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Croydon Road Recreation Ground

Croydon Road Recreation Ground is a public park in Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley. It is near the High St and adjacent to Beckenham Beacon. The park features a café and bandstand, as well as a bowling green and other sports facilities. The park was laid out by the Sydenham firm Reid and Bornemann in 1890 and was formally opened on 23 September 1891. The UK's first manned airmail flight left from here in 1902, travelling to Calais by hot air balloon The event was held to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII. The crew were A E Gaudron, a French balloonist and Dr. Barton, a local medical practitioner. Mail was dropped at three points in Kent before the balloon itself then crossed the Channel before landing near Calais. On 16 August 1969 David Bowie helped organise and played at the Growth Summer Festival a one-day festival that played from the bandstand in the park. Now known as the Bowie Bandstand, it was built by the McCallum and Hope Iron Foundry of Glasgow and erected in 1905. It was listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England in 2019 as a "rare and substantial example of cast-iron work" by the McCallum and Hope Iron Foundry, and for its association with Bowie. On 15 September 2013, the park hosted a "Memory of a Free Festival" event, commemorating the 1969 festival. References External links The Friends of Croydon Road Recreation Ground
Croydon University Hospital

Croydon University Hospital, known from 1923 to 2002 as Mayday Hospital and from 2002 to 2010 as Croydon Hospital, is a large NHS hospital in Thornton Heath in south London, England run by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. It is a District General Hospital with a 24-hour Accident and Emergency department. The hospital is based on a 19-acre (7.7 ha) site in Thornton Heath to the north of central Croydon. History The hospital's roots are as the infirmary of the Croydon Workhouse opened in Mayday Road by the Rt. Rev. Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in May 1885. It replaced the previous infirmary in Duppas Hill. The Croydon Union Infirmary was renamed Mayday Hospital (though usually referred to as Mayday Road Hospital) in June 1923. Under the terms of the Local Government Act 1929, it was taken over by Croydon Corporation in April 1932; and then by the National Health Service in July 1948. The name was changed to Croydon Hospital in 2002 and was changed again to Croydon University Hospital in 2010. A new out-patients department was opened by the Rt. Rev. Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1966 and a new surgical wing was opened by Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons in May 1985. More recently, a large building project was the Jubilee Wing opened by John Reid, the Secretary of State for Health, in December 2004. Facilities Facilities at the hospital include 670 beds, eight operating theatres, a day surgery suite with three theatres, two obstetric theatres and recovery room, and overnight facilities for parents. Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is developing an application for Foundation Trust status. In a survey conducted in 2017 the trust was rated "worse than expected" over care for women giving birth. The Acute Medical Unit was opened in 2012; it contains 42 beds and provides rapid assessment and treatment for patients admitted from GPs or A&E. Patients may be discharged from AMU after a short stay (normally under 48 hours) or admitted to a specialty ward. The unit is also home to an Acute Care of the Elderly unit, and a Rapid Assessment Medical Unit with 13 beds, where patients can be quickly assessed by acute medicine doctors and either admitted to the AMU or to a specialist ward. In 2018, the trust opened its new Emergency Department. The new department is 30% larger than the previous department, and cost over £21 million to build. Facilities in the department include: 3 triage rooms 28 Majors enclosed rooms 9 Urgent Treatment Centre rooms (2 for children) and a treatment room 8 Resuscitation bays (2 for children) 3 mental health rooms (Care is provided by the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) and an interview room Plaster cast facilities Decontamination and major incident facilities See also Healthcare in London References External links Trust website
Croyland Abbey, Wellingborough

