There are currently plans in the works for the construction of a new residential area in the borough, called Bryn Eyre, as well as a hospital.

Riff Raff was a UK progressive rock band formed by keyboardist Tommy Eyre in 1972. The band was a continuation on the back of drummers ( and Harrow School of Art friends ) Rod Coombes ( Juicy Lucy Strawbs and Stealers Wheel ) and Joe Czarnecki's ( Plainsmen ) aka Joe Peter's project originally called ' Crikey ' started in 1969 and completed in 1970 when Rod had to accept growing tour commitments with Juicy Lucy. These sessions comprise half of the Riff Raff album ' Outside Looking In ' in which Rod wrote half the songs. Rod says that " the concept of the band was based around two drummers and afro-jazz ( Rod and Joe were great fans of Ginger Baker and Miles Davis ) and fusion ( this album was one of the first true fusion albums to be recorded ). I had worked with Roger with singer Paul Williams ( Juicy Lucy ) and Tommy previously and clearly we all enjoyed doing what we do best-playing freely ".

Gallows Point had originally been called " Osmund's Eyre " but was renamed when the town gallows were erected there — along with a " Dead House " for the corpses of criminals dispatched in public executions.

Opponents went on to establish the Jamaica Committee, which called for Eyre to be tried for his excesses in suppressing the " insurrection.

The Battle of Groton Heights ( also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold, and occasionally called the Fort Griswold massacre ) was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 6, 1781, between a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard and the more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold and Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Eyre.

In 1990, following his death, 20 of Charleson's friends, colleagues, and family members, including Ian McKellen, Alan Bates, Hugh Hudson, Richard Eyre, Sean Mathias, Hilton McRae, and David Rintoul, contributed to a book of reminiscences about him, called For Ian Charleson: A Tribute, published in October 1990.

However they were still called " Justices in Eyre " in the Treason Act 1351 ( under which it was high treason to kill them in the execution of their office ).

On 12 October, 13 hours after Jensen's death, at 4: 39am, Constables Tynan and Eyre were operating a divisional van from Prahran police station when called to an abandoned Holden Commodore left in Walsh Street, South Yarra.

After the battle William told him " thou shalt hereafter instead of Truelove be called Eyre because thou hast given me the air I breathe.

Truman Capote, who toured Brooks's studio in the late 1940s, may have been exaggerating when he called it " the all-time ultimate gallery of all the famous dykes from 1880 to 1935 or thereabouts ", but she did paint Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre ; Barney's lover Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux ; her own lover Renata Borgatti ; Una, Lady Troubridge, the partner of Radclyffe Hall ; and the artist Gluck ( Hannah Gluckstein ).

* Guys and Dolls, the National's first musical, directed by Richard Eyre, starring Bob Hoskins, Julia McKenzie, Ian Charleson, and Julie Covington ( 1982 )

In 2004 Bourne Co-Directed ( with Richard Eyre ) and Choreographed ( with Stephen Mear ) the West End and Broadway hit musical Mary Poppins, for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer.

She appeared in the original company of the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music as Marta, and in 2000, created the role of Adele in the musical version of Jane Eyre.

Ben Watton made his West End debut aged 9, having been chosen at the age of 8 from nationwide open auditions to play ' Michael Banks ' in the original cast of the Disney / Cameron Mackintosh musical " Mary Poppins ", appearing at both the Bristol Hippodrome and the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End, under the direction of Richard Eyre and Matthew Bourne.

" In 2005, a production by Richard Eyre, starring Eve Best, at the Almeida Theatre in London has been well-received, and later transferred for an 11½ week run at the Duke of York's on St Martin's Lane.

The film's concept was based on a stage production directed by Richard Eyre for the Royal National Theatre, which also starred McKellen.

The production won five Olivier Awards, including for McKenzie and Eyre and for Best Musical.

Richard Eyre won the Critics ' Circle Theatre Award for Best Director, and the production won Best Musical.

