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The Bishop Wand Church of England School

The Bishop Wand Church of England School is a secondary school with academy status located in Sunbury-on-Thames, England. The school has been co-educational since its founding and caters for students in the 11–18 age range in that it has its own sixth form. The school has seven houses, named after relevant Anglican dioceses to the life of its namesake, Bishop Wand, which compete in sports and other activities. History The Bishop Wand Church of England School was founded in 1969 to serve, alongside non-Anglican schools and a few fellow Anglican-ethos schools, the borough of Spelthorne and the London Boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and Hounslow. The prominent Anglican cleric for whom the school is named is Bishop William Wand who served 22 years as a Bishop then resigned in 1956 to serve as Canon and Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral in London. His first position was Archbishop of Brisbane and he finished in post as Bishop of London. He ministered to many people over his lifetime (1885 – 1977) and worked in many cities and towns. Bishop Wand School decided to choose some of the places where the Bishop visited and ministered as its House names. A small minority of the parish land has long belonged to St Paul's in return for annual funding and the right to appoint the vicar: in 1222 the right to appoint the vicar of Sunbury-on-Thames was transferred along with the manor from Westminster Abbey to the body representing the cathedral, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. By the agreement which gave effect to this St. Paul's were to appropriate the church, ordaining a perpetual and well-endowed vicarage. St Paul's at the direction of its Diocese of London gave up much of its remaining land to endow the school. Sixth Form Bishop Wand Church of England School offers a sixth form to both internal and external students. The sixth form offers A-level, BTEC and vocational qualifications. It consists of two year groups, year 12 and 13 with a total of around 200 students. The Director of the sixth form is Toby Wood who is assisted by the Head of Sixth form, Jane Anderson. The Bishop Wand Sixth Form also offers a unique ACE Rugby programme in collaboration with Harlequins. The ACE programme used to be in collaboration with London Irish before London Irish liquidated, and the catchment area changed to Harlequins. Facilities The facilities at the Bishop Wand Church of England School include a three-floor main building and buildings for: Languages Mathematics Sciences Humanities Arts and creative subjects IT Block Lunch hall Bishops Building Sports block Other sports and fitness facilities include: AstroTurf courts Designated fields for outdoor sports. Notable alumni Adam London, cricketer Glenn Fabry, comic book artist Matthew Parker (priest), Bishop of Stafford Jack Taylor, Ipswich Town Elliot Williams, Harlequins F.C Afolabi Fasogbon, England U20 rugby player Ollie Allan, England U20 rugby player References External links School website
Blackwell Grange Golf Club

Blackwell Grange Golf Club is a golf club situated in the Blackwell area of Darlington, County Durham, in the North East of England. History Blackwell Golf Club opened in 1931 as a nine-hole course within the grounds of Blackwell Hall. The original clubhouse was a wooden building that had been the British Pavilion at the 1930 Antwerp Trade Fair. The club adopted its current name in 1970 when the course was extended to 18 holes on land leased from the Darlington Corporation adjacent to Blackwell Grange. In 2006, the course acquired an unusual feature, as two mobile phone masts disguised as trees were erected by the side of the fourth fairway. In 2013, the club purchased nearby Stressholme Golf Club from the local council, and relocated from its former home surrounding Blackwell Grange. References External links Blackwell Grange Golf Club
The Blade, Reading

The Blade, also known as Abbey Mill House, is a high-rise and the tallest building in Reading, Berkshire, England. Used for office space, it is 86 metres (282 ft) tall and is visible from many places in the town. The first tenant to occupy the building was Kaplan Financial, who moved to the building from the original Thames Tower. Building The high-rise building was proposed in 2001, and construction lasted from 2007 to 2009. It cost £32 million to build. The 86-metre (282 ft) steel building has 14 floors above ground level; the floor-to-floor height is 3.77 metres (12.4 ft). The building's façade is a curtain wall system of aluminium and glass, and the building is strengthened with a pile foundation. The spire atop the building is a lattice frame covered with rainscreen panels. The height of the building is 128 m (420 ft) above ground level. The Blade has 110,000 sq ft (10,000 m2) for office use, 7,200 sq ft (670 m2) of space of which was let to Gateley, a law firm, for £34 per sq ft, one of the highest rents Reading has achieved. References External links Media related to The Blade, Reading at Wikimedia Commons Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2017)
The Bladebone Inn