Croyland Abbey is a Grade II-listed manor house (currently used as offices), in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. History The building was never an abbey. It is named after Croyland (or Crowland) Abbey in Lincolnshire, for which it was a monastic grange from the 10th century. Although there was never an Abbey here, there were monks here who lived and worshipped at the site. A Grade I tithe barn, dating to the 15th Century, is the only remaining building that was attached to the medieval grange. The ironstone barn survived a fire in 1972. The present structure is Jacobean and was constructed in the 17th century. It has been heavily altered and rebuilt; with large parts of the 17th-century house demolished in the early 19th-century. However, traces of the medieval grange exist, in the form of a 12th-century doorway. The Abbey adjoins Croyland Hall, originally a farmhouse, which was home to Wellingborough Heritage Centre until 2006. Renamed Wellingborough Museum, it relocated to the building that used to be Dulleys swimming baths in Castle Way, with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund. Both Croyland Hall and Croyland Abbey are now occupied as offices by Wellingborough Borough Council. There is a Cleric with the Title Abbot of Croyland. References
Crumpsall Park

Crumpsall Park is a small municipal park in the Crumpsall ward of Manchester, North West England. Originally planned as a cemetery, the plot was made into a recreational park in 1890 CE. The area in which the park is located was the site of the residence of the Chetham family - known as Crumpsall Hall - the earlier Crumpsall Old Hall was situated at the junction of Sandy Lane (now Crescent Road) and Cheetham Street, (now Humphrey Street) and this was the birthplace of Humphrey Chetham. The park has been awarded the Green Flag Award for recreational park excellence annually since 2005. A voluntary organisation known as the Friends of Crumpsall Park (FoCP) serves as a pressure group, events organiser and development monitor for the park, and works in liaison with Manchester City Council and other funding bodies. The main event of the year is the annual Crumpsall Carnival. References
Crystal Palace Bowl

The Crystal Palace Park Concert Platform, formerly the Crystal Palace Bowl, is an outdoor stage and performance venue in Crystal Palace Park in the London Borough of Bromley. The platform and stage are positioned within a small lake overlooking a large bowl in the landscape that is capable of holding 8,000 people. The stage can accommodate a 100 piece orchestra. The platform has what has been described as the world's first computer controlled outdoor active acoustic system, with a total of 46 speakers. A pair of columns either side of the platform contain more speakers and an amplification system. History The Crystal Palace Bowl was constructed in 1961. It originally hosted classical concerts, before moving to popular music through the 1970s and 1980s. Pink Floyd performed at the Bowl on 15 May 1971 to a crowd of 15,000, though their performance was marred by heavy rain. Yes performed at the venue on 31 July. At one event in 1972, The Who drummer Keith Moon acted as compere; after arriving via helicopter and reaching the stage by hovercraft, he proceeded to take a rowing boat on the lake and, while dressed as a pirate, served tea and cake to people in the crowd closest to the waters edge. Audience members, again went into the lake in 1974 when inflatable dinosaurs meant to act out, on the water, the climactic battle in Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, instead failed to fully inflate and became stuck in front of the stage, blocking the view. Bob Marley performed his largest and last ever concert in London at the venue on 7 June 1980, an event which is commemorated on the site with a blue plaque with Ethiopian/pan-African/Rastafari tri-colours. It was Marley's last UK concert, and the first one where he played "Redemption Song" accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. The Bowl fell into disrepair and was replaced in 1997 by the Crystal Palace Concert Platform, an oxidised steel structure with an angled roof rising above a hardwood stage. The first performance took place there in August 1997. The structure, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, was nominated for the RIBA's Stirling Prize award in 1998. The project received the 'Excellence in Design' award from the American Institute of Architects. The architects described their design as focusing on the use of natural colour, contrasting senses of gravity and levity, and simplicity of material and surface. The stage became known locally as the "rusty laptop". The new stage was initially in use from 1997 to 2007 and subsequently fell into disrepair; the structure becoming covered in graffiti and the lake filling with algae. By 2017, the London Borough of Bromley were "exploring potential new uses". A temporary stage was installed on the lake for a series of concerts in August 2021, with plans to restore the Concert Platform stage in 2022. This concert series runs annually, however as of 2024 is still using temporary staging. References External links Concert Platform
Crystal Peaks

