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Old Town Hall, Barking
The Old Town Hall is a former municipal building on East Street in Barking, London. The building, which was converted for use as a magistrates' court in 1960 and more recently for residential use, is a Grade II listed building. History The building was commissioned by the Barking Local Board, formed in 1882, to serve as public offices. The site the board selected, on the southeast side of East Street, was occupied by a market garden. The new building was designed by a local architect, Charles James Dawson, in the Renaissance Revival style, built in red brick with stone dressings and was completed in 1893. The design involved a near symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto East Street. The central bay featured a large stone portico with a round headed opening and elaborate carvings in the spandrels. The end bays, which were slightly projected forward, were fenestrated by mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor and by oriel windows with ogee-shaped heads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barking, London
Barking is a riverside town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is east of Charing Cross. The total population of Barking was 59,068 at the 2011 census.If defined as the Abbey, Eastbury, Gascoigne, Longbridge, and Thames Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral wards of Barking & Dagenham Council In addition to an extensive and fairly low-density residential area, the town centre forms a large retail and commercial district, currently a focus for regeneration. The former industrial lands to the south are being redeveloped as Barking Riverside. Historically, Barking was an ancient parish that straddled the River Roding in the Becontree Hundred and Historic Counties of England, historic county of Essex. It underwent a shift from fishing and farming to market gardening and industrial development on the River Thames. Barking railway station opened in 1854 and has been served by the London Underground since 1908. As p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince George, Duke Of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942) was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and then briefly as a civil servant. He became Duke of Kent in 1934. In the late 1930s he served as a Royal Air Force officer, initially as a staff officer at RAF Training Command and then, from July 1941, as a staff officer in the Welfare Section of the RAF Inspector General's Staff. He died in the Dunbeath air crash in Scotland on 25 August 1942, in which fourteen of the fifteen crew and passengers were killed. Early life Prince George was born on 20 December 1902 at York Cottage on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England. His father was the Prince of Wales (later King George V), the only surviving son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. His mother was the Princess of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City And Town Halls In London
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II Listed Buildings In The London Borough Of Barking And Dagenham
Grade most commonly refers to: * Grading in education, a measurement of a student's performance by educational assessment (e.g. A, pass, etc.) * A designation for students, classes and curricula indicating the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage (e.g. first grade, second grade, K–12, etc.) * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope * Graded voting Grade or grading may also refer to: Music * Grade (music), a formally assessed level of profiency in a musical instrument * Grade (band), punk rock band * Grades (producer), British electronic dance music producer and DJ Science and technology Biology and medicine * Grading (tumors), a measure of the aggressiveness of a tumor in medicine * The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach * Evolutionary grade, a paraphyletic group of organisms Geology * Graded bedding, a description of the variation in grain size through a bed in a sedimentary rock * Metamorphic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suranne Jones
Sarah Ann Akers (née Jones; born 27 August 1978), known professionally as Suranne Jones, is an English actress and producer. Known for her numerous collaborations with screenwriter Sally Wainwright, she rose to prominence playing Karen McDonald on ITV's ''Coronation Street'' between 2000 and 2004. Upon leaving, she furthered her television career in drama series such as ''Vincent'' (2005–2006), '' Strictly Confidential'' (2006), ''Harley Street'' (2008), and ''Unforgiven'' (2009). Jones starred as Detective Rachel Bailey in the police procedural '' Scott & Bailey'' (2011–2016), and garnered further attention with headline roles in '' Single Father'', '' Five Days'' (both 2010), '' A Touch of Cloth'' (2012–2014), and '' The Crimson Field'' (2014). For her portrayal of Gemma Foster—a GP who suffers personal betrayal—in '' Doctor Foster'' (2015–2017), Jones received several awards, including the 2016 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Subsequent cred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Majesty's Courts And Tribunals Service
