Settlement Association

[johnnychips]

One of the 2010 nominees for the BAFTA TV award for Best Supporting Actor was also born in Easterhouse

Who and whom, out of interest?

 

[godfreycomplex]

Who and whom, out of interest?

Matthew Macfadyen (Yarmouth) & Gary Lewis (Easterhouse)

 

[johnnychips]

Thank you so much that was most interesting.

Many politicians have visited Easterhouse to study its poor conditions. One of whom was Tony Blair, who once lived in Downing St, Westminster.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Battle is another settlement where an abbey was erected.

 

[John Griffiths]

The influential cookery author Eliza Acton was born in Battle in 1799 and died at Hampstead in London in 1859.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tunbridge Wells also has natural chalybeate waters within its environs.

 

[John Griffiths]

Henrietta Maria, the consort of King Charles I, helped popularize Tunbridge Wells by frequenting the spa; she had married Charles in 1625 and the couple spent their first night together in Canterbury, at the palace of St Augustine's.

 

[johnnychips]

Whereas the author Joseph Conrad is buried at Canterbury, the author Agatha Christie is buried at Cholsey . Not much of a connection, you might think, but they both have the same inscription on their tombstones from Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queen’.

 

[godfreycomplex]

A Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom also resided in Trebetherick

 

[Springs Branch]

Rock is also in the PL27 Postcode District.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Padstow also lies on the line of the River Camel

 

[John Griffiths]

Rick Stein runs a number of restaurants in Padstow; although he is associated with fish cookery, he was born (relatively) far from the sea, at Churchill, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashton-on-Mersey also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Ealing, London was also the birthplace of a cast member of the radio series Radio Timperley

 

[John Griffiths]

Brentham in Ealing was the first place to be developed on co-partnership principles (a form of co-operative housing provision). The Moor Pool estate in Harborne, Birmingham is another co-partnership development.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Townhead in the Glasgow area also saw the Passionists establish a religious place of worship.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

70 Parson Street, Townhead is the birthplace of architect Charles Rennie MacIntosh. Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies. With his wife Margaret, he moved to the Suffolk village of Walberswick in 1914. There Mackintosh was accused of being a German spy and briefly arrested in 1915 during the First World War.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walpole in Suffolk also lies on the line of the River Blythe.

 

[John Griffiths]

Walpole is linked by the 532 bus to Beccles

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Chesterford in Essex is another settlement where items of Belgic pottery have been unearthed.

 

[John Griffiths]

The Icknield Way long distance path also passes through Letchworth.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Darlington also had Quaker involvement in the area land purchases of the town.

 

[Springs Branch]

In the heyday of municipal bus operations, Darlington Corporation buses were painted cream and blue.
Prior to formation of the PTEs, the same two colours were used for the livery of buses in Rochdale.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I seem to be having difficulties making a posting...I will try again.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Don Estelle, who was born and brought up in Crumpsall, lived for much of his life in Rochdale and was buried there in August 2003.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lytham has also been noted for hosting microbewery beer festivals in olden days.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Fylde RUFC play at the Woodlands Memorial Ground on Blackpool Road in Ansdell (between Lytham and St Annes). The first team play in the National League 2 North, as do Caldy RFC. Their home ground is Paton Field in Thurstaston on the Wirral Peninsula.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wilmslow also has a church that is dedicated to St Bartholemew.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

William Ewart Gladstone FRS, FSS (1809 – 1898) politician, statesman and Prime Minister at four separate times, lived at the Wilmslow Rectory between January and April 1828 to study under the supervision of Reverend John Turner. He died on 19th May 1898 at Hawarden Castle, Hawarden, aged 88.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broughton in Flintshire was also once administered by the ancient Anglo-Saxon Hundred of Atiscross.