Crystal Peaks is a shopping centre and retail park in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Established in 1988, the centre attracts around 11 million visitors a year. Facilities Crystal Peaks Shopping centre has approximately 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m2) of retail space and food outlets with a range chains and a supermarket. The centre has an indoor market of smaller businesses (operated by Sheffield City Council), a medical centre, veterinary surgery, bus station as well as other facilities and services. The nearby retail park has a number of larger stores, restaurants and warehouses as well as a gym. Nearby is Moss Way police station, Beighton Community Hospital and the Sheffield College Peaks Campus, the latter of which has stopped teaching activities. Community Bee hives have been placed on the shopping centre's roof and bee-friendly flowers planted to help the local bee population, other environmental projects include the installation of swift bird boxes on the building, creating a nature reserve and supporting the village of Beighton in Britain and Yorkshire in Bloom competitions. Crystal Peaks also has a dedicated 'charity of the year'. In 2010, the centre raised over £8,000 for Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice. The centre's adopted charity for 2011 was Macmillan Cancer Support. History Crystal Peaks first opened in 1988, being developed in phases. Opening ceremonies attracted large crowds to see Roland Rat and then Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards do the honours. The Olympic ski jumper Edwards performed a stunt on wires from the top of the atrium above the escalators. Originally, the centre had a central waterfall, stream, clock tower modelled lift and model railway. Sheffield's first ten screen cinema, was also part of the complex until 2003. Since opening, the centre has developed substantially. There was a western extension in 1998. The supermarket was relocated to the in 2006 for further extensions to the north and east opened in early 2007. Interior shots of the shopping centre were used for the 2010 film Four Lions, in which a character is depicted as working as a shopping centre security guard. Public transport Bus station Crystal Peaks bus station is located off of Peaks Mount on the western side of the shopping centre, with a direct entrance into the shopping centre. The bus station is located nearby to the Crystal Peaks tram stop, and together provide a public transport hub for south-east Sheffield. Services As of July 2026, the stand allocation is: Tram Stop Crystal Peaks tram stop is located in Waterthorpe on the South Yorkshire Supertram system, and serves Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre and Retail Park, Drakehouse Retail Park, and Waterthorpe. It consists of two platforms. The east side of Crystal Peaks shopping centre is also served by the Beighton Drakehouse Lane tram stop, which is located behind the "Green" car park. References External links Official website Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre on CompletelyRetail
Somerville College Library

Somerville College Library is the college library of Somerville College, one of the 38 colleges of the University of Oxford. The library is one of the largest college libraries at the University of Oxford and has achieved 100% student satisfaction in several annual surveys. Somerville College Library is situated north of the main quadrangle, facing the Chapel. It is open 24 hours a day, has Wi-Fi, several study rooms and computers, and the main student colour printer and scanner. The library is a Grade II-listed building. History The Edwardian building was built in 1903 and designed by Sir Basil Champneys. It was officially opened in 1904 by John Morley. Robert Bridges wrote Demeter specially for this opening, at which it was performed for the first time. Somerville College Library was the first library for women at the University of Oxford, and among the first college libraries built at Oxford with the needs of the undergraduates rather than the fellows in mind. During the First World War, Somerville college became a hospital for convalescing officers and the library was a popular place for beds to be placed, overlooking the gardens. Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves were both to reminisce about their time at Somerville Hospital. Indira Gandhi had her room in the building, before the ground floor was added to the library in 1974. Collection The library has a collection of approximately 2,000 books from the philosopher and women's rights activist John Stuart Mill and his father James Mill, the so-called John Stuart Mill Library, which was donated in 1905. The books contain many notes by Mill himself, which are being catalogued and researched by the University of Alabama and Oxford. Other notable donations or collections are from Amelia Edwards, Robert Bridges, John Ruskin, William Morris, Vernon Lee, Mary Lascelles and alumnae Vera Brittain, Margery Fry, Margaret Kennedy, Vivien Noakes and Muriel St. Clare Byrne. The library also owns letters from Ada Lovelace, notes from Mary Somerville and a letter from Charles Babbage addressed to Somerville. These are stored, however, in the Bodleian Library. The library contains paintings by Mary Somerville, John Constable, Maud Sumner and Patrick George. The special collections include one of the first editions of Gustave Doré's illustrated Divine Comedy by Dante, published by Hachette Livre, from 1861; a print of the Divine Comedy from 1578 with 15th century commentary; a print of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer from 1570; an English translation of Giambattista della Porta's Magia Naturalis from 1658; a copy of Shakespeare's Second Folio which was part of David Garrick's library; and a copy of the second edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica from 1713. To allow for future growth the library was built to contain about 60,000 books, while it possessed only 6,000 at opening. At the time female students had no access to the other libraries at the university. Today, the library holds approximately 120,000 items, 95,000 of which are on open shelves. Gallery References External links Somerville College, Library & IT
Somerville College Library

