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East Greenwich Pleasaunce
East Greenwich Pleasaunce is a public park in East Greenwich, in south-east London. It is situated to the north side of the railway line between Maze Hill and Westcombe Park railway stations and south of the A206 Woolwich Road. The park, opened in 1857, was originally the graveyard of Greenwich Hospital. Due to construction of a railway tunnel as part of the London and Greenwich Railway, the remains of around 3000 sailors and officers, including those who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar and the Crimean War were removed from the hospital site in 1875 and reinterred in the Pleasaunce (named after the former Royal Palace of Placentia or Palace of Pleasaunce). Those buried in the Pleasaunce include: *Lieutenant James Berry (d.1930), Curator of the Royal Naval Museum for 17 years *John Booth (1781-1858). Born Northowram, West Yorkshire. Served at the Battle of Trafalgar as a Royal Marine in HMS ''Revenge''. In July 1852 became a Greenwich Hospital in-pensioner. * John Davidson (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwich Union Workhouse - Map C
Greenwich ( , ,) is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is situated east-southeast of Charing Cross. Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time. The town became the site of a royal palace, the Palace of Placentia from the 15th century, and was the birthplace of many Tudors, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The palace fell into disrepair during the English Civil War and was demolished to be replaced by the Royal Naval Hospital for Sailors, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor. These buildings became the Royal Naval College in 1873, and they remained a military education establishment until 1998 when they passed into the hands of the Greenwich Foundation. The historic rooms within these buildings remain open to the public; other buildings are used by University of Greenwich and Trinity Laban Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Revenge (1805)
HMS ''Revenge'' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1805. Sir John Henslow designed her as one of the large class 74s; she was the only ship built to her draught. As a large 74, she carried 24-pounder guns on her upper gun deck, rather than the 18-pounder guns found on the middling and common class 74s. Career Newly commissioned, and captained by Robert Moorsom, she fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, where she sailed in Collingwood's column. ''Revenge'' was engaged at the Battle of Basque Roads in April 1809 under Captain Alexander Robert Kerr. In October 1810, ''Revenge'' captured the French privateer cutter ''Vauteur'' off Cherbourg after a five-hour chase. ''Vauteur'' had been armed with 16 guns, but she threw 14 of them overboard during the chase. She had been out of Dieppe for 45 hours but had made no captures. She was the former British cutter ''John Bull'', of Plymouth, and was restored to Plymouth on 19 October. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks And Open Spaces In The Royal Borough Of Greenwich
The Royal Borough of Greenwich has over fifty parks and open spaces within its boundaries. They include: * Abbey Wood Park * Avery Hill Park * Birchmere Park * Bostall Heath and Woods * Blackheath * Charlton Park * Eaglesfield Park * East Greenwich Pleasaunce * Eltham Common * Eltham Park north & south * Falconwood Field * Fairy Hill * Greenwich Park * Horn Park * Kidbrooke Green Park * Maribor Park, formerly Royal Arsenal Gardens * Maryon Park in Charlton * Maryon Wilson Park in Charlton * Oxleas Wood and adjoining Oxleas Meadow, Castle Wood, Jack Wood and Shepherdleas Wood * Plumstead Common and the adjoining Winn's Common * Plumstead Gardens * Queenscroft Park * Ridgeway * Shooters Hill * Shrewsbury Barrow * Shrewsbury Park, Woolwich-Plumstead * St Mary's Garden, Woolwich * Sutcliffe Park * The Tarn * Well Hall Pleasaunce * Wellington Park, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich * Woolwich Common which includes Repository Woods The Green Chain, a linked series of linear and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1857 Establishments In England
Events January–March * January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. * January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating. * January 9 – The 7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''). * January 24 – The University of Calcutta is established in Calcutta, as the first multidisciplinary modern university in South Asia. The University of Bombay is also established in Bombay, British India, this year. * February 3 – The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, D.C., becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf. * February 5 – The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States is promulgated. * March – The Austrian garrison leaves Bucharest. * March 3 ** France and the United Kingdom f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Borough Of Greenwich
The Royal Borough of Greenwich (, , or ) is a London borough in southeast Greater London. The London Borough of Greenwich was formed in 1965 by the London Government Act 1963. The new borough covered the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich and part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich to the east. The local council is Greenwich London Borough Council which meets in Woolwich Town Hall. The council's offices are also based in Woolwich, the main urban centre in the borough. Greenwich is the location of the Greenwich prime meridian, on which all Coordinated Universal Time is based. The prime meridian running through Greenwich and the Greenwich Observatory is where the designation Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT began, and on which all world times are based. In 2012, Greenwich was listed as a top ten global destination by Frommer's – the only UK destination to be listed. To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Greenwich became a Royal Borough on 3 February 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Admiralty
