The series was transmitted between 1970 and 1972 and examined the lives of the lower middle-class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool and their experiences from 1938 and through the Second World War.

Colbatch brought an action against him, and Middleton wrote a longer and more temperate rejoinder ( possibly helped by Charles Ashton ).

Following a cabinet shuffle on September 25, 2002, Ashton became Minister of Conservation ( in which capacity he argued for national approval of the Kyoto Accord on climate change ).

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

Lord used synthesizers more than ever before, principally to retain an intimacy with the material and to create a jam atmosphere with old friends like Tony Ashton.

Although much of Balanchine's work epitomized the genre, some choreographers like the British Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan were also great neoclassical choreographers.

" Of all the leading British choreographers, Darrell is most like Ashton in being sensitive to the spirit of the time ; not just following fashion, but feeling the way people move, think and behave, and reflecting it in his work "

Whatever label you choose, it can be comfortably affixed to A Lot Like Love, an Ashton Kutcher-Amanda Peet vehicle that is a lot like When Harry Met Sally, which was itself a lot like Annie Hall.

It included the three main towns of Clevedon on the west coast, Nailsea to the south, and Portishead to the north, along with smaller surrounding villages like Backwell, Easton-in-Gordano, and Long Ashton.

General Service Studio was also the ' home away from home ' for various ' studio brats ' like Ricky Nelson, Connie Harkins, and Zane Ashton.

At the time he shared his thoughts with Clark Ashton Smith, another colleague: " Sent a three-part serial to Wright yesterday: ' Red Nails ,' which I devoutly hope he'll like.

They dominated districts like West Mount Airy's Pelham section ( a Wendell and Smith development from 1890s ), East Mount Airy's Gowen Avenue ( the James Gowen Estate development from 1880s ), Sedgwick Farms ( an Ashton S. Tourison development from 1905 ), and Stenton ( a Frank Mauran development from 1905 ) areas.

In the first half of the 20th century pulp fiction writers like Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith helped popularise the sword and sorcery branch of fantasy, which often utilised prehistoric and non-European settings beside elements of the medieval.

After much debate about what kind of person should be President, the European Council agreed on a low-key personality and chose Herman Van Rompuy while foreign policy-novice Catherine Ashton became High Representative.

The earlier tales owe as much to Clark Ashton Smith as to Robert E. Howard.

On 13 August 1842 there was a strike at Bayley's Cotton Mill in Stalybridge, and roving cohorts of operatives carried the stoppage first to the whole area of Stalybridge and Ashton, then to Manchester, and subsequently to towns adjacent to Manchester, using as much force as was necessary to bring mills to a standstill.

Ashton Moss, a peat bog, lies to the west of the town and was originally much larger.

In 1967, the band came under the direction of Edward Ashton, with whom the band gained much success and a reputation for consistently playing music to a high standard.

He was mentored by a much older Ambrose Bierce, and became close friends with Jack London, and Clark Ashton Smith, and later mentor to Robinson Jeffers.

... he old Borough of Preston, the township of Fishwick, so much of the Municipal Borough as is not included in the Parliamentary Borough, the Local Government District of Fulwood, and so much of the parishes of Lea, Ashton, Ingol, and Cotham

Its purpose was to carry limestone from the vast quarries around Dove Holes down to Bugsworth Basin via Chapel-en-le-Frith and Chinley, where much of it was taken by boat along the Peak Forest Canal and the Ashton Canal to Manchester and beyond.

The club were relegated at the end of the 2001 – 02 season, but Hulse, along with Dean Ashton and Rodney Jack, proved to be too much for fellow Division Two defences to handle in 2002 – 03.

* March 20 – Catherine Ashton, British politician

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

* Norman Ashton, British housing developer, notable for work in the North of England in the 1960s and 1970s.

* Ashton College, a private post-secondary college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

* Avro Ashton, a 1950s British experimental jet airliner

The " Ashton " part probably derives from the Anglo-Saxon meaning " settlement by ash trees ", the origin of the " under-Lyne " element is less clear: it could derive from the British lemo meaning elm, or may refer to Ashton being " under the line " of the Pennines.

Brian Carlson scored the only Australian try ten minutes from time-much too late to prevent British captain Eric Ashton from collecting the World Cup.

* Joseph Ashton ( politician ) ( born 1933 ) former British MP, usually known as Joe Ashton

Joseph William Ashton OBE ( born 9 October 1933 ), usually known as Joe Ashton, is a British Labour Party politician who was known for his defence of the rights of Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ) against the demands of the left-wing of the party to subject them to mandatory reselection.

David Alan Heyes ( born 2 April 1946 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Ashton under Lyne since 2001.

