The Hawker Centre is a sports ground in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Originally the Hawker's Sports Ground, it was built and owned by the Hawker Aircraft...
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Kingston upon Thames, colloquially known as Kingston, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England. It is situated...
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The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a borough in southwest London. The main town is Kingston upon Thames and it includes Chessington, Malden Rushett...
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Staines-upon-Thames is a market town in northwest Surrey, England, around 17 miles (28 kilometres) west of central London. It is in the Borough of Spelthorne...
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Naval College in Greenwich, London. In 1948, Hawker Siddeley acquired a factory in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, on the Richmond Road near Ham. This was...
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Borough of Kingston upon Thames is located along a stretch of the River Thames where the Hogsmill River joins the former at the town of Kingston. The Borough...
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Tiffin School (category Grammar schools in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames)
Tiffin School is a boys' grammar school in Kingston upon Thames, England. It has specialist status in both the performing arts and languages. The school...
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river, it lies on the southern bank, centred 12.2 miles (19.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Thames Ditton is just outside Greater London...
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powered by a Rolls-Royce Nene Mk 101 engine; 95 built (35 by Hawker Aircraft at Kingston upon Thames, the remainder and all subsequent production by Armstrong...
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Ham, London (category Districts of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
nearby regional-level economic centre of Kingston upon Thames. Ham is centred 9.25 miles (14.89 km) south-west of the centre of London. Together with Petersham...
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Canbury (category Districts of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames)
Canbury is a district of the northern part of Kingston upon Thames that takes its name from the historic manor that covered the area. There is evidence...
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Chessington (category Districts of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames)
Chessington is an area in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames within Greater London, which was historically part of Surrey. At the 2011 census it...
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airfield at Dunsfold Aerodrome and the parent Hawker factory in Kingston-on-Thames (now Kingston upon Thames), both in Surrey. Little of the factory or airfield...
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been completed at Hawker's Kingston upon Thames facility and the aircraft components were transported to Brooklands, Surrey, where Hawker had an assembly...
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(actor) (1996) came from Kingston Upon Thames Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (1705–1781), admiral, lived at Sunbury-on-Thames, then part of Middlesex,...
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Nash & Thompson (category Companies based in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames)
through to the Cromwell. Nash & Thompson was established in 1929 at Kingston upon Thames by business partners Archibald Goodman Frazer Nash and Esmonde Grattan...
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nationalisation and merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation. On 29 April 1977,...
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Ham House (category Grade I listed buildings in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
Tollemache Family of Ham House in Kingston upon Thames, Ham, Petersham and Elsewhere: Records, 14th cent–1945". Surrey History Centre. Retrieved 5 September 2012...
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Weybridge (category Populated places on the River Thames)
crossing point of the River Wey, which flows into the River Thames to the north of the town centre. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the Bronze...
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accommodate production of an order from Sopwith Aviation Company of Kingston upon Thames for Sopwith Pups. The original company was taken over by Whitehead...
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Aviation Company there, although their manufacturing premises were at Kingston upon Thames. Other aviation pioneers came to Brooklands before World War One...
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the London Borough of Merton to the north and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to the north-west; it also borders the Surrey boroughs of Epsom and...
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Victoria Park, Stretford Victoria Park, Tipton Victoria Place, Richmond upon Thames Victoria Quadrant, Weston-super-Mare Victoria Quays, Sheffield Victoria...
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Uxbridge (category Metropolitan centres of London)
Uxbridge name, under the care of RAF Northolt. An additional guardian, a Hawker Hurricane in the colours of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron, was added to the...
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261 (Guildford) 285 (Coulsdon & Purley) 323 (Epsom & Ewell) 328 (Kingston upon Thames) 350 (Carshalton & Wallington) 450 (Kenley) 1034 (Surbiton & Esher)...
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mistakenly fired upon by tanks and artillery of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, resulting in more casualties. 12 August – RAF Hawker Typhoons fired rockets...
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Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton, and Waltham Forest. (Epsom and...
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volunteers. Common frog and smooth newt are resident, as well as southern hawker dragonfly, common blue and red-tailed damselflies. Of the bat species using...
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parents had already settled, and took up a post as registrar in Kingston upon Thames before becoming senior registrar in Gloucestershire, where he resided...
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Transports Stacey Sutton to Zorin's mansion. The Living Daylights (1987) Hawker Siddeley Nimrod RAF British Aerospace Harrier T.4 MI6 Fairchild C-123 Provider...
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