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Pool Meadow Bus Station

Pool Meadow bus station is a bus station in the city of Coventry, England. It is managed by Transport for West Midlands. Local bus and national coach services operated by various companies serve the bus station which has 19 departure stands. National Express Coventry has its depot adjacent to the bus station. The bus station is located at the opposite side of the city centre to Coventry railway station. It can be reached by a short walk or by a regular bus service. A bus station has occupied the site since 1931 but the present building opened in 1994, work having begun on its construction in 1993. It replaced simple rows of bus shelters - initially installed as a temporary measure in the early 1960s which eventually stood for thirty years. There are 19 departure stands, each labelled using letters between A and U. The first three stands are used for National Express Coaches services, the remaining for city scheduled bus services. Stand D is used for Megabus who started using the station on 22 May 2017. Thandi and New Bharat also use the station on stands B and C. Electronic timetable displays are in use at most of these stands, as well as at the entrances to the bus station having been installed on 8 September 2008. Bus operator fees Transport for West Midlands charge a fee to bus companies every time they use the bus station. Stagecoach in Warwickshire believes the fee is too high and have as a result excluded their commercial bus routes from serving the bus station. Millennium Place From 9 June 2002 to 1 April 2006 the development of the nearby Millennium Place traffic-free public square which intersects the Fairfax Street/Hales Street/Trinity Street junction had effectively "cut off" access between the bus station and the rest of the City Centre and only a few bus routes served the bus station as a result, it became regarded as a white elephant and was threatened with closure. On 2 April 2006 a controversial bus only link road cutting across Millennium Place was opened allowing many bus routes to start using the bus station again and protect its future, at this point National Express Coventry committed more bus services to the bus station than in the period prior to 9 June 2002. Improvements On 5 February 2013 a new access route into the bus station from White Street/Hales Street between the old fire station and junction two of the ring road was opened, at a cost of £284,000. Construction began eight weeks beforehand on 15 December 2012. It is expected that a stop on the Coventry Very Light Rail tram system will be located there, linking it with the railway station and University Hospital Coventry. References
Poole High School

Poole High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in the centre of Poole, in the English county of Dorset. History Built in 1939 as Henry Harbin Senior School, the school has expanded in every decade since its opening. The school was originally two separate schools - girls on the eastern side, boys on the west, separated by a quadrangle in the centre of the main school building. This layout was almost exactly the same as the original building at Kemp-Welch School, which opened in 1938. The school became a mixed school for 12- to 16-year-olds in the 1970s, reverting to an entry age of 11 in September 2013, as part of Poole's re-organisation into a two-tier education system. In the late 1980s the school became a 'technical high school', and its name was officially changed to Poole Technical High School in the early 1990s. It was during this period that the school added a sixth form and introduced an academic express stream, with a particular focus on the teaching of 'triple science' qualifications. It is one of a small group of partially selective schools that were permitted to retain selection under the provisions of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. Redevelopments have included the new main school canteen, an English block, extensions to the Art and Science blocks, and the Merchants' Hall, which includes a canteen for the sixth-form and seminar rooms. At its 2011 OFSTED inspection, the school was graded as 'good'. From September 2013, the school has admitted students in Year 7, taking the total number of students in attendance at PHS to over 1900, making it one of the larger schools in the country. Work completed over summer 2014 focused on extending the life of the newly named "Shaftesbury Centre". The name of the building was chosen to honour the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, who opened the school in 1939. Before 2017 the school operated a house system, in every house, there were two registration groups per year. The houses were called Jolliffe, Garland, Lester, Masters, Thompson, Spurrier and Harbin. In 2017, Spurrier and Harbin, were abolished and Year Eleven pupils were placed in a separate year eleven group. However all elements of the house system were suspended from 2017 apart from for Sports Day activities, and the house system was replaced with a year group system. In 2023, houses were brought back for the upcoming Sports Day, creating the houses of Green, Furzey, Brownsea, and Long, each named after a retrospective island within the local area. In September 2019, Poole High School officially turned on its PV system, 592 panels generating 185 kWh of electricity. In November 2016, an OFSTED inspection the school was graded as 'good', which was an improvement from the June inspection that stated the school 'requires improvement'. Notable alumni Greg Lake, musician, singer, and songwriter, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (ELP) References
Poole Museum