A 1974 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance, directed by Ronald Eyre, with Donald Sinden as Sir Harcourt Courtly, ( for which he received the 1975 Drama Desk Special Award ) Roger Rees as Charles, Judi Dench as Grace and Dinsdale Landen as Dazzle, transferred to the Albery Theatre in London for a year, prior to its tour to New York.

* Reviews of Music Theatre Wales's production of Jane Eyre

Eyre directed a new production of Bizet's opera Carmen for the Metropolitan Opera's 2009-2010 season, starring Latvian mezzo soprano Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna.

This production was directed by Richard Eyre.

Director Richard Eyre, with some initial misgivings based on Charleson's health, brought him in to replace Daniel Day-Lewis, who had abandoned the production.

Richard Eyre produced the play for the National Theatre ; his first production as head of the theatre, it was performed on the Olivier Stage in mid-Victorian costume.

Of this production, Eyre himself writes, " What felt as though it might have been a true popular success … shows itself to be dismal and underachieved.

He was production designer of the drama Jane Eyre ( 1944 ), and of the war drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ).

The company visited Japan in 2010, presenting a new production of Manon and the Eyre production of La traviata.

She also played, in that same year's BBC miniseries production of Jane Eyre ( 1973 ), the character of Helen Burns, the fourteen-year-old boarding-school girl who is cruelly birched by Miss Scatcherd and who befriends the ten-year-old Jane when Jane is a newcomer to Lowood Institute.

In the meantime Griffiths returned to the theatre with the Nottingham Playhouse production of Comedians directed by Richard Eyre first performed on 20 February 1975, which later transferred to Broadway.

This 1910 # 1 best seller featured two singers in a " Jane Eyre " plot, and the heroine's nickname was Jeanette.

This 1910 # 1 best seller featured two singers in a " Jane Eyre " plot, and the heroine's nickname was, in fact, Jeanette.

Franco Zeffirelli chose Haddon Hall as the location for his 1996 film of Jane Eyre, and the Hall featured in the 1998 film Elizabeth.

Marsh was featured as Bertha Mason Rochester in the George C. Scott-Susannah York version of Jane Eyre, directed by Delbert Mann.

She had taken a dislike to her son's companion, Mary Eyre Wallis ( the daughter of the noted engineer Barnes Wallis ), and, when Harry announced their engagement in October 1947, his mother set out to sabotage the union.

Award-winning director Sir Richard Eyre is set to direct with Jon Robin Baitz, in place to pen the stage play.

The Lake Eyre Basin Intergovernmental Agreement was set up, between 2000 and 2004, to ensure the sustainability of the Lake Eyre Basin river systems, particularly to avoid or eliminate cross-border impacts.

Pickwick was 12 in 1985, when The Eyre Affair is set, and has some unusual characteristics, including missing wings.

It was renovated in 2003 to a design by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

Eyre ’ s original drawing of the front design, created in 1902, is shown to the right.

Eyre ’ s design has endured for over a century with few changes aside from the ongoing addition of paneling for caricatures in the Grille Room and Theater.

Though Eyre ’ s career included several projects like the Clubhouse, he is best known for his design of the University of Pennsylvania ’ s Museum.

The design may have been inspired by the death in 1792 of Hugh Munro, son of General Sir Hector Munro, who had commanded a division during Sir Eyre Coote's victory at the Battle of Porto Novo ( Parangipettai ) in 1781 when Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan's father, was defeated with a loss of 10, 000 men during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

In 1890 Freer contracted with Wilson Eyre to design a home in Detroit.

Freer bought the room in 1904 and had Eyre design another room in the carriage house in which to install it.

Building and exhibition design was carried out by Wilkinson Eyre and Land Design Studio respectively, and Davis Langdon was project manager for the construction.

The creative, development, funding and building process was led by Stephen Feber, who selected the design team, led by Wilkinson Eyre, architects and Event Communications, exhibition designers.