The Bladebone Inn is a public house at Chapel Row in the civil parish of Bucklebury in the English county of Berkshire. History Records show that there has been an inn on the site since the mid-17th century. The current red-brick building, however, is undated. The pub was the location for Courts leet and baron on behalf of Bucklebury manor, and was often part of the Chapel Row Fair. In 1790, the sons of George III attended a prize fight there between "Hooper", one of Lord Barrymore's men, and "Big Ben Brain". The bout lasted almost three-and-a-half hours and 180 rounds, and was eventually called a draw. Name The name comes from the blade bone of a mammoth that was killed by prehistoric hunters. The skeletal remains of the animal were found preserved in the silt of the Kennet Valley; the name "Bladebone" was used to refer to the pub by 1666. The bone is encased in copper and hangs from the front of the pub as the pub sign. The copper casing is regularly repaired, and the bone within has been found to be preserved in an excellent state. Ownership In 1922, the pub was bought by Strange's Brewery of Aldermaston for £3,500(equivalent to approximately £150,000 in 2008). The brewery already rented the pub – along with a portion of the Bucklebury estate – for £86 (£3,500 in 2008) per annum. The pub was later owned by Whitbread. It is currently a free house, and regularly stocks ales from the West Berkshire Brewery. In the arts In the 1950s, Robert Still composed The Ballad of the Bladebone Inn, inspired by the pub. Describing a tale explaining the name and sign of the pub, the composition's debut performance was at the Royal Festival Hall on 23 October 1957. Stanley Bayliss of The Musical Times described the performance as "duly bucolic" with "pleasant tunes", but saw that it failed to send a "shiver down the spine." References
The Blind Beggar

The Blind Beggar is a pub in Whitechapel Road in the East End of London, England, at the junction with Cambridge Heath Road. Owing to its location close to Whitechapel Station, the pub is often described as being in Whitechapel. Strictly speaking, however, it stands just on the Bethnal Green side of the historic boundary between Bethnal Green and Whitechapel. The pub takes its name from the ballad and legend The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green. The pub is reputed to be built on the site on which the blind beggar begged. It is where Ronnie Kray murdered George Cornell in front of witnesses. It is also the location of William Booth's first sermon, which led to the creation of the Salvation Army. It was the nearest outlet (or brewery tap) for the Manns Albion brewery, where the first modern brown ale was brewed. The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654. History The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654, and named after the famous ballad. In 1865, William Booth preached his first open-air sermon outside the Blind Beggar, which led to the establishment of the East London Christian Mission, later to become the Salvation Army. William Booth is commemorated by a nearby statue. The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters the Kray twins. On 9 March 1966, Ronnie Kray shot and murdered George Cornell, an associate of a rival gang, the Richardsons, as he was sitting at the bar. The murder took place in the then saloon bar. The pub is also a popular starting point for the Monopoly pub crawl, despite being located on the board's third space. The pub was frequented by Harry Redknapp and was at one stage owned by Bobby Moore. Henry de Montfort legend The pub takes its name from the ballad and legend The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green. It stands at the junction of the Whitechapel Road (part of the route from the Aldgate to Colchester later known as the Great Essex Road) and Cambridge Heath Road, and is reputed to be on the site of the beggar's activities. In some versions of the ballad, the beggar was an impoverished noble, Henry de Montfort. In the legend, de Montfort was wounded and lost his sight in the Battle of Evesham in 1265. He was nursed to health by a baroness, and together they had a child named Besse. He became the "Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green" and used to beg at the crossroads. The story of how he went from landed gentry to poor beggar became popular in the Tudor era, and was revived by Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, published in 1765. In 1900, the legend was depicted on the seal of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green. References Citations Sources Sullivan, Edward (2000). Evening Standard London Pub Bar Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-86840-0. External links Media related to The Blind Beggar at Wikimedia Commons Official website
The Blue

