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Battersea Fields
Battersea Park is a 200-acre (83-hectare) green space at Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London. It is situated on the south bank of the River Thames opposite Chelsea and was opened in 1858. The park occupies marshland reclaimed from the Thames and land formerly used for market gardens. The park is Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. History Prior to 1846, the area now covered by the park was known as Battersea fields, a popular spot for duelling. On 21 March 1829, the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchilsea met on Battersea fields to settle a matter of honour. When it came time to fire, the duke aimed his duelling pistol wide and Winchilsea fired his into the air. Winchilsea later wrote the duke a groveling apology. Separated from the river by a narrow raised causeway, the fields consisted of low, fertile marshes intersected by streams and ditches with the chief crops being carrots, melons, lavender (all the way up to Lave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battersea
Battersea is a large district in south London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and extends along the south bank of the River Thames. It includes the Battersea Park. History Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving Anglo-Saxon geographical accounts as ''Badrices īeg'' meaning "Badric's Island" and later "Patrisey". As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains the lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams. Alongside this was the Heathwall tide mill in the north-east with a very long mill pond regularly draining and filling to the south. The settlement appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Patricesy'', a vast manor held by St Peter's Abbey, Westminster. Its ''Domesday'' Assets were: 18 hides and 17 ploughlands of cultivated land; 7 mills worth £42 9s 8d per year, of meadow, woodland worth 50 hogs. It rendered (in total): £75 9s 8d. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cubitt
Thomas Cubitt (25 February 1788 – 20 December 1855) was a British master builder, notable for his employment in developing many of the historic streets and squares of London, especially in Belgravia, Pimlico and Bloomsbury. His great-great-great grand daughter is Queen Camilla. Background The son of a Norfolk carpenter, he journeyed to India as ship's carpenter from which he earned sufficient funds to start his own building firm in 1810 on Gray's Inn Road, London where he was one of the first builders to have a 'modern' system of employing all the trades under his own management. Work Cubitt's first major building was the London Institution in Finsbury Circus, built in 1815. After this he worked primarily on speculative housing at Camden Town, Islington, and especially at Highbury Park, Stoke Newington. His development of areas of Bloomsbury, including Gordon Square and Tavistock Square, began in 1820, for a group of landowners including the Duke of Bedford. He was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Kennington
Eric Henri Kennington (12 March 1888 – 13 April 1960) was an English sculptor, artist and illustrator, and an official war artist in both World Wars. As a war artist, Kennington specialised in depictions of the daily hardships endured by soldiers and airmen. In the inter-war years he worked mostly on portraits and a number of book illustrations. The most notable of his book illustrations were for T. E. Lawrence's ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom''. Kennington was also a gifted sculptor, best known for his 24th East Surrey Division War Memorial in Battersea Park, for his work on the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and for the effigy of Lawrence at Wareham in Dorset. Biography Early life Kennington was born in Chelsea, London, the second son of the genre and portrait painter, Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856–1916), a founder member of the New English Art Club. He was educated at St Paul's School and the Lambeth School of Art. Kennington first exhibited at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th East Surrey Division War Memorial
The 24th Division War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Battersea Park, London. The unusual avant-garde design by Eric Kennington, his first public commission, was unveiled in 1924. It became a Grade II* listed building in 2005. The memorial commemorates the service of the 24th Division, a British infantry division which served on the Western Front in the First World War. The Division was raised in September 1914 as part of Lord Kitchener's New Army, and served on the Western Front, in the Battle of Loos in 1915, through the Battle of Delville Wood and the Battle of Guillemont in 1916, the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Battle of Messines in 1917, to the Battle of the Sambre in 1918. It was disbanded in 1919, having suffered the loss of over 35,000 men killed, wounded and missing. Kennington had served in two battalions of the London Regiment, the 1/22nd (County of London) Battalion (the Artists Rifles) and then the 13th (County of London) Battalion (the Kensin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London V Sheffield (1866)
London v. Sheffield was an association football game played on 31 March 1866. According to Charles Alcock, it was the "first match of any importance under the auspices of the Football Association". Origin The match was suggested in a letter from William Chesterman, secretary of Sheffield F.C., sent to the Football Association in February 1866. Chesterman stated that the Sheffield rules of the time were "nearly the same as those of the ootballassociation", and went on to suggest the "advisability of the clubs in Sheffield playing a picked team from London, composed of the clubs playing under association rules". The Football Association (FA) accepted the challenge, setting the following conditions on the match: * the game would be played by eleven players on each side (at this time the laws of the game did not specify the size of each team) * the game would be played at Battersea Park, on a ground 120 yards long and 80 yards wide * the game would last 90 minutes, from 3pm to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanderers F
Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to: * Nomadic and/or itinerant people, working short-term before moving to other locations, who wander from place to place with no permanent home, or are vagrant * The Wanderer, an alternate name for the Wandering Jew Books Novels * ''The Wanderer'' (Burney novel), an 1814 novel by Frances Burney * ''The Wanderer'' (Creech novel), 2000 novel by Sharon Creech * ''The Wanderer'' (Edwards novel), a 1953 children's novel by Monica Edwards * ''The Wanderer'' (Leiber novel), a 1964 novel by Fritz Leiber * ''The Wanderers'' (Price novel), a 1974 novel by Richard Price * ''The Wanderers'' (Rimland novel), a 1977 novel by Ingrid Rimland * ''The Wanderers'' (Shishkov novel), a 1931 novel by Vyacheslav Shishkov * ''The Wanderer'' (Gibran book), a book by Kahlil Gibran * ''The Wanderer'' (Waltari novel), a 1949 novel by Mika Waltari * ''The Wanderer'' or ''Le Grand Meaulnes'', a 1913 novel by Alain-Fournier * ''The Wanderers'', a 2017 no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer Cobb Morley
Ebenezer Cobb Morley (16 August 1831 – 20 November 1924) was an English sportsman. He is regarded as one of the fathers of the Football Association (FA) and modern football. Early life Morley was born at 10 Garden Square, Princess Street in Hull to the Reverend Ebenezer Morley, a nonconformist minister, and his wife Hannah (née Cobb). He lived in the city until he was 22. Morley qualified as a lawyer in 1854. In 1858 he moved to the London suburb of Barnes to practise as a solicitor in the capital. Sporting career Football Morley founded Barnes Football Club in 1862, and served as its captain until 1867. The Barnes club played its first recorded game, a 2–0 victory, against Richmond F.C., on 29 November 1862. A match the following month against Blackheath FC went less happily: the Blackheath club played a rugby-style game, necessitating the adoption of compromise rules. "Very weak" play by Barnes resulted in a loss by two goals to nothing, with Morley narrowly escaping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Pember
Arthur Pember (15 January 1835 – 3 April 1886) was a British sportsman, stockbroker, lawyer, journalist and author, notable for serving as the first president of The Football Association from 1863 to 1867. Early life Pember was born in 1835 into a wealthy family, the third child and second son of a stockbroker. He grew up in the Brixton Hill and Clapham Park suburbs of London. Educated at home, he did not attend university. In 1857, he joined his father working as a stockbroker in the City of London. In March 1860, he married Elizabeth Hoghton. The newly married couple moved to their own house in Carlton Road, Maida Vale, but Elizabeth died of complications of a miscarriage in December of that same year. Pember remarried in October 1862 to Alice Mary Grieve. Sportsman Football It was around this time that Pember became associated with N.N. Football Club, which played on fields opposite his house. Both Arthur and his younger brother George are recorded playing for N.N. in a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Football Association
The Football Association (also known as The FA) is the Sports governing body, governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory. The FA facilitates all competitive football matches within its remit at national level, and indirectly at local level through the county football associations. It runs numerous competitions, the most famous of which is the FA Cup. It is also responsible for appointing the management of the English national football team, men's, England women's national football team, women's, and England national under-17 football team, youth national football teams. The FA is a member of both UEFA and FIFA and holds a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board (IFAB) which is responsible for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Of Wales Drive, London
Prince of Wales Drive is a street in Battersea, in the London borough of Wandsworth. It is situated on the southern perimeter of Battersea Park. Overview Prince of Wales Mansions The southern side of Prince of Wales Drive is lined with late-Victorian mansion blocks and villas. From Battersea Bridge Road, east to Queenstown Road, the building order is as follows: #Connaught Mansions #Park Mansions (started November 1894) #Norfolk Mansions (started October 1894) #Cyril Mansions (started April 1894) #Overstrand Mansions (started January 1893) #Carlton Lodge Villa (started 1884) #Primrose Mansions (started November 1894) #York Mansions (started 1897) #Prince of Wales Mansions #All Saints Court History In 1846, the Commission for Improving the Metropolis acquired 320 acres of Battersea Fields, of which 198 acres became Battersea Park, and the remainder was to be let on building leases—the area now covered by Prince of Wales Drive, which was previously known as Prince of Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queenstown Road (Battersea) Railway Station
Queenstown Road is a railway station in inner south-west London, south-west of , between and . It is a short walk from Battersea Park railway station, Battersea Park station and Battersea Park to the west. It has three platforms, two of which are in use by all stopping services related to the Waterloo–Reading line, Waterloo to Reading Line: its branch services to Weybridge railway station, Weybridge (via Hounslow) and two separate sets of bidirectional Waterloo-to-Waterloo services via Hounslow using the Hounslow Loop Line, Hounslow Loop and via Kingston using the Kingston loop line, Kingston Loop. In addition, 50% of maximum peak hour trains serving the Shepperton branch line call at the station. History The station was opened on 1 November 1877, by the London and South Western Railway, as ''Queen's Road (Battersea)''. The entrance still bears the name Queen's Road, not to be confused with Queens Road Peckham railway station, Queens Road Peckham, Walthamstow Queen's Road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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