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Alan Gillett (surveyor)
Alan Henry Puckridge Gillett, OBE (born 30 October 1930) is a chartered surveyor who became Master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. Upon retiring from that occupation in 1995, he became Chairman of the Ealing Hospital NHS Trust and was a visiting professor at Kingston University. He has been active in a variety of other associations and, in 2008, was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the community of Ealing, where he was born and still resides. Early life He was born in Ealing and started his education there at Harvington School, followed by Harrow View Preparatory School. In September 1940, he evacuated with his school to a home near Banbury, Oxfordshire, which now belongs to Michael Heseltine. He subsequently attended Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read land economy. He was also a member of the Footlights drama club and drew cartoons for the student newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Gillett (born 1930), chartered surveyor and civic dignitary
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Alan Gillett may refer to: * Alan Gillett (football) (born 1948), football coach * Alan Gillett (surveyor) Alan Henry Puckridge Gillett, OBE (born 30 October 1930) is a chartered surveyor who became Master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. Upon retiring from that occupation in 1995, he became Chairman of the Ealing Hospital NHS Trus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varsity (Cambridge)
''Varsity'' is the oldest of Cambridge University's main student newspapers. It has been published continuously since 1947 and is one of only three fully independent student newspapers in the UK. It moved back to being a weekly publication in Michaelmas 2015, and is published every Friday during term time. ''Varsity'' has received numerous awards, including repeated recognition at the now defunct ''Guardian'' Student Media Awards. History ''Varsity'' is one of Britain's oldest student newspapers. Its first edition was published on 17 January 1931, as ''Varsity: the Cambridge University Illustrated'' (later ''The Varsity Weekly'', and then the ''Cambridge Varsity Post''. However, the first few years saw ''Varsity'' get off to a shaky start. In 1932, a controversy about some of its stories resulted in the editor being challenged to a duel, and the following year the paper went bankrupt (having lost £100). Revival A variety of attempts to revive ''Varsity'' led to the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perivale
Perivale () is an area of Greater London, west of Charing Cross. It is the smallest of the seven towns which make up the London Borough of Ealing. Perivale is mostly residential, with a library, community centre, a number of parks and open spaces, as well as a large industrial estate. Landmarks include the grade II* listed Art Deco Hoover Building, as well as St Mary's Church (c. 12th century), Horsenden Hill park and Perivale Wood Local Nature Reserve run by the Selborne Society. Perivale forms part of the UB6 postcode area, along with Greenford. Toponymy The name of Perivale was first used in 1508, where it was spelt "Pyryvale". The word seems to be a compound of perie (pear tree) and vale, a wide valley. Until then, Perivale was often called "Little Greenford" or "Greenford Parva", to distinguish it from its larger neighbour Great Greenford. History Origins and early history Historically, it was a parish in the hundred of Elthorne, in the county of Middlesex. Peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's Perivale
St Mary's is a 12th- or 13th-century English re-used church building, during its religious lifetime dedicated to St Mary, in the London suburb of Perivale. It was the smallest of Anglican churches in the dissolved county of Middlesex, excluding the City of London. It became separated from almost all of its parish's population by the development and heavy traffic on the A40 trunk road so that the parish was dissolved and church disbanded in 1972. It was adopted by a charitable organisation formed from the local community, the Friends of St Mary, and it functions as an arts centre, holding local exhibitions and performances of classical music. The church is built of rag-stone and flint, and its tower is unusual, being clad in white weatherboarding. It contains a chime of three bells, all cast in 1949 as a World War II memorial for the war dead of the community and small parish as a whole. The church was Grade I listed in 1950. See also Elthorne Hundred: its parishes map showing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ealing Symphony Orchestra
Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan. Ealing was historically in the county of Middlesex. Until the urban expansion of London in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, it was a rural village. Improvement in communications with London, culminating with the opening of the railway station in 1838, shifted the local economy to market garden supply and eventually to suburban development. By 1902 Ealing had become known as the "Queen of the Suburbs" due to its greenery, and because it was halfway between city and country. As part of the growth of London in the 20th century, Ealing significantly expanded and increased in population. It became a municipal borough in 1901 and part of Greater London in 1965. It is now a significant commercial and retail centre with a developed night-time econom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Wall
A party wall (occasionally parti-wall or parting wall, also known as common wall or as a demising wall) is a dividing partition between two adjoining buildings that is shared by the occupants of each residence or business. Typically, the builder lays the wall along a property line dividing two terraced houses, so that one half of the wall's thickness lies on each side. This type of wall is usually structural. Party walls can also be formed by two abutting walls built at different times. The term can be also used to describe a division between separate units within a multi-unit apartment complex. Very often the wall in this case is non-structural but designed to meet established criteria for sound and/or fire protection, i.e. a firewall. Waterproofing A waterproofing membrane can extend 6" up a demising walls as well as under the wall. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramus And Thisbe Club
The Pyramus and Thisbe Club was founded in 1974 to bring together Surveying, surveyors and architects with a professional interest in party wall matters, especially related to the Party Wall etc. Act 1996. The club is named after the Shakespearean characters Pyramus_and_Thisbe#A_Midsummer_Night.27s_Dream, Pyramus and Thisbe, the two lovers who were separated by a wall in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. The Club has published a book called ''The Party Wall Act Explained'' (ISBN 9780955845406) which is often referred to as The Green Book, and was referred to in the House of Lords during the debate leading up to the Party Wall etc Act in January 1996. References External links * {{official website, http://www.partywalls.org.uk/ Gyle-Thompson and Others v Wall Street. (Properties) Ltd Professional associations based in the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1974 Architecture-related professional associations 1974 establishments in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellow
A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher educational institutions, a fellow can be a member of a highly ranked group of teachers at a particular college or university or a member of the governing body in some universities (such as the Fellows of Harvard College); it can also be a specially selected postgraduate student who has been appointed to a post (called a fellowship) granting a stipend, research facilities and other privileges for a fixed period (usually one year or more) in order to undertake some advanced study or research, often in return for teaching services. In the context of research and development-intensive large companies or corporations, the title "fellow" is sometimes given to a small number of senior scientists and engineers. In the context of medical education in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the modern area named London has since grown far beyond the City of London boundary. The City is now only a small part of the metropolis of Greater London, though it remains a notable part of central London. Administratively, the City of London is not one of the London boroughs, a status reserved for the other 32 districts (including Greater London's only other city, the City of Westminster). It is also a separate ceremonial county, being an enclave surrounded by Greater London, and is the smallest ceremonial county in the United Kingdom. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City (differentiated from the phrase "the city of London" by ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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