Poole Museum (formerly known as the Waterfront Museum) is a maritime museum, gallery and cultural centre, situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset, and is owned by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. Entrance to Poole Museum is free, and the museum was the fifth most visited free attraction in southwest England in 2015. The Local History Centre is attached to the museum in a Grade I listed medieval town cellars. Poole Museum Service also manages Scaplen's Court Museum and Garden, situated next to Poole Museum. History and exhibits The Poole Museum opened in 1989 in a 19th-century harbour warehouse. A major refurbishment of the museum took place in 2005 at a cost of £1,300,000 funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and local fundraising. The renovated museum opened in July 2007 including a terrace, visitor lounge, and new glass atrium entrance designed by Richard Horden of Horden Cherry Lee Architects. In 2021, the museum was given a £2.24 million grant by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. In May 2022 it was reported that redevelopment costs had increased by 20%. The museum closed for renovation in December 2022 with plans to reopen in late 2024. In May 2023, the Poole Logboat was removed into safe storage. The Poole Museum reopened in November 2025 after a seven-year redevelopment project costing £10 million. All three of the museum's historic buildings were restored, and three new maritime galleries were opened. The main focus of one of their new galleries is a preserved 13th-century shipwreck known as the Mortar Wreck, alongside various artifacts the vessel was carrying when it sank. The centrepiece of the museum is the 2,000-year-old Poole Logboat, an Iron Age vessel which was found in 1964 during dredging work in Poole Harbour. The museum displays a stone named Bethan's Rock that a five-year-old child donated in 2019, after she learned about museums and their preservation activities. The museum also features a wooden hippopotamus sculpture by Peter Hand that was previously at the Dolphin Centre. When first introduced in 1969 it was designed for children to play on. References External links Official website
Poole Park

Poole Park is an urban park adjacent to Poole Harbour in Poole, Dorset, England. The park was opened during the Victorian era and has remained popular with visitors ever since. It is open all year round and hosts a number of events. History The park was constructed on land donated by Lord Wimborne and was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1890. The park was built on former meadows and marshes by the town centre adjacent to Poole Harbour and covers an area of 110 acres (45 ha), of which 60 acres (24 ha) include the park's large man-made lake and ponds. Poole Park Zoo was operated from June 1963 until it fell out of favour in February 1994. Although small, at one time it boasted a Himalayan black bear. The park was designated a Conservation Area in 1995, and in 2007 a £2 million project was undertaken to dredge the lake and create five small islands and two raised reed beds. The project also involved the construction of a new restaurant and an indoor ice rink for children. On 7 January 2015 it was announced that Poole Park would receive £260,000 of Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The money will go towards a multimillion-pound redevelopment. The first round of funding for Poole Park follows a fundraising campaign by the Friends of Poole Park. The cash will be spent over the next two years while a detailed research and monitoring project on the boating lake is carried out. The development phase of the project is expected to be completed in late 2016, with the second phase of the bid submitted shortly after. Attractions Facilities include two children's play areas, tennis courts, a bowling green, miniature golf and Poole Park Railway (a ridable miniature railway). A cricket field and pavilion inside the park are home to the Poole Town Cricket Club, and water sport activities such as sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, rowing and model yacht racing with Poole Radio Yacht Club take place on the lake. The boating lake is around 21 hectares in size and between 1 and 1.5 meters deep. The lake can only be emptyed or filled during spring tides via sluices to the harbour, it is also filled via the local surface water drainage system meaning that the water is brackish (a mixture of salt and freshwater). Every Saturday morning Parkrun—a free timed 5 km running event—is held at 9:00 am, starting near the water fountain. The run uses flat tarmac paths and flat hard compact gravel within the park. Poole Parkrun regularly hosts over 900 runners each week. On Christmas Day 2019 Poole parkrun set a new attendance record of 1345 runners. References External links Friends of Poole Park Poole Parkrun
Poplar Baths

Poplar Baths on the East India Dock Road in Poplar, London is a former public bath house and Grade II listed building that was constructed in 1933 and closed to the public in 1988. The Baths are adjacent to All Saints DLR station. A campaign to restore the baths won the support of Tower Hamlets Council in 2010 and the construction company Guildmore was appointed to complete the works to create a new leisure centre incorporating a swimming pool, gymnasium and affordable housing on adjacent land. The site reopened in July 2016. History The original Poplar Baths opened in 1852, costing £10,000. It was built to provide public wash facilities for Poplar poor as a result of the Baths and Washhouses Act 1846. The baths incorporated slipper and vapour baths. The slipper baths section contained 12 baths in the men's first-class division, 24 in the men's second-class and six in both women's divisions. Steam and shower baths were located behind the slipper baths. A comprehensive public laundry was located at the rear of the building, on Arthur Street. It contained 48 wooden washing tubs, drying equipment and ironing rooms. An uncovered water tank supplied the baths and was erected above the boiler house with a capacity of 24,000 gallons. The Baths were rebuilt in 1933 to a design by Harley Heckford and the larger pool was covered over to convert the building into a theatre. Designated the East India Hall, it had seating capacity for 1,400 people and incorporated a dance hall, cinema, exhibition room and sports hall for boxing and wrestling programmes. This dual purpose sustained interest over the winter months, with the smaller pool remaining in use. Between 1938 and 1941 an office in the Baths was used by Poplar Borough Council electricity office and then later used by the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Poplar Labour Party. The main bath hall sustained bomb damage during the Second World War and was forced to close with the hall left unglazed for several years. Poplar Baths reopened in 1947 and continued to be used as a swimming facility, attracting on average 225,700 bathers every year between 1954 and 1959, before the facility's eventual closure and conversion to an industrial training centre in 1988. Restoration The Baths eventually became derelict and a bid to reopen the baths was put together by The Environment Trust, Swan Housing Group and the 'Poplar Baths Steering Group' receiving strong local support. It has been a listed building (Grade II) since 2001 and was listed on the English Heritage Register of 'Heritage at Risk'. A statue of the local shipowner and philanthropist, Richard Green stands outside the Baths on the A13 East India Dock Road. In 2010, the East London Advertiser confirmed that campaigners had won the battle to get it back into use. Redevelopment of the Baths began in January 2014 and works were expected to complete by the end of 2015. The construction of the leisure centre and 100 new homes cost an estimated £36 million. The Baths re-opened on 25 July 2016 and were removed from the Buildings at Risk register. References
Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club

Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club är en amatör-roddklubb vid Themsen i England, Storbritannien. Den är belägen vid norra bankarna mittemot Greenwich på Isle of Dogs. Klubben startades 1854 och är en av de äldsta roddklubbarna i Storbritannien. Den bildades av en grupp unga lastare som "Blackwall Rowing and Athletic Club". Båtarna bars till floden från en lokal klubb. Efter första världskriget ökade antalet medlemmar från de närliggande hamnarna, men den stora depressionen under 1930-talet ledde till minskat medlemsantal. Klubben antog nuvarande namn 1935 medan man flyttade till nuvarande klubb- och båthus 1937. Klubben har haft framgångar i regattor och haft internationellt framgångsrika roddare. Flera medlemmar har representerat Storbritannien i olympiska sommarspelen och världsmästerskap. Klubbhuset är målgång i den årliga tävlingen Great River Race. Referenser Den här artikeln är helt eller delvis baserad på material från engelskspråkiga Wikipedia. Externa länkar PBD Rowing Clubs officiella webbplats
Poplar Depot

Poplar Depot, also known as the Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC), is the secondary depot and headquarters for the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in Poplar, London. It is located adjacent to Poplar DLR station. History The depot opened in August 1987 as part of the initial DLR system. Due to the constrained site at Poplar, a new, larger depot was built at Beckton - which replaced Poplar as the main train depot in 1994. Over half the fleet are stored and maintained here. It is situated to the north of Poplar station and has two additional sidings next to All Saints. The depot was extended to hold more trains, when three-car operation began in 2009. Future Given the depot's location close to Canary Wharf, Transport for London have proposed rebuilding the depot to have residential towers built above it. This would require expansion of the Beckton depot to allow for construction at Poplar. See also Docklands Light Railway rolling stock References
Poplar Eyot

Poplar Eyot or Poplar Ait is an island in the River Thames in England near the villages of Shiplake, Oxfordshire and Wargrave, Berkshire. It is on the reach above Marsh Lock. The island is wooded and only accessible by boat. It has immediately downstream much less pronounced and smaller wooded islets, which are submerged when the river is in spate after major rainfall or snow melt across the catchment; they lie below the grounds of buildings Bolney Court and Thames Side Court which have formal geometric landscaped gardens on the Shiplake bank, and it has always been part of the parish since its medieval founding; though is slightly closer to the Wargrave bank. See also Islands in the River Thames References
Poplar Island (Oxfordshire)

Poplar Island ist eine Insel in der Themse in Oxfordshire bei Reading, England. Die Insel liegt flussaufwärts des Caversham Lock etwa 3 km von Tilehurst. Die Insel liegt in der Mitte des Flusses und der Schiffsverkehr geht entsprechend den Regeln links und rechts an ihr vorbei. Siehe auch Liste der Inseln in der Themse Einzelnachweise
Poplar Island, River Thames

Poplar Island is an island in the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The island is on the reach above Caversham Lock near Tilehurst, a suburb of Reading. Appletree Eyot is very close to it. The two islands are in the middle of the river, so that navigation goes to each side of them according to the rules of the river. Poplar Island is densely covered by trees. See also Islands in the River Thames References
Poplar Island