De Somerville College Library is de bibliotheek van Somerville College, een van de 38 colleges van de Universiteit van Oxford. De bibliotheek is de grootste collegebibliotheek van de Universiteit van Oxford en scoort met 100% het hoogst van alle colleges bij de jaarlijkse tevredenheidsenquêtes. Somerville College Library ligt aan de noordkant van de main quadrangle, tegenover de Somerville College Chapel. Het is 24 uur per dag open, heeft wifi en bevat onder andere studiekamers en computers. Geschiedenis De bibliotheek is in 1903 ontworpen door Basil Champneys en is in 1904 officieel geopend door John Morley. Speciaal voor de opening werd door Robert Bridges het stuk Demeter geschreven en opgevoerd. Somerville College Library was de eerste bibliotheek voor vrouwen aan de Universiteit van Oxford. Het gebouw behoort tot de edwardiaanse architectuur en is een Grade II-gebouw. Ten tijde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog, werd Somerville College in gebruik genomen als ziekenhuis voor officieren. De bibliotheek, kijken over de tuinen, was een populaire plaats voor ziekenhuis bedden. Onder andere Robert Graves en Siegfried Sassoon zijn hier patiënt geweest. Indira Gandhi had haar kamer in het gebouw, voordat de onderste etage bij de bibliotheek werd gevoegd. Collectie De bibliotheek bevat de collectie van circa 2000 boeken van de filosoof en vrouwenrechtenactivist John Stuart Mill en zijn vader James Mill, de zogenoemde John Stuart Mill Library, geschonken in 1905. De boeken bevatten veel aantekeningen van Mill zelf, die onderzocht worden door de Universiteit van Alabama en Oxford. Ook Amelia Edwards, John Ruskin, William Morris en alumna Vera Brittain schonken werken aan deze bibliotheek. Tevens beheert de bibliotheek brieven van Ada Lovelace, aantekeningen van Mary Somerville en een brief van Charles Babbage gericht aan Somerville. Deze worden echter bewaard in de Bodleian Library. Onder de speciale collectie behoren onder andere een van de eerste drukken van de door Gustave Doré geïllustreerde De goddelijke komedie van Dante van uitgeverij Hachette Livre uit 1861, een druk van De goddelijke komedie uit 1578 met 15e-eeuws commentaar, een druk van het werk van Geoffrey Chaucer uit 1570, een Engelse vertaling van Giambattista della Porta’s Magia Naturalis ('Natural Magick') uit 1658 en een kopie van de tweede editie van Isaac Newtons Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica uit 1713. In 1903 bevatte de bibliotheek circa 60.000 boeken, terwijl het 6.000 bezat, dit omdat vrouwelijke studenten geen toegang hadden tot andere bibliotheken van de universiteit. Tegenwoordig bevat de bibliotheek circa 120.000 boeken.
Cube Gallery

The CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built Environment) Gallery on Portland Street, in Manchester city centre, England, was a gallery for architecture and the built environment. It hosted regular exhibitions featuring mostly photography and architectural models (but also multimedia). It also contained a RIBA bookshop selling books on architecture, the built environment, planning, and other forms of design. CUBE was supported through the University of Salford's School of the Built Environment but closed in October 2013 as funding was withdrawn. References External links Cube Gallery website
Cuckoo Schools

