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St Albans was also the site of the battles that were fought in the Wars of the Roses.

Hertfordshire's first cinema was opened in the above-bolded settlement in 1908, by the film-making pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. He opened another the following year in Letchworth, Hertfordshire: not a success -- Letchworth then, had many devoutly religious citizens who considered cinemas sinful.
 
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Letchworth was the first 'Garden City', founded in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard. The second of Howard's foundations, in 1920 (and a centenary drowned out by the pandemic) was Welwyn Garden City.
 

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Sir David Attenborough, who was born on 8th May 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex, received the Freedom of the City of Bristol on 17th December 2013.
 

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The former Manager of West Ham United and England, Ron Greenwood, lived in Twickenham early in his career. He was born at Worsthorne , near Burnley, Lancashire on 11th November 1921.
 

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The Revd Wilbert V Awdry, the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, was a curate at King's Norton from late 1940 to 1946; he was born in the vicarage at Ampfield near Romsey, Hampshire on 15th June 1911.
 

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The Revd Wilbert V Awdry, the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, was a curate at King's Norton from late 1940 to 1946; he was born in the vicarage at Ampfield near Romsey, Hampshire on 15th June 1911.

The above-bolded civil parish includes the hamlet of Gosport; not to be confused with the bigger and better-known Gosport, also in Hampshire but some twenty miles to the south-east.
 

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Harrow also has a football team with the suffix "Borough".

W. Heath Robinson (1872 -- 1944), "byword" comic artist specialising in the dreaming-up of crazy contraptions: lived for a long period, in the general area of the above-bolded settlement. His counterpart a generation later, Rowland Emett (1906 -- 1990) -- especially "into" railway-themed such stuff -- lived and worked for quite a while in Birmingham.
 
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Bontnewydd in English means 'New Bridge'. There is also a Newbridge in Monmouthshire, although its Welsh name is completely different: Trecelyn, 'Settlement of the Holly Trees'.
 

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Bontnewydd in English means 'New Bridge'. There is also a Newbridge in Monmouthshire, although its Welsh name is completely different: Trecelyn, 'Settlement of the Holly Trees'.

The above-bolded settlement is the home of world-champion boxer Joe Calzaghe CBE. A boxing champion of an earlier era: William Abednego (whence the nickname "Bendigo", by which he is best known) Thompson -- his career around the 1830s / 40s; was born in Wakefield.
 
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Wakefield was the location of the 1972 bankruptcy proceedings examining the collapse of the architectural and development empire of John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson, which led ultimately to the failing of Poulson and many of his associates and contacts for corruption. Poulson was born, and had his business headquarters (55 Ropergate) in the West Riding town of Pontefract.
 

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Bethnal Green in east London, was also the site of a World War II regrettable happening with a considerable number of fatalities -- matters of accident, not directly of enemy action. At Freckleton, an aircraft attempting in stormy weather, to land at a nearby aerodrome, crashed on to the village; at Bethnal Green, it was a situation of much loss of life in a crush of people trying, in an air-raid alert, to enter for shelter the (not yet open for traffic) Underground station.
 

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Friern Barnet Town Hall in Friern Barnet Lane was built between 1939 and 1941 to a design by Sir John Brown and A. E. Henson. The design owes much to that of Watford Town Hall, whose architect (Charles Cowles-Voysey) had played a pivotal role in judging the design competition. Another architectural work by the latter architect is the White Rock Pavilion of 1922 in Hastings.
 

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