The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

After considering several locations in the Midwest, the denomination chose the College Hill neighborhood of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

In 1857, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the permanent capital of the Province of Canada, initiating construction of Canada's first parliament buildings, on Parliament Hill.

L ' Enfant chose Jenkins Hill as the site for the Capitol building, with a grand boulevard connecting it with the President's House, and a public space stretching westward to the Potomac River.

But Shoemaker chose a colt he had never ridden named Hill Rise as his Derby mount.

Although Seton Hill was one of the schools that initially broke away from the WVIAC, it chose not to join the MEC.

There was already a post office in Arkansas under the name Pleasant Hill, so the government chose Fifty-Six.

Declining calls from churches in Beverly and Charlestown, he chose instead to settle from 1783 until 1795 as minister in " Greenfield Hill ," a congregational church in Fairfield, Connecticut.

The Treasury chose a rough design endorsed by Rowland Hill, featuring an easily recognisable profile of 15-year-old former Princess Victoria.

* Phil Ochs wrote and recorded a different, original song called " Joe Hill ", using a traditional melody found in the song " John Hardy ", which tells a much more detailed story of Joe Hill's life and death, and includes the lines that have since been associated with Ochs ' own life and death, " It's the life of a rebel that he chose to live ; It's the death of a rebel that he died ".

They ( the Scots ) marched towards the town with great display, in order of battle, and recklessly, stupidly and inadvisedly chose a battle ground at Halidon Hill, where there was a marshy hollow between the two armies, and where a great downward slope, with some precipices, and then again a rise lay in front of the Scots, before they could reach the field where the English were posted.

Rowland Hill chose the full deep blue colour for the two pence stamp.

Hill chose a ledge below his Stonehenge replica for his burial site, and designed his own monument ; but that monument did not last, and has since been replaced.

Hill starred as Charlie for six seasons before he chose to leave the show at the beginning of the seventh season ( September 2005 ) to star in the pilot for the new television show Psych for the USA Network, which premiered July 7, 2006.

The client, Aline Barnsdall, subsequently chose Schindler as her architect to design a number of other small projects for her on Olive Hill and a spectacular beach-side ' translucent house ' in 1927, which remains one of the great uncompleted projects of the twentieth century.

Offers were being made for Hill to fight in Las Vegas and other cities, but Virgil chose the place of his ' roots ' and ' hometown fans ' to be the place of the majority of his defenses.

Her stage name Bronhill, which she used from 1952, was an abbreviation of Broken Hill, which was her way of thanking her home town for its support in raising money to send her overseas for professional training as a singer — in the same way that Helen Porter Mitchell chose the stage name of Nellie Melba ( after Melbourne ), and that Florence Mary Wilson chose the stage name of Florence Austral and Elsie Mary Fischer chose the stage name Elsa Stralia ( after Australia ).

For three hours, he chose to limit his demonstration to an artillery barrage from Benner's Hill, about a mile ( 1, 600 m ) to the northeast.

Raja Tridiv Roy ( 14 May 1933-17 Sept 2012 ) was a former Raja of the Chakma tribe in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh who chose to remain a Pakistani when Bangladesh was created in 1971.

When Lee reorganized his army to compensate for Jackson's mortal wounding at Chancellorsville, Longstreet recommended his subordinate for one of the two new corps commands, but both men were disappointed when Lee chose Richard S. Ewell and A. P. Hill instead.

On the audio commentary on the film's DVD release, Hill also mentioned that he was initially against the outfits that the wardrobe department chose for Foxy Brown.

Being unable to storm the town or surround the entire circle of fortifications, Greene chose to encamp his army about a mile and a half away on a small elevation called Hobkirk's Hill, blocking Great Waxhaw Road.

The town, he recounts, was also known for an unusual spring rising on Beacon Hill ( a promontory to the north-east of the town ), which " petrified " clay, allowing it to be used to pave Harwich's streets and build its walls.

Hill and his men worked in spite of all obstacles — including a presidential veto of a bill that would have allowed Hill legally to build through American Indian territory ( the law preventing Hill from laying track across Indian territories was later repealed under President Grover Cleveland, who like Hill was a Bourbon Democrat ).

" What we want ," Hill is quoted as saying, " is the best possible line, shortest distance, lowest grades, and least curvature we can build.

However, Hill, without the benefit of a central company, managed to acquire the Colorado and Southern Railway lines into Texas, and to build the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.

The decision to build it was reached in 1878, shortly after the king's death that year ; the site on the Capitoline Hill was chosen in 1882 ; and the design of 28 year-old Giuseppe Sacconi was selected in 1884.

Palmer has had a diverse golf-related business career, including owning the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, which is the venue for the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational ( renamed from the Bay Hill Invitational in 2007 ), helping to found The Golf Channel, and negotiating the deal to build the first golf course in the People's Republic of China.

One of its first tasks was to build fortifications near Boston at Bunker Hill.

In the next year the Metropolitan District Railway ( commonly known as the District railway ) was formed to build and operate a railway from South Kensington to Tower Hill.

When James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railway across northern Montana, Pepin convinced him to build his locomotive shops at Havre, on property owned by Pepin.

During World War I, Porter Brothers contracted to build the third rail for the D & HRR " bridge line " through Maryland and Worcester to allow larger eastbound freight trains without extra locomotives to clear Richmondville Hill by an alternate route, much of which was later obliterated by I-88 construction.

Hill used his Maryhill property to build the first paved roads in the Pacific Northwest, the Maryhill Museum of Art ( originally intended as a grand residence for the Hills ), Maryhill Stonehenge, a monument to the World War I dead of Klickitat County in the form of a Stonehenge replica, and a planned community.

Albert Russell was the first to build a home on the land that became Spring Hill.

However, after a battle among plants in Spring Hill, Orion Township, Michigan and Janesville, Wisconsin, GM announced on June 26, 2009 that they had chosen to build a new small car in Orion Township.

Following the pattern of tramways in New York ( the Murray Hill Tunnel ) and Boston ( the MBTA Green Line ), it was decided to build this as an underground connection.

During 1997, the neighborhood group convinced the city to build a small park called the Tipperary Hill Memorial Park and erect a statue which is known as the Tipperary Hill Heritage Memorial on the same corner.

At the build up to the peak periods, some trains starting from Hainault depot operate to central London via Grange Hill, Chigwell, Roding Valley and Woodford, although this service is provided merely for operating convenience rather than passenger demand.

The central Kunming Lake covering 2. 2 square kilometers was entirely man made and the excavated soil was used to build Longevity Hill.

Neither Line 2 nor Line 3 ( Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley and Merry Hill ) were built, and powers to build them lapsed in 1997.

In 1987-88, the Macsyma group tried to build a PC Macsyma with Gold Hill Lisp.