaque in the car park, outside B&Q.

Llannerch-y-medd

Its station, opened in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its goods yard is now a car park.

Llyn Geirionydd

This car park site was once a waste tip site for the Pandora mine above, and indeed the planting of conifers in the area of the lake has considerably softened the effects of mining.

London Buses route 108

Since takeover by Harris, the 108 has been diverted via North Greenwich, but reverted to a more direct route across Blackheath via Prince of Wales Road; the frequency has been further enhanced to every 10 minutes, utilising four earlier Excels made redundant by the loss of car park services at Lakeside Shopping Centre, but this is still not as good as the 5 minute double deck service provided in 1933.

Lorong Chuan MRT Station

In June 2003, Singapore Land Authority (SLA) offered Chuan Park (a 99-year leasehold condo near the site of the station) residents S$1 for 220 sq m of land, which comprised mainly car park lots.

Morden Park

In 2008, Merton Council proposed allowing Goals Soccer Centres, to build 10 five-a-side football pitches, 4 seven-a-side football pitches, 1 full-size football pitch, 2 multi-sport areas, and 2 full-size football pitches (with all bar the latter using astroturf, floodlighting and be available for a fee), a car park (with a capacity for up to 99 cars) and a clubhouse with a licensed bar on part of the park.

Morriston

The heart of transport in Morriston is located in the town centre, which contains a large car park, a wealth of parking spaces within the hear of the retail district, contains numerous bus stops ranging of bus services to nearby Swansea, Clydach, Parc Gwernfadog, other areas of Morriston and even to mid-Wales and England.

Mount Dobson

Located 2.25 hours from Christchurch and 3 hours from Queenstown, it claims an easy access road, the highest car park of any ski resort in New Zealand, and the earliest start to the season in 2006.

Narita International Airport Corporation

Facility leasing: Leases counter space, retail and office space, cargo warehouses, car park space and other property.

National Car Parks

In October 1948, Ronald Hobson founded Central Car Parks, joined by his partner Sir Donald Gosling after the pair invested £200 in a bombsite in Holborn, central London to create a car park.

New York Central Tugboat 16

On 2 July 2006, the tugboat was demolished because of the building of a CVS Pharmacy and car park on the site.

Northfield railway station

The station has a small car park provided free by Centro and a bus stop which is served by the number 19 operated by Diamond Bus.

Nothing Ever Happens

Its commentary relates to how oblivious most of us are to the world around us e.g. "the Martians could land in the car park and no one would care" but in its last line before the chorus becomes suddenly cynical..."they'll burn down the Synagogues at six o'clock and we'll all go along like before," which is a reference to Kristallnacht.

OWLS AC Leicester

The club traditionally meets at Bradgate Park (Newtown Linford Car Park, 10am) on a Sunday morning for a run around some of the nicest parkland and trails in the UK.

Praia de São Rafael

To the back of the beach there is a car park of which some places there are allocated parking bays for disabled drivers displaying a European blue badge.

Regent Centre Interchange

The car park stairwell also features a mural called Have You Paid and Displayed? created by Nic Armstrong.

RFUEA Ground

Bougainvillia shrubs were laid along the fence, four rows of trees were planted on the Eastern side of the ground to act as a windbreak and the car-park was levelled.

Sarah Webb Gosling

She married multi-millionaire Adam Gosling, a son of the former car park tycoon Sir Donald Gosling in 2009.

Schoolhill railway station

Closed in 1937, the few remains of the station lie adjacent to His Majesty's Theatre's car park.

Snaefell

Walkers often use the car park on this road near the Bungalow railway station (last railway stop before the summit) from which there is a rough path to the peak.

State Cinema

The same month Thurrock Council gave planning permission to supermarket chain Morrisons to build a store on the State's old car park after purchasing the site for £10 million.

Stuttgart Österfeld station

Attached to the station is a park-and-ride car park with 500 places, which is directly accessible from the A 831 autobahn.

Tipton Five Ways railway station

The site of the station was incorporated into the car park of Bean Industries in 1990 and remained part of the factory's land until they closed down in 2005.

Tsang Yam-pui

As early as June 2003, New World Development wanted to convert the Wan Chai Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre car park into a used car venue.

Walton Hill

The car park is most easily accessed from A456 road via Hagley Wood Lane (leaving it between Hagley and Hayley Green) or Uffmoor Lane (leaving it just east of Hayley Green).

War Memorial Park, Coventry

Travel de Courcey (in conjunction with Coventry City Council and Centro PTE) operates a Park and ride scheme between this car park and Coventry city centre.

West Street subway station

The east side of Shields Road car park is closer to West Street than Shields Road.