His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom), Ministry of Justice. It was created on 1 April 2011 (as Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service) by the merger of Her Majesty's Courts Service and the Tribunals Service. The agency is responsible for the court administration, administration of the Courts of England and Wales, courts of England and Wales, the Probate Service and Tribunals in England and Wales, tribunals in England and Wales and non-devolved tribunals in Scotland and Northern Ireland. It works from about 600 locations across the United Kingdom. Role The organisation's Framework Document says its aim is "to run an efficient and effective courts and tribunals system, which enables the rule of law to be upheld and provides access to justice for all." The courts over which it has responsibility are the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice, High Court, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales. The street outside follows the route of London Wall, the ancient wall around the City of London, which was part of the fortification's Bailey (castle), bailey, hence the metonymic name. The court has been housed in a succession of buildings on the street since the sixteenth century, when it was attached to the medieval Newgate Prison. The current main building block was completed in 1902, designed by Edward William Mountford; its monumental architecture is recognised and protected as a Grade II* listed building. An extension, South Block, was constructed in 1972, over the former site of Newgate Prison which had been demolished in 1904. The Crown Court sitting in the Old Bailey hears major English criminal law, criminal cases from within Greate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broadway (theatre)
The Broadway is a performance venue in Barking town centre. The building was previously a facility known as Barking Assembly Hall, forming part of Barking Town Hall. While it is currently a live working performance venue the building is also one of four campuses for Barking & Dagemham College, hosting the college’s production and performance courses. History The building, which was completed in 1961, was part of the Barking Town Hall complex. It was officially opened by Tom Driberg MP as Barking Assembly Hall in May 1961. Sir Adrian Boult conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the assembly hall on 26 November 1969. In 1971, the renowned Canadian singer songwriter Neil Young recorded two tracks from ''Harvest'', his best selling and most famous album, at the Broadway when it was known as Barking Assembly Hall (but is credited as Barking Town Hall on the album notes.) Young recorded these two tracks " A Man Needs a Maid" and "There's a World" for his Harvest album in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Warren (promoter)
Frank Warren (born 28 February 1952) is an English boxing manager and promoter and the founder of Queensberry Promotions. Warren was also a founder of the British boxing television channel BoxNation which ran for over 11 years from 2012. Warren has promoted and managed world champions and top ranked fighters including Naseem Hamed, Frank Bruno, Tyson Fury, Josh Warrington, Joe Calzaghe, Nigel Benn, Billy Joe Saunders, Steve Collins, Chris Eubank, Amir Khan and Ricky Hatton. Career Warren was born in Islington on 28 February 1952. The son of a bookmaker, he trained as a solicitor's clerk with J Tickle & Co on Southampton Row in London. Warren was approached by his second-cousin Lenny McLean who having just lost a fight and wanting a rematch, could not find a promoter. Warren agreed to become an unlicensed promoter, getting McLean a trainer who had worked with Chris Finnegan, and made the rematch at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park. Warren's first licensed show was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Marsh (boxer)
Terry Marsh (born 7 February 1958) is an English former professional boxing, professional boxer who was an List of undefeated boxing world champions, undefeated world champion in the light welterweight division. Marsh was a three-time Amateur Boxing Association of England, ABA senior amateur boxing, amateur champion who went on to become the BBBofC, British, European Boxing Union, European and IBF light welterweight world champion as a professional. He was the second European boxer to retire as an undefeated World Champion, after Jack McAuliffe (boxer), Jack McAuliffe, a feat later equalled by Romanian people, Romanian Michael Loewe (boxer), Michael Loewe, Germany's Sven Ottke, Welshman Joe Calzaghe, and Russian Dmitry Pirog. Marsh was charged with the attempted murder of his former manager, the boxing promoter, Frank Warren (promoter), Frank Warren following Warren's shooting in London in 1989. Marsh spent 10 months on Detention of suspects, remand before he was released afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barking Town Hall
Barking Town hall is a municipal building in Clockhouse Avenue, Barking, London, England. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council, is a locally listed building. History The building was commissioned to replace the old town hall in East Street. A large site was chosen for the new building east of Broadway and extensive demolition of aging residential accommodation was undertaken in the late 1930s. The clearance included the buildings on Heath Street which led down to Barking Wharf. The new building was designed by Herbert Jackson and Reginald Edmonds in the Neo-Georgian style and was inspired by Stockholm City Hall. The design for the main frontage in Barking Town Square, which was brick faced, involved nine bays with an arched doorway on the ground floor, a balcony and three tall windows on the first floor and three smaller windows on the second floor; a tall clock tower surmounted by a cupola was erected at roof level. The siz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
