The Arms retain many of the features of the arms of the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.

Battersea Park still retains Cubitt and Pennethorne's original layout and features, including a riverfront promenade, a formal avenue through the centre of the park and multiple animal enclosures.

Lavender Hill also features in the last episode of the last series, featuring the Town Hall, now the Battersea Arts Centre.

It also appears in two books by Jacqueline Wilson, Hetty Feather and Sapphire Battersea.

John Symonds ( 12 March 1914, Battersea, London – 21 October 2006 ) was an English novelist, biographer, playwright and writer of children's books.

Michael Flanders, half of the 60's comedy Flanders and Swann often made public fun at Donald Swann for living in Battersea.

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Before Kerrigan left him, Moon was already dating Georgiana Steele, a British-born former fashion model who worked at Ramport, the band's quadrophonic recording studio in Battersea.

An inaugural game using the new FA rules was initially scheduled for Battersea Park on 2 January 1864, but enthusiastic members of the FA couldn't wait for the new year and an experimental game was played at Mortlake on 19 December 1863 between Morley's Barnes team and their neighbours Richmond ( who were not members of the FA ), ending in a goalless draw.

At the end of the 18th century, above of land in the parish of Battersea were occupied by some 20 market gardeners, who rented from five to near each.

Cameron was born in Battersea, London, of Scottish parentage ; his father, William Ernest Cameron, was a barrister who wrote novels under the pseudonym Mark Allerton.

The first Battersea Bridge was a toll bridge commissioned by John, Earl Spencer, who had recently acquired the rights to operate the ferry.

One of the British members of staff was Ron Morris, from Battersea, who had worked for the embassy in various positions since 1947.

John Martin Linton ( born 11 August 1944 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Battersea from 1997 to 2010.

Pearson grew up in Battersea, London, the son of a panel beater, who left home when he was five, and a legal secretary, and was educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Suffolk, a boarding school, where he first learnt to act, and at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Curtin is the only child of a builder and his wife, who had emigrated from near Tralee in county Kerry to south London where Brian was born and raised, attending St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Putney Bridge Road, Wandsworth, as well as the Salesian College, in Surrey Lane, Battersea.

Her husband Marcus Ringrose, who worked in the City as a loss-adjuster, died suddenly from a heart attack, aged 60, at their home in Battersea just a few hours after delivering a eulogy at his wife's funeral on 7 August 2012.

Alf Dubs, who had previously been MP for Battersea South, won the constituency for the Labour Party in 1983 and the Conservative candidate John Bowis won in 1987 and 1992.

Rich finds such as the Battersea Shield, found in the Thames near Chelsea, suggest the area was important ; there may have been important settlements at Egham and Brentford, and there was a hillfort at Uppall, but no city in the area of the Roman London, the present day City of London.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.

The Battersea Park game was postponed for a week, and the first exhibition game using FA rules was played there on Saturday 9 January 1864.

A commemorative stained glass window was added to St. Mary's Church, Battersea between 1976 and 1982.

The village was largely within the parish of Streatham, although land to the north was part of Battersea.

As with many former Thames island settlements, Battersea was reclaimed by draining marshland and building culverts for streams.

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

Bridges erected across the Thames encouraged growth ; Putney Bridge, a mile ( 1. 6 km ) to the west, was built in 1729, and Battersea Bridge in the centre of the north boundary in 1771.

From the late 18th century to comparatively recent times, Battersea, and certainly north Battersea, was established as an industrial area, with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it.

Battersea was radically altered by the coming of railways.

The London and Southampton Railway Company was the first to drive a railway line from east to west through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at Nine Elms at the north west tip of the area.

The effect was precipitate: a population of 6, 000 people in 1840 was increased to 168, 000 by 1910 ; and save for the green spaces of Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings ( much of which remain ), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east – west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south.

Population growth in London during the 19th century demanded new arrangements, and the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea was created in 1899, with the boundaries described above.

In the period from 1880 onwards, Battersea was known as a centre of radical politics in the United Kingdom.

John Burns founded a branch of the Social Democratic Federation, Britain's first organised socialist political party, in the borough and after the turmoil of dock strikes affecting the populace of north Battersea, was elected to represent the borough in the newly formed London County Council.