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London and Island
His early career in the 1930s was as a painter in London, although he lived on the Channel Island of Sark for a time.
A “ Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, 16 November 1788 ”, published in the London newspaper, The World, 15 May 1789, reported the glowing description of the island and its prospects by Philip Gidley King, but also drew attention to the fatal defect of the lack of a safe port: “ The said Island lies near Port Jackson, and is nearly as large as the Isle of Wight.
St Edward the Confessor, the penultimate Saxon monarch of England, built a royal palace on Thorney Island just west of the City of London at about the same time as he built Westminster Abbey ( 1045 – 50 ).
* Jackson, E. L. St Helena: The Historic Island, Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1903
* Brooke, T. H., A History of the Island of St Helena from its Discovery by the Portuguese to the Year 1806 ”, Printed for Black, Parry and Kingsbury, London, 1808
* Duncan, Francis, A Description of the Island Of St Helena Containing Observations on its Singular Structure and Formation and an Account of its Climate, Natural History, and Inhabitants, London, Printed For R Phillips, 6 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, 1805
* Melliss, John C. M., St Helena: A Physical, Historical and Topographical Description of the Island Including Geology, Fauna, Flora and Meteorology, L. Reeve & Co, London, 1875
The Island of South Georgia is said to have been first sighted in 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, a London merchant, and was named Roche Island on a number of early maps.
In the same year, to test his ideas, he gathered 21 boys of mixed social backgrounds ( from boy's schools in the London area and a section of boys from the Poole, Parkstone, Hamworthy, Bournemouth, and Winton Boys ' Brigade units ) and held a week-long camp in August on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England.
There is no direct service to Ascension Island and the United Kingdom, without flying from Cape Town to London or travelling on the RMS St Helena from Cape Town to St Helena.
* Pemba: The Spice Island of Zanzibar, J. E. E. Craster, ( London, 1913 )
* Jean de Chantal Kennedy, Isle of Devils: Bermuda under the Somers Island Company ( Collins, London, 1971 )
* Henry C. Wilkinson, Bermuda from Sail to Steam: The History of the Island from 1784 to 1901: Volumes I and II ( Oxford University, London, 1973 )
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.
Cream finished their tour of the United States with a 4 November concert in Rhode Island and performed in the UK for the last time in London on 25 and 26 November.
During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.
After a spell in Dublin he returned to London in 1702 for a revival of The Island Princess and a new production of Macbeth billed as " with music Vocal and Instrumental, all new Composed by Mr Leveridge ".
* James Neale ( 1615 – 1684 ), born London, England, immigrated 1634, founded Wollaston Manor plantation and Cobb Island
Bags are dropt at New London, Stommington, Rhode Island, and Bristol.
There are offices keept at Burlington, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, New London and Stommington in Connecticott, at Rhode Island, Bristol, Ipswich, Salem, Marblehead, & Newberry.
* New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada
* Dreyfus: Prisoner of Devil's Island – Music Theatre piece – Music and Lyrics by Bryan Kesselman, St Giles Cripplegate, London, November 1998 ; Part of the 9th London international Jewish Music Festival.

London and alternative
Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).
Jeepster Records is a London, England-based independent record label, founded in 1995, and specialising in British indie and alternative bands-particularly Glasgow-based acts.
I ( London: Macmillan, 1877, 1894 ) ( alternative link: Bibliothèque Nationale de France OR ( Cambridge: University Press, reissued 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-03220-9 )
* The Theory of Sound vol. II ( London: Macmillan, 1878, 1896 ) ( alternative link: Bibliothèque Nationale de France ) OR ( Cambridge: University Press, reissued 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-03221-6 )
Hence, it is a popular English usage in the underground comic book Merton of the Movement, by Bobby London, while ideologically sound, an alternative term, followed a like lexical path, appearing in Bart Dickon ’ s satirical comic strips.
* Scanners ( band ), an alternative band from London
* February 1 – Lyricist / guitarist Richey Edwards of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers goes missing from a hotel in Bayswater, London on the eve of a planned tour of the United States.
London in 2003 and extended in 2007 ( see London congestion charge ); Stockholm in 2006, as seven month trial, and then on a permanent basis since August 2007 ( see Stockholm congestion tax ); and since January 2008, Milan introduced a traffic charge scheme as a one-year trial, called Ecopass, that exempts higher emission standard vehicles ( Euro IV ) and other alternative fuel vehicles.
In 1919 an alternative route was published, building a tunnelled link to the disused London and South Western Railway ( L & SWR ) tracks south of the L & SWR's Shepherd's Bush station then via Hammersmith ( Grove Road ) railway station and Turnham Green.
They came to prominence in the early 1980s for performing at the London comedy club The Comic Strip, which also gave its name to the television series and the informal grouping of so-called alternative comedians.
An alternative theory suggests the name may mean ' Cripple Well ', and that the settlement developed as a hamlet where people from the City of London were expelled when they had life threatening diseases like leprosy, for treatment by the church and the clean, healing waters from the wells.
Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.
An alternative pronunciation, used by the London Underground in announcements at Highgate tube station, is, where the final syllable matches the last syllable in " tag it ".
Notting Hill therefore forms the major part of North Kensington, and is considered an alternative name ;< ref name = LondonEncyc >< cite > The London Encyclopaedia, Edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert.
In 1979, the first American-style stand-up comedy club, the Comedy Store, London was opened in London by Peter Rosengard, where many alternative comedy stars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson began their careers.
Hughes ' autobiography A London Home in the 1890s repeatedly refers to halma as an alternative to chess for relaxation, though the actual playing is never described.
Stereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England.
It was organised as an anti-authoritarian alternative to the European Social Forum, happening in London at the same time.
The main alternative to road transport for the carriage of goods between Bristol and London was a hazardous sea route through the English Channel.
The railway was built in 1869 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway ( MS & LR ) and the North Staffordshire Railway ( NSR ), as a part of a quest to provide an alternative link between Manchester and the south, that was independent of the London and North Western Railway ( L & NWR ).
Commercial galleries had shown a lack of interest in the project, and it was held in a cheap alternative space, a London Docklands admin block ( usually referred to as a warehouse ).
Established alternative spaces such as City Racing at the Oval in London and Milch gave many artists their first exposure.

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