The Blue is a central market place in Bermondsey, southeast London. The market is open Monday to Saturday from 9 am until 5 pm and has about 10 stall holders, selling food and clothes. The area has been known locally as The Blue for more than two hundred and thirty years and is probably named after the original Blue Anchor public house that gave its name to Blue Anchor Lane. The market has capacity for 24 stalls. Immediately north of Blue Anchor Lane on an arched viaduct are the multiple railway tracks of the Brighton and South East Main Lines. The Blue Anchor Lane joins St. James's Road where the viaduct arches to the immediate north west contain the remnants of the disused Spa Road railway station which was the original terminus of London's first railway. In 2005 a Metropolitan Police report described the area as a crime hotspot for "race crime and youth disorder". In October 2014 The Blue became a Business Improvement District (BID). References Further reading Art Bermondsey Blue Market mural, positivearts.co.uk, 25 June 2011, retrieved 15 March 2013: "a large mural project funded by Southwark, Cleaner greener safer department and organised in partnership with Community Space Challenge. We transformed a dull and neglected wall to create a large mural depicting the famous ‘Blue Market’ in the 1960s featuring a traditional scene with barrow boy and original stalls". Craven, Stephen (23 July 2011), The Bermondsey Lion, Geograph Project Limited, retrieved 15 March 2013: "The sculpture was designed and made by local blacksmith Kevin Boys, and cost about £60,000." Commercial "Blue Bermondsey", Blue Bermondsey, 10 December 2014, retrieved 26 September 2017 BBBA staff (March 2013), The Blue Bermondsey Business Association's website, The Blue Bermondsey Business Association (BBBA), retrieved 15 March 2013 SC staff (March 2013), The Blue, Southwark Council, retrieved 15 March 2013
The Bottle Inn

The Bottle Inn is a 16th-century public house at Marshwood in Dorset, England which hosts the World Nettle Eating Championship. It is Grade II listed. History The building started life in 1585 as an ale house, being close to a church where people came to pay their tithes. It was named The Bottle Inn, some time late in the 18th century, when it became the first inn in the area to sell bottled beers. The Bottle Inn was purchased as a free house (not tied to any one brewery) in 1982 from Ushers Brewery by Michael and Pauline Brookes. In 2014, the public house won the CAMRA award for West Dorset pub of the year. World Nettle Eating Championship The Bottle Inn hosts the annual World Nettle Eating Championships as part of a charity beer festival. Competitors are served 2-foot (0.61 m) long stalks of stinging nettles from which they pluck and eat the leaves. After an hour the bare stalks are measured and the winner is the competitor with the greatest accumulated length of nettles. The contest began in the late 1980s when two farmers argued over who had the longest stinging nettles in their field and evolved into the World Nettle Eating Championships when one of the farmers promised to eat any nettle which was longer than his. The championship has separate men's and women's sections and attracts competitors from as far afield as Canada and Australia. In June 2010 Sam Cunningham, a fishmonger from Somerset won the contest, after eating 74 feet (23 m) of nettles. In June 2014 Phillip Thorne, a chef from Colyton, Devon won the contest, after eating 80 feet (24 m) of nettles. In 2017 the Overall Champion was Jonathan Searle from Solihull who munched his way through 70 feet of nettles whilst the Women's Prize went to Kate Ribton of Stoke St Gregory, in Somerset, who got through 28 feet (8.5 m) of the plant. References External links Official website
The Bottoms (SSSI)