Cuckoo Schools was a large school for children of destitute families which was created as the Central London District Poor Law School by the City of London and the East London and St. Saviour Workhouse Unions in 1857. It was built on the land of Cuckoo Farm on Cuckoo Hill in 190 acres (77 ha) of Hanwell. 20 acres (8.1 ha) were kept as a working farm to educate and feed the children. The school was closed down in 1933. In the same year a large housing estate began to be built on the 140-acre (57 ha) site around the school. This was completed in 1939. Some damage due to a flying bomb was sustained during World War II. The estate which became known as the Cuckoo Estate is now a conservation area. The school buildings which remain, consisting of the old administrative block, are now used as the Hanwell Community Centre on Westcott Crescent, and they have been a Grade II listed building since 19 January 1981. In 2015 the London Welsh School moved into the building. Notable former pupils Charlie Chaplin Sydney Chaplin References
Eaton Square

Der Eaton Square ist ein Platz im wohlhabenden Londoner Stadtviertel Belgravia. Er wurde im 19. Jahrhundert angelegt und gilt als teuerste Wohnadresse in Großbritannien. Die Botschaften von Belgien und Bolivien in Großbritannien haben ihren Sitz am Eaton Square. Zu den prominenten Anwohnern des Platzes zählten die Unternehmer Roman Abramovich und George Soros, die britischen Premierminister Stanley Baldwin und Neville Chamberlain sowie die Aristokraten Fürst Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Königin Wilhelmina der Niederlande und Prinzessin Katharina von Griechenland und Dänemark. Geschichte Im Jahr 1677 erhielt die Familie Grosvenor durch Heirat das Land der heutigen Londoner Stadtviertel Belgravia und Pimlico und entwickelte diese ab Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ab 1827 entstanden die Plätze Belgrave Square und Eaton Square. Zeitgleich wurde der Chester Square geplant, welcher jedoch erst 1835 realisiert wurde. Der Platz wurde nach Eaton Hall, dem Landsitz des Duke of Westminster, benannt. Im Zentrum des Platzes wurden Gärten angelegt, welche nur den Bewohnern des Platzes zugänglich sein sollten. Bis heute befinden sich die Gartenanlagen im Zentrum des Eaton Square im Privatbesitz der Anwohner. Später wurden hier auch Tennisplätze zur exklusiven Nutzung der Anwohner installiert. Prominente Anwohner Roman Abramovich (* 1966), Oligarch mit russischer, israelischer und portugiesischer Staatsbürgerschaft Harold Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh (1919–1996), Politiker Leopold Stennett Amery (1873–1955), Politiker und Journalist Stanley Baldwin, 1. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867–1947), Politiker Baron Boothby (1900–1986), Politiker Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940), Politiker Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York (* 1959), geschiedene Ehefrau des britischen Prinzen Andrew Barry Gibb (* 1946), britisch-australischer Komponist und Musikproduzent Prinzessin Katharina von Griechenland und Dänemark (1913–2007), griechische Prinzessin Hugh Grosvenor, 7. Duke of Westminster (* 1991), Großgrundbesitzer Rex Harrison (1908–1990), Schauspieler Sir Robert Helpmann (1909–1986), australischer Schauspieler John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby (1917–2005), Geschäftsmann Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), Theater- und Filmschauspielerin Fürst Metternich (1773–1859), österreichischer Diplomat, Politiker und Staatsmann Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley (1910–2003), Ehefrau des Brauereierben Bryan Walter Guinness Königin Wilhelmina der Niederlande (1880–1962), Prinzessin von Oranien-Nassau, von 1890 bis 1948 Königin der Niederlande George Peabody (1795–1869), Geschäftsmann, Investmentbanker und Philanthrop Luise Rainer (1910–2014), deutsche Schauspielerin Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), deutscher Politiker Alfred Robens (1910–1999), Gewerkschaftsfunktionär, Politiker und Industriemanager George Soros (* 1930), US-amerikanischer Investor und Philanthrop Peter Thorneycroft (1909–1994), Politiker George Tryon (1832–1893), Vizeadmiral und Oberkommandierender der britischen Mittelmeerflotte Edward Wood, 1. Earl of Halifax (1881–1959), Politiker Weblinks Einzelnachweise