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Erith was one of these villages, and has a Saxon name, thought to have been derived from a word meaning ` muddy harbour ' or ` gravelly landing place '.
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The world amateur premiere was performed at the Erith Playhouse in Erith, Kent, in June 1977, and was attended by members of the London production team.
The early settlement was based around this church, meaning that the centre of Erith was once west of its current location.
In 1315, a Royal Charter was granted for a market to be held in Erith every Thursday.
Erith owes its existence to the Thames and was, until the 1850s, essentially a small riverside port, given prominence by King Henry VIII's decision to open a naval dockyard in the town.
At that time, and until the 19th Century, Erith was a popular anchorage.
In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the Erith Municipal Borough was abolished and its area transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Bexley.
Erith Iron Works was established in 1864 in Anchor Bay by William Anderson.
From 1881 Erith was home to a large cable works founded by William Callender.
During the First World War Erith was an extremely important area for the manufacture of guns and ammunition, largely due to the presence of the large Vickers works in the Fraser Road area.
A new swimming pool was recently built adjoining the sports centre and the David Ives Stadium, which is home to Bexley Athletic Club and Erith Town F. C.
The Erith Symphony Orchestra ceased to exist in 1972 and it was almost 30 years before another orchestra was heard in the town, when the Dartford-based, Orchestra of the Thames Gateway gave a concert there in 2004 and in subsequent years.
It was then cut in two by the building of the A2016 a 4 lane dual carriageway by-pass of the Woolwich to Erith section of the A206 though on leaving Woolwich only got as far as the industrial part of lower Belvedere ( the extension to Erith was opened in 1999 ).
Erith was a port on the River Thames until the 17th century ; the opening of the sewage works at nearby Crossness in the late 19th century turned it into an industrial town.
The London Borough of Bexley was formed in 1965, under the London Government Act 1963 from the Municipal Boroughs of Bexley and Erith ; Crayford Urban District: and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District.
After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.
Thamesmead, the " new town " built on what was the Erith Marshes, extends into the Borough: both Thamesmead North and South are located here.
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Easton's firm, inherited by his son James ( 1796 – 1871 ), grew during the nineteenth century to become one of the more important engineering manufacturers in the United Kingdom, with a large works at Erith, Kent.
Chislehurst is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Crystal Palace, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.
The park is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Chislehurst, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.
In 1797 Edward Hasted described Erith as ' consisting of one small street of houses, which leads to the water side ', and mentions two annual fairs, on Ascension Day and Michaelmas Day.
In 1996, the two sites of Erith School, the East and West buildings, merged onto one site on Avenue Road.
Erith is the starting point for the LOOP ( London Outer Orbital Path ) and one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk.
The Borough owns and maintains over one hundred parks and open spaces, large and small ; and there is still a part of the Erith Marshes bordering the River Thames.
There was apparently a mutual attraction between Loial and Erith ; before Rand's party left the stedding Erith gave Loial a flower, which he pressed inside one of his books.
The cable was manufactured in two parts: one section at BICC in Erith and the other at Pirelli Cables in Southampton.
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Recently, these shopping centres have been refaced and extended to provide new social housing and better quality shops to complement the W. M. Morrison's supermarket to the east of town in an attempt to make Erith more attractive and welcoming.
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Bexleyheath has drawn a lot of custom to match the expansion in retail space from residents of towns in the borough, particularly from Erith and Thamesmead which have expanded in size with development along the River Thames.
Since the late 1990s Erith has been undergoing significant changes with the Erith Western Thames Gateway project being the culmination of a number of years of regeneration.
For many decades Erith has been the site of the Erith Oil Works, originally British Oil & Cake Mills ( BOCM ) and now owned by ADM, which processes various seeds into vegetable oils
The annual Erith Riverside Festival has been held for a number of years in Riverside Gardens alongside the Thames.
* Christ Church-in Erith, built in the 19th Century, has a distinctive tower built by James Piers St Aubyn *( interior )
The London Borough of Bexley has three fire stations controlled by the London Fire Brigade within its boundary ; those at Erith, Sidcup and Bexley.
Murray Pass, named for the explorer John Murray, between Deal and Erith Islands has long been used by ships to shelter from gales in Bass Strait, but it is a dangerous, partly open, roadstead, and many ships have been wrecked after sudden changes in wind direction and speed.
Gavin Stamp remarked that after the death of Raymond Erith, Terry was left " to hold aloft the torch of classicism -- something he was, I fear, quite unfitted to sustain " and he has also been called " exquisite but impractical.
It also has a training centre in Erith, south-east London.
In the early mornings a night bus service operates called the N89 which runs between Trafalgar Square and Erith ; The N89 has a frequency of every 30 minutes.
The 428 bus contracted by TfL and operated by Arriva runs between Bluewater Shopping Centre and Erith Town Centre ; The 428 has a frequency of 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime and at evening and Sundays the 428 has a frequency of 30 minutes.
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Although it does not have the largest station ground, Erith was the busiest station in 2006 / 2007, responding to 1, 314 incidents-two pumping appliances are based there.
Erith & Belvedere have been ground sharing since the 1999 season.
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On its way from Erith to Old Bexley, the " London LOOP " walk follows the River Cray across the Crayford Marshes and through the town centre.
Their work at the former site of Erith School in Belmont Road revealed the presence of prehistoric settlement, and of a substantial settlement or farmstead dating from the first century.
Therefore Erith ( along with the majority of Bexley Borough ) does not come under the SE postcode area and continues to be serviced from Dartford, Kent, with DA postal codes.
It is expected that the Erith Western Gateway, that will include a significant number of new riverside flats, will continue to rejuvenate the area which suffered from the blight of post World War Two rebuilding.
In the Second World War, Erith found itself in the thick of the conflict, being directly on the German bombing routes from Europe to London, and also because of the nearby armament factories.
Erith Rowing Club is a successful and friendly club located in former police premises on the waterfront, accessed from Erith High Street.
* Linda Smith, comedian and writer, came from Erith.
Erith railway station is only a short walk from the town centre.
The ridge of higher ground in South London crosses the Borough from its high point of Shooters Hill, on the boundary with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, to end above the River Thames at Belvedere, where the land drops down to the old port of Erith.
The most northerly is the North Kent Line: stations from west to east within the Borough are at Belvedere, Erith and Slade Green.
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Control of ship traffic on the Thames within the Port is orchestrated from two Port Control centres-one at the Thames Barrier ( the Thames Barrier Navigation Centre ) in Woolwich, for reaches upstream of Erith, and the other at Gravesend ( the main Port Control ) for reaches downstream of Erith.
Three walking routes pass Hall Place, the local council-sponsored Shuttle River Way and Cray River Way and the Mayor of London's " London LOOP " walk, which, shortly after its start at Erith, follows the Cray River Way from Crayford to Foots Cray.
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John Eric Austin, formerly known as John Austin-Walker, ( born 21 August 1944 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Woolwich from 1992 to 1997 and for Erith and Thamesmead from 1997 to 2010.
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