The Bottoms is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham, England. It lies just south of the A181 road, roughly midway between the Cassop and Wheatley Hill villages, some 10 km south-east of Durham city. The site's interest lies in unimproved magnesian limestone grassland, where blue moor-grass, Sesleria albicans, and small scabious, Scabiosa columbaria, are the dominant species. This is a scarce vegetation type found only in County Durham, and the extent of which has been severely reduced by quarrying and intensive agriculture. Other grasses that are frequent in the sward include meadow oat-grass, Avenula pratensis, quaking grass, Briza media, sheep's fescue, Festuca ovina, crested hairgrass, and Koeleria macrantha. There is a rich variety of herbs, including rock-rose, Helianthemum nummularium, glaucous sedge, Carex flacca, spring sedge, C. caryophyllea, and mouse-ear hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum, and a small population of purple milk-vetch, Astragalus danicus, a local rarity on magnesian limestone. References External links Hunter, Amanda (1999). "Designated Sites View: The Bottoms SSSI". designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "Magicmap:The Bottoms SSSI". magic.defra.gov.uk. DEFRA. 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "Operations likely to damage the special interest" (PDF). designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "Views about management: The Bottoms SSSI" (PDF). designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Natural England. 4 March 2003. Retrieved 6 April 2021. Loring, Jenny (4 July 2013). "Designated sites view: Condition of SSSI Units for Site The Bottoms SSSI". designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "The Bottoms SSSI". walkandfork.com. Walk and Fork. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
Bramcote College

The Bramcote School was a co-educational secondary school located in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, England. It was a member of The White Hills Park Federation Trust. The school serves students from ages 11 to 18 and has a student body of over 1,200 pupils. History Secondary modern school This was the first school to be built on the Bramcote Hills Site. In 1948 it opened as a Secondary Modern boys school named Bramcote Hills Boys School. Comprehensive It later became a comprehensive school titled The Park Comprehensive. At 5am on Monday 17 October 1994, a white Vauxhall Astra, with false number plates, rammed into the building, causing £1.4m of fire damage. Two 15 year old boys from Stapleford were charged. Bramcote Park Comprehensive School became a Business and Enterprise school in 2004. After receiving business status, it re-branded its image by announced a new logo and identity, consisting of red, white and blue. In 2007 the school became part of a three-piece federation, named The White Hills Park Federation Trust under one executive headteacher. The School was federated with neighbouring Bramcote Hills Sport & Community College and nearby Alderman White School. After the complete closure of Bramcote Hills School in 2011, the school adopted their status as a specialist Sports College. On 1 October 2012 the school converted to academy status, and rebranded from Bramcote Park Sports, Business & Enterprise School to 'The Bramcote School'. In the summer of 2017, the school closed its old site and moved into buildings shared with Bramcote College Sixth Form, and began operating and branding under the name 'Bramcote College'. On 16 September 2021, a fire broke out within the old school building; investigations into the cause of the fire are unknown. The buildings were demolished in August 2022. The site will know house a secondary school for the neighbouring Foxwood Academy. Campus It was located to the south of Bramcote Woods, and to the east of Bramcote Park recreational and open grounds. It was part of a larger campus of schools build around the 1950s, which include Foxwood Academy, and the former Bramcote Hills Sport & Community College now a sixth form centre and part of Alderman White School. Access to the school was from the eastbound A52 to Nottingham and shared a drive with Bramcote Leisure Centre and Foxwood Academy. There is also a restricted vehicular and pedestrian access to the site of the former Bramcote Hills Sport & Community College following the creation of the federation, to enable staff and student movements between the schools. References External links Bramcote College White Hills Park Federation
The Brewery (shopping centre)