John Mann ( born 10 January 1960 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bassetlaw since 2001, after the retirement of previous MP Joe Ashton.

Woodford Green with Essex Ladies is one of the leading British athletics clubs and is based at Ashton Fields.

Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, PC ( born 20 March 1956 ) is a British Labour politician who in 2009 became the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The Ashton Canal was one of seven stretches of canal, formerly designated as remainder waterways, which were re-classified by the British Waterways Act of 8 February 1983.

The pioneer of British Art Therapy, Edward Adamson and his partner and collaborator, John Timlin, were regular visitors to Ashton Wold.

Musicals Society concert was held February 13-16, 2008 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, British Columbia, directed by Scott Ashton Swan.

After the death of Richard Molyneux in 1738 and his widow in 1766, Woolton Hall was acquired by Nicholas Ashton, High Sheriff of Lancashire, whose father was one of the original undertakers and the principal financier of the Sankey Canal, the first canal of the British industrial revolution.

Ashton Pelham-Martyn ( Ash ) is the son of a British botanical scientist traveling through India, who is born on the road shortly before the Sepoy uprising of 1857.

Set to music by John Lanchbery with choreography by Frederick Ashton and performed in character costume by members of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera House orchestra.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Clark Ashton Smith was the third member of the great triumvirate of Weird Tales, with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

MI5 is also said to have suspected CND's treasurer, Cathy Ashton, of being a communist sympathiser because she shared a house with a communist.

He did, however, correspond regularly with other contemporary writers, such as Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth, people who became good friends of his, even though they never met in person.

New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and most notably John McAdam, with the first ' macadamised ' stretch of road being Marsh Road at Ashton Gate, Bristol in 1816.

* Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique and Hyperborean tales, beginning with " The Empire of the Necromancers " and The Tale of Satampra Zeiros in 1932 and 1931 respectively.

The 2005 film Guess Who starring Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac is a loose remake styled as a comedy rather than a drama, with the racial roles reversed ; black parents are caught off-guard when their daughter brings home the young white man she has chosen to marry.

* The ballet Pomona, with music by Constant Lambert, choreography by Frederick Ashton and scenery and costumes by Vanessa Bell, first performed by the Vic-Wells Ballet at the Sadler's Wells Theatre on 17 January 1933.

To earn money to buy some " real food " to supplement the spartan diet the nuns are able to provide him, Smith gets a part-time job with the nearby construction contractor, Ashton ( director Ralph Nelson, uncredited ), who is impressed that Smith can handle nearly every piece of heavy equipment he owns.

Ashton is from the southwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, from Grand Teton National Park, and from the Grand Teton with a clear view.

The United States Census Bureau combines Ashton with the nearby community of Sandy Spring to form the Census-Designated Place of Ashton-Sandy Spring, and all census data are tabulated for this combined entity.

The United States Census Bureau combines Sandy Spring with the nearby community of Ashton to form the census-designated place of Ashton-Sandy Spring, and all census data are tabulated for this combined entity.

The boater can use the Macclesfield Canal to head for Marple, and the junction with the Peak forest Canal ( and hence, via the Ashton, Rochdale and Bridgewater canal ) to complete the ' Cheshire Ring '.

" Inspired by such writers and artists as Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs, J. R. R Tolkien and Jack Kirby, Byron set out to create his own dark fantasy universe, with tales told through epic lyrics and music.

It was directed by Peter Brook, with choreography by Frederick Ashton.

Sir Frederick Ashton ( 1904-1988 ), choreographer with The Royal Ballet, lived at Chandos Lodge in Eye and at Yaxley, where he is buried alongside his sister.

The Long Ashton Research Station was closed in 2002, with some of its staff moved to Rothamsted, whilst Broom's Barn is operated as an experimental farm for Rothamsted.

The Fosse Way follows the B4455 across Warwickshire, through Street Ashton, Stretton-under-Fosse, Brinklow, Bretford, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Princethorpe and the site of a Roman town near Chesterton, until it joins the A429 near the boundary with Gloucestershire.

Ashton Hall, opened in 1965, is SPU ’ s largest residence hall with more than 400 students on 12 floors.

Clark Ashton Smith once included the term in his short story The Seven Geases, in which a foolish mortal wanders too close to a sorcerer's home and is punished with a geas to serve as offering to an Elder God, who subsequently geases him into reaching for another destination and so on, until the man is forced through seven different geases and ultimately meets his end.

Jonathan Douglas " Jon " Lord ( 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012 ) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, as well as Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods, and The Flower Pot Men.

He started his band career in London in 1960 with the jazz ensemble The Bill Ashton Combo.