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty, rather than by a single person. The Admiralty was replaced by the Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (later Navy Command). Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs administered the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England, which merged with the Royal Scots Navy and the absorbed the responsibilities of the Lord High Admiral of the Kingdom of Scotland with the unification of the Kingdom of Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Borough Of Greenwich
The Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich was a Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965. It bordered the boroughs of Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, Woolwich, Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham, Lewisham and Metropolitan Borough of Deptford, Deptford and, across the River Thames, the borough of Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, Poplar and the County Borough of West Ham in Essex. Within the area of the borough were the Royal Naval College (now the National Maritime Museum), the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Observatory and Greenwich Park. The borough was abolished in 1965, and its area was merged with that of the borough of Woolwich to form the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London Borough of Greenwich within the new ceremonial county of Greater London. Formation and boundaries The borough was formed from four Civil parishes in England, civil parishes: Charlton, London, Charlton-next-Woolwich, Deptford St Nich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMY Victoria And Albert (1855)
HMY ''Victoria and Albert'', a steamer launched on 16 January 1855, was a royal yacht of the sovereign of the United Kingdom until 1900, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She displaced 2,390 tons, and could make on her paddles. There were 240 crew. Career Queen Victoria made her first cruise in her on 12 July 1855. On 3 June 1859, ''Victoria and Albert'' ran aground in the Scheldt whilst on a voyage from Gravesend, Kent to Antwerp, Belgium. Queen Victoria left the ship to Empress Elisabeth of Austria for her cruise to Madeira in 1860. The ship was used by Prince Arthur on the occasion of his visit to Heligoland in 1872.Rüger, p. 68. Queen Victoria sent the ship to Vlissingen to ferry Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany accompanied by his wife Victoria, their three youngest daughters, Professor Gerhardt, two court officials and two ladies-in-waiting across the Channel to be treated of his throat illness in England by Dr. Mackenzie. They alighted in Sheerne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Liddell (Royal Navy Officer)
Sir John Liddell, KCB, FRS (1794 – 28 May 1868) was a Scottish medical doctor who served as Director-General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy (30 April 1855 – 21 January 1864),The organisation of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy, in ''William Loney RN - Victorian naval surgeon'' http://www.pdavis.nl/Ranks.htm (accessed: 19 June 2012) and senior medical officer of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. Born in Dunblane in 1794, Liddell was educated at the University of Edinburgh before joining the Royal Navy where he saw service on HMS ''Asia'' at the Battle of Navarino (1827). For his preparations for the battle, he was subsequently one of the first recipients of the Gilbert Blane Medal in 1832. During a period as director of Malta's Bighi Naval Hospital (1827–1844), he served on HMS ''Barham'' during Sir Walter Scott's 1831 voyage to Naples. He was appointed inspector of fleets and hospitals in 1844. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (Royal Navy Officer)
John Davidson (died 31 January 1881) was an English surgeon who served as Inspector-General of the Royal Navy and was Honorary Physician to Queen Victoria. Career Davidson joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon on 29 July 1839, serving on HMS ''Nimrod'' when it sailed from Plymouth to the East Indies. He served as surgeon-superintendent on the ''Lord Auckland'' from September 1852 to April 1853 when the ship carried convicts from Cork to Van Diemen's Land, arriving on 29 January 1853. As a deputy inspector of hospitals, he was director of the naval hospital at Therapia during the Crimean War, sailing on the '' Royal Albert'' in 1855. During the 1860s, he was medical inspector at Greenwich Hospital, London. He was appointed Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets in July 1866. Davidson was appointed Honorary Physician to Queen Victoria in July 1874, succeeding Sir Alexander Nisbet. He died, aged 63, in 1881 and was buried in the Greenwich Hospital's cemetery (today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northowram
Northowram () is a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England that stands to the east of Halifax on the north side of Shibden valley. Southowram stands on the southern side of the valley. The village was documented in the 19th century as being in the parish of Halifax, 2½ miles north-east of Halifax and 6½ miles from Bradford. Its population at that point was 6,841 and Northowram Hall was the seat of J.F. Dyson, Esq. The ward is now called Northowram and Shelf. The population at the 2011 Census was 11,618. The village has three churches: St Matthew's Church of England parish church, a Methodist church, and a Heywood United Reformed Church. St Matthew's is a Grade II listed building which is constructed of snecked local sandstone with a graded stone-slate roof. In addition, the village today has 21 shops and one school, Northowram Primary School. The serial killer John Christie was born at Black Boy House near the village in 1899. The village hosts an annual Scarecr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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