owned by the Powis brothers. In the late 1840s around 1,000 people lived in Powis Street. Most shops were at the east end of the street, close to Woolwich...
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Powis may refer to: Alfred Powis, Canadian businessperson Carl Powis (1928–1999), American baseball player Geoff Powis (1945–2001), Canadian ice hockey...
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which Woolwich had many). Powis Street and Hare Street, laid out in the early 19th century, became the main shopping streets. A number of Victorian shop...
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Maritime Greenwich College, later South London College. Powis Street HQ, 1847-1896 Powis Street HQ, 1896-1935 (the corner building) Equitable House HQ...
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Bathway Quarter (section Wellington Street)
linen merchant. Thomas Street and William Street (now Calderwood Street) were laid out around 1805, taking their names from the Powis brothers. Around the...
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The streets include Wynnstay Street, Voelas Street, Rhiwlas Street, Powis Street, Madryn Street, Kinmel Street, Gwydir Street, Pengwern Street and Treborth...
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entrances to Woolwich's subterranean end of the DLR, and faces the top of Powis Street, a long, semi-pedestrianised retail avenue. It is named after the area's...
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Old Woolwich (section High Street west)
commercial heart of Woolwich, which is centred around Beresford Square and Powis Street. Woolwich Central Riverside has been inhabited at least since the 1st...
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be constructed. Additional bridges would be built across Vincent Street, Powis Street, and Scarborough Beach Road for the new carriageway and the railway...
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this improved after 1873, when the store moved to larger premises in Powis Street, next but one to the house in which the Woolwich Equitable Building Society...
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Toxteth (section Welsh Streets)
other streets would be undertaken, with later refurbishment work undertaken on Rhiwlas Street, Powis Street, Madryn Street, and Kinmel Street. Toxteth...
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Perth Busport – serves Harborne Street and Powis Street 85 Glendalough Station to Perth Busport – serves Harborne Street and Jon Sanders Drive 95 Glendalough...
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alley that no longer exists, off Beresford Square, between Powis Street and Beresford Street. Maudslay began work at the age of 12 as a "powder monkey"...
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Initially, three new road bridges were constructed over Vincent Street, Powis Street, and Scarborough Beach Road. Once the road bridges had been completed...
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Powis, DL, JP (24 June 1862 – 9 November 1952), known as George Herbert until 1891, was a British peer. Herbert was born at Number 26, Bruton Street,...
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Queen Square. The first version of Powis House was built in the 1690s for William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, member of the Herbert family. No drawings...
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a Grade II* listed building. Thomas Powis was probably born in Chepstow in or about 1675, the son of Grevill Powis who may have been attached to the garrison...
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2010". BBC News. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2015. "Chapter 4 – Powis Street and Green's End Areas Survey of London – English Heritage p. 2012" (PDF)...
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Woolwich market (Beresford Square) and the town's main shopping street (Powis Street), it was thought that the Auto Stacker, along with the introduction...
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Lord Powis made a Grand Tour in Italy in 1775–76, when he probably acquired a collection of marble sculpture preserved at his family seat, Powis Castle...
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Herbert, a younger son of Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, and Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis. His maternal grandparents were Sir Hedworth Williamson...
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Liverpool has 'Welsh Streets', a series of streets named after Welsh places, including Rhiwlas St, Gwydir St, Powis St and Madryn Street, where Beatles drummer...
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including Powis Castle, and was summoned to parliament as Marquess of Powis on 8 October 1722. By Jacobites, he was styled Duke of Powis, and he and...
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The builders, Bovis Ltd, started work in 1936 after the west end of Powis Street had been widened. It opened on 20 April 1937 with Good Morning, Boys...
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Limavady, Ballykelly and Cumber districts and, in 1812, the freehold of the Powis Street estate at Woolwich. Leslie Ogilby's will (TNA, PROB11/202/289) recognised...
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Notting Hill Gate (category Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
television comedy Absolutely Fabulous (season 4, "Paralox"). The loft at 18 Powis Terrace was used as the cast residence for the American reality TV show...
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in County Londonderry and at Woolwich. His Woolwich estate, based on Powis Street, included commercial properties that had been redeveloped under his father's...
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serves Powis Street 81 and 82 Perth Busport to City Beach – serve Cambridge Street 83 Perth Busport to City Beach – serves Cambridge Street, Harborne...
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Newtown, Powys (redirect from Newtown, Powis)
offices in Brisco House, Broad Street. A statue of Robert Owen was erected in 1956 in a park off Shortbridge Street and Gas Street. A replica of this was later...
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Beresford Square (category Streets in the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
Woolwich New Road, the Bathway Quarter, Powis Street, Hare Street, Mortgramit Square, parts of Woolwich High Street (south) and St Mary's Church and Gardens...
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