Abney Hall is a Victorian house surrounded by a park in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, (grid reference SJ85958923) built in 1847. It is a Grade...
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Christie left for her sister's residence at Abney Hall, Cheadle, where she was sequestered "in guarded hall, gates locked, telephone cut off, and callers...
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grandmother, Clarissa Miller. Watts family moved to Cheadle Hall in 1915, and to Abney Hall in 1926. Jack was educated at Shrewsbury School, then entered...
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Abney Park Abney Hall Abney and Abney Grange Topographic Abney level This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Abney. If an internal...
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Mayor of Manchester (1855–1857), High Sheriff of Lancashire and owner of Abney Hall. He was the owner of S & J Watts Limited, who built the Watts Warehouse...
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apparently did not recognise him until later when she was recovering at Abney Hall, her sister's house. Christie issued a statement to the press that his...
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was thirteen and joined her mother in looking after him at his home, Abney Hall, when her sister and brother-in-law went on skiing holidays to St Moritz...
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inspired by a visit to a sale at Marple Hall in the same town, near her sister Margaret Watts' home at Abney Hall. The character of Jane Marple in the first...
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inspiration there for the many books and hymns that he wrote. Watts lived at Abney Hall in Stoke Newington until his death in 1748; he was buried in Bunhill Fields...
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Moseley Old Hall, an early Stuart mansion dating from 1666 is still standing and is owned privately. Abney Hall is a late Victorian hall from 1847 and...
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28 February 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2014. "Bridgewater Hall facts and figures". bridgewater-hall.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved...
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idea of the novel was given to her by her brother-in-law, James Watts of Abney Hall, who suggested a novel in which the criminal would be a Dr Watson character...
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Abney Park cemetery is one of the "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries in London, England. Abney Park in Stoke Newington in the London Borough of Hackney is...
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country house, the seat of the fictional Marquesses of Caterham, based on Abney Hall in Cheshire. The Chimney Murder (1929) was an unrelated novel by E. M...
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in Manchester, with exteriors filmed at Maine Road football ground and Abney Hall in Cheadle. In the film, veteran comedian Sandy Powell performed one of...
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and academic, her mother a great-granddaughter of Sir James Watts of Abney Hall, mayor of Manchester in the 1850s and grandfather of Conservative party...
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Bramall Hall is a largely Tudor manor house in Bramhall, Greater Manchester, England. The building is timber-framed and its oldest parts date from the...
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William de Wiveleslie Abney KCB FRS FRSE (24 July 1843 – 3 December 1920) was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer. Abney was born in Derby,...
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her that her daughter Rosalind (who was in the care of her sister at Abney Hall), was seriously ill with pneumonia. Christie set off for home by a four-day...
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Kemp. Filming took place in Liverpool, as well as at Walton Hall in Warrington and at Abney Hall in Cheadle. When BBC said there would be no second series...
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Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, England Buildings Abney Hall Barnes Hospital, Cheadle Bramall Hall Broadstone Mill, Reddish Cheadle Hulme School Elder...
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Grove Abney Hall Agecroft Hall (moved to USA) Alkrington Hall Ancoats Hall (demolished) Atherton Hall, Leigh (demolished) Baguley Hall Bamford Hall (demolished)...
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Marple, Greater Manchester (section Marple Hall)
sister Margaret "Madge" had married Sir James Watt of Abney Hall) they went to a sale at Marple Hall. There Christie bought two Jacobean oak chairs which...
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Limekilns and the Marple Aqueduct. Stockport has 14 local nature reserves: Abney Hall Park, Carr Wood, Chadkirk Country Estate, Crookilley Woods, Etherow Country...
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Underbank Hall is a 16th-century town house in the centre of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (grid reference SJ895905). The hall dates back to...
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Cheadle Hulme and Heald Green. It used Bruntwood Hall as its town hall from 1944 to 1959, and Abney Hall from 1960 to 1974. Makepeace, Chris E. (1988)....
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include: Barbara Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun (1919–2002), British aristocrat Charles Abney Hastings (1792–1858), of Willesley Hall, Derbyshire...
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Calvin Abney is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer. Abney currently resides in Austin, Texas. Abney was born...
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Stockport Town Hall is a building in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, that houses the government and administrative functions of Stockport Metropolitan...
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and Clerks' Orphan Schools, it sent pupils to an existing school in Shaw Hall, Flixton, before it moved into its own premises in Park Place, Ardwick, in...
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