The Brewery is a shopping and leisure centre in Romford town centre, in the London Borough of Havering, England. It is located on the site of the former Star Brewery, and it opened in 2001. It is—along with The Liberty and The Mercury—one of the three main shopping centres in Romford. In 2010, a 25% stake in the complex was sold by the Henderson Group to Prudential Property Investment Managers for £44.25m. At the time of the sale, its location in east London, mix of retail and leisure uses, and the Sainsbury's anchor store were explained as factors for its sustained success during the late-2000s recession. Leisure uses in the centre include a bowling and amusement arcade unit, a cinema, and a number of restaurants. The Brewery is located within Romford's town centre and is near to Romford railway station. A number of London Buses serve the centre and route 165 terminates within The Brewery car park. History In 1708, the Star Brewery was founded as a change for Romford. For 285 years, it served as a main industry, and occupied 20 acres of land and had 1000 workers by 1970. In 1993, the Star Brewery permanently closed and was later demolished. In 1999, construction for The Brewery Shopping Centre began on the plot of the old Star Brewery – and by May of 2001 construction was completed and The Brewery subsequently opened. Services that came with its opening included Sainsbury's, which had moved from The Mercury, and Ster Century Cinemas, along with many other services. However, Ster Century was replaced by Vue in 2005, after a buyout. References External links Official website
The Bridge School, Ipswich

The Bridge School is a coeducational special school located in Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. The school was formed in 2010 as a result of the merger of Heathside Primary School and Belstead School, both of which were designated as special schools. The school has 20 nursery pupils, 100 primary and 60 secondary. The schools are located on one single site in Sprites Lane in Ipswich following completion of the new Primary School on land adjacent to the Secondary School. The secondary school educates children from ages 11 to 16 The primary campus has a nursery attached to it which children can join from age 3. The school is previously governed by an IEB or Interim Executive Board. However Suffolk County Council confirmed by letter on 8 February 2018 that there were no plans to convert the school to an academy following mixed communications and parent pressure. Despite this the school converted to academy status on 1 June 2019 and is now sponsored by the Unity Schools Partnership. References External links The Bridge School official website
The Brindley

The Brindley is a theatre in the town of Runcorn, Cheshire, England. Located by the Bridgewater Canal, the centre is named after the canal's engineer, James Brindley. It opened in autumn 2004; the architects were John Miller and Partners. The building is owned and operated by Halton Borough Council. Design and construction Halton Borough Council were concerned about the building's impact on the environment and about its energy requirements. Therefore "low energy, high efficiency techniques" were used in its construction. These include a TermoDeck slab system, a storage technique for controlling the environment within large and medium-sized buildings using hollow cores within pre-cast concrete floor slabs as ventilation ducts. Facilities The venue consists of a 420-seat main auditorium playing host to touring productions, a professional pantomime each Christmas season, local amateur shows and in-house productions, a 108-seat studio which also serves as a single screen cinema, an exhibition and gallery space, an education room, a dark room, a digital imaging room, dressing rooms, a meeting room, a bar and a café overlooking the Bridgewater Canal. Awards The centre has won several awards for its architecture: The Centre Vision Award from The Civic Trust in 2005, the Excellence in Access award from the ADAPT Trust (Access for Disabled People to Arts Premises Today), and the Architectural Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. RIBA praised the building for fitting into its context, using the canal-side location to give views, and making good use of its budget. It also won the Open Award for Technical Excellence in Architectural Technology 2008. For its community activities, The Brindley won the title Best Arts Project in the UK at The National Lottery Awards in 2007. In May 2008, the theatre won the Best Performance Venue Award at the Mersey Partnership Tourism Awards 2008. References External links The Brindley Arts Centre (RIBA) (with photograph from the canal side)
The Brocket Arms

The Brocket Arms is a country inn in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. According to Historic England, the timber-framed building is probably early sixteenth century, although an earlier date has been claimed. The Brocket Arms is near Old St Lawrence Church, and, was supposedly "the monastic quarters" for the church until the Reformation. Another claim is that it was a "stop off point for pilgrims" on their way to St Albans Abbey. Hauntings It is said to be haunted by a priest who was tried and hanged in the building. Others say it is of a monk who hanged himself at the inn. See also Brocket Hall References External links Official site