Poplar Island est une petite île de la Tamise en Angleterre. Description Il s'agit d'une île fluviale, inhabitée et recouverte d'arbres, située à environ cinq kilomètres à l'ouest-nord-ouest de Reading, dans le Berkshire. Elle se trouve à une cinquantaine de mètres d'une autre île fluviale, Appletree Eyot. Notes et références Voir aussi Bibliographie Miranda Vickers, Eyots and Aits : Islands of the River Thames, History Press Limited, 2012. (ISBN 075246213X) Leigh Hatts, The Thames Path : From London to Source, Cicerone Press, 2010. (ISBN 1849650934) Articles connexes Liste des îles de la Tamise Liste des îles d'Angleterre Liens externes (en) « Poplar Island », sur le site CanalPlanAC (en) « Poplar Island », sur le site Ordnance Survey Portail de l’Angleterre Portail des îles
Port Clarence

Port Clarence is a small village in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. It is on the north bank of the River Tees, and near the northern end of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge. History Formerly known as Samphire Batts, it is situated on the River Tees. As the Industrial Revolution took shape and ships got bigger, access to Stockton became harder, and so colliery owners needed better access to the North Sea. It became known as Port Clarence following a visit by the then Duke of Clarence, who would later become King William IV. 19th century Investors created the Clarence Railway which connected Stockton to the newly developed port at Samphire Batts, and also Haverton Hill, a 0.5 miles (0.80 km) upstream. The village was hence renamed after the port. Meanwhile, its great rival the Stockton and Darlington Railway extended to Middlesbrough, on the opposite side of the river. The S&DR extension was completed by 1830, while the CR was completed by 1833. The opening of the railways provided the stimulus for the growth of both Middlesbrough and Port Clarence. Prior to the opening of the railway, ship access to Port Clarence was very slow and difficult, often taking as long to carry the coal to the port, as it had to sail from the port to London. However, the CR shared rail track owned by the S&DR near to the County Durham coal mines and never made a profit due to the restrictions and fees imposed by the owners of the S&DR and eventually the PCR was taken over by the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway, a subsidiary of the Hartlepool Docks and Railway Company, to allow quicker onward shipment via new docks at Hartlepool. 20th century The area has a strong history of immigration from Ireland, with many travellers settling in the village between 1900 and 1920 to work in the local steel and chemical industries, as well as the local Furness Shipyards. Present It is served by the Stagecoach service 1 between Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. The A1046 links the village to Stockton and Middlesbrough (via the Newport Bridge) in the west and the A178 links to Hartlepool and Middlesbrough (via the Transporter Bridge) in the east. Three hundred homes in Port Clarence were evacuated in December 2013 after the Tees burst its bank. References External links Media related to Port Clarence at Wikimedia Commons
Port Clarence (Angleterre)

Port Clarence est un village situé dans le comté de Durham en Angleterre, non loin de Stockton-on-Tees, sur la rive nord du fleuve Tees. Il se situe à l'extrémité nord du Tees Transporter Bridge, un pont transbordeur qui relie Port Clarence à Middlesbrough. Galerie Voir aussi Liens externes Portail de l’Angleterre
Port Eliot

Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises a stately home with its own church, which serves as the parish church of St Germans. An earlier church building was Cornwall's principal cathedral. The house is within an estate of 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) which extends into the neighbouring villages of Tideford, Trerulefoot and Polbathic. Both house and garden are Grade I listed. History Originally built as a priory with adjoining St Germans Priory Church, parts of the house date back to the 12th century. It was substantially altered and remodelled in the 17th and 18th centuries by noted architects, including Sir John Soane. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Eliot family invested substantially in the estate, building numerous farmhouses, fishermen's cottages and other dwellings across the land. Many of these remain part of the estate to this day, and they are rented out to local residents and friends of the family. Some properties, mainly lying remote from the estate, have been sold in recent years. In 2014, 1,800-acres (700-hectares) of the estate was purchased by the Duchy of Cornwall. Festivals Elephant Fayre In 1980 a small festival which had outgrown its site at Polgooth in mid-Cornwall approached the Port Eliot estate and asked if it could be held in the idyllic grounds. The estate office agreed a price, and there began the Elephant Fayre, one of the most eclectic festivals of the 1980s. The festival ran from 1981 to 1986, beginning with some 1,500 visitors over four days, and featured a mix of music, theatre and visual arts. Over the years the festival grew, attracting crowds of up to 30,000 and bands such as The Cure, The Fall and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The burning down of the oldest tree in the park, looting of the village surgery and the robbing of stall-holders in 1985 prompted Lord Eliot and fellow organisers to make the 1986 festival the last. Port Eliot Festival In 2003 Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans began the Port Eliot Lit Fest in Cornwall. Which carried on as Port Eliot Festival until 2019. Public access In March 2008 the house and grounds opened to the public for the first time, for 100 days, and attracted 12,000 visitors. There is a shop and cafe with gardens open all year round. Guided tours of the house are available. Gallery References External links Port Eliot Official Website Port Eliot Festival Port Eliot LitFest Archive BBC News on the Elephant Fayre