Rennie's first appearance on screen was in the indie Canadian film Purple Toast, filmed in 1990 and released in 1993.

Rennie's Mill got its name from a Canadian businessman named Alfred Herbert Rennie, who established the Hong Kong Milling Company at Junk Bay ( his partners were Paul Chater and Hormusjee Naorojee Mody ).

It was built west ( upstream ) of the original site by Jolliffe and Banks of Merstham, Surrey, under the supervision of Rennie's son.

Rennie's bridge was long and wide, constructed from Haytor granite.

" On 18 April 1968, Rennie's bridge was sold to an American.

Rennie's last project was London Bridge, still under construction when he died in 1821 but completed by his son, also John Rennie.

One of Rennie's recommendations had been to replace the windmills which drove the drainage pumps with a steam pumping station at Pode Hole, but this was not implemented.

The first film under his new contract was the British-filmed Medieval period adventure The Black Rose, starring Tyrone Power, who became one of Rennie's closest friends.

The film, released on 14 August 1952, was directed by All Quiet on the Western Front's Lewis Milestone, and Rennie's performance was respectfully, but not enthusiastically, received by the critics.

Michael Rennie's next film was the last under his five-year contract with 20th Century-Fox.

The channel through it was made deeper in 1795, but John Rennie's plans to demolish it in 1803 were not adopted.

Rennie's design was rejected, and instead construction began on a nine arch iron bridge designed by Samuel Bentham.

From 1884 serious problems were found in Rennie's bridge piers, after scour from the increased river flow after Old London Bridge was demolished damaged their foundations.

The first known mail-filtering program to use a Bayes classifier was Jason Rennie's ifile program, released in 1996.

The most important of John Rennie's undertakings, from 1824, was the construction of London Bridge, the designs for which had been prepared by his father.

George Rennie's genius was chiefly mechanical, and he superintended the manufacturing business of the firm in Holland Street, where a great variety of machinery was turned out, including the first biscuit-making machinery, corn and chocolate mills for Deptford victualling yard, and the machinery at the Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth.

On 15 January 1973, Rennie's son was arrested for an alleged involvement in the importation of large quantities of heroin from Hong Kong.

The cost of a barge canal had been estimated at £ 70, 000, but Rennie's estimate for a ship canal was £ 1. 33M.

Rennie's first major series for the 2000 AD family was Missionary Man, which began in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 29 ( 5 / 93 ) and ran between " the Meg " and 2000 AD for 74 episodes before finishing in 2002.

Hobb's End was used as a location in Gordon Rennie's story Caballistics, Inc. in British comic 2000AD.

Kelso has two bridges that span the River Tweed, " Rennie's Bridge " was completed in 1803 to replace an earlier one washed away in the floods of 1797, it was built by John Rennie of Haddington, who later went on to build Waterloo Bridge in London, his bridge in Kelso is a smaller and earlier version of Waterloo Bridge.

Rennie's estimated cost in the second bill was £ 291, 000, and the company was empowered to raise the money by issuing shares, with powers to raise a further £ 100, 000 if required.

Rennie's Old London Bridge during reconstruction at Lake Havasu in March 1971

Image: London-Bridge-March-1971. jpg | Rennie's Old London Bridge during reconstruction at Lake Havasu in March 1971

Other bridge commissions in this period include the Tamar Bridge located next to Brunel's 1859 Royal Albert Bridge, the Kuala Lepar bridge across the Pahang River in Malaysia and the new London Bridge ( including the removal of Rennie's 1831 bridge and its reconstruction in Arizona ).

He died at Houston Mill and is buried in East Linton's Prestonkirk Parish Church kirkyard, close to Rennie's father, George Rennie, who farmed the nearby Phantassie estate by the River Tyne.

Rennie's of Dunfermline were the first challengers to Fife in and around that town, but by far the largest and most sustained competition came from local coach firm Moffat & Williamson.

Thus, by the late-1950s, in correlation with the Cold War context in Asia at the time, Rennie's Mill gradually became a Little Taiwan and a Bastion Against Communism, with the flag of the Republic of China flying, its own school system and practically off-limits to the Royal Hong Kong Police Force until 1962 when the Hong Kong Government decided to turn it into a resettlement estate due to its apprehension of the growing Kuomintang presence in the enclave.

Before the redevelopment and reclamation in the surrounding area, Rennie's Mill could be reached by the winding, hilly and narrow Po Lam Road South, which ran past numerous busy quarries.

At that time, Rennie's Mill's only means of public transport were the routes 90 and 290 of Kowloon Motor Bus, which were operated by minibuses, and by water transport.

Hunter's Bridge, a kilometre downstream, is a modern construction built to take much of the heavy traffic that has damaged Rennie's bridge by diverting vehicles around the town.

Rennie's scheme involved the provision of a catchwater drain to collect water draining from the higher ground to the west before it entered the fenlands, but an Act of Parliament to authorise its construction was defeated, and so in 1846 a report by Mr W Cubit which proposed improvements to the existing infrastructure was accepted by the Commissioners.

It was finished by 1841, the final work being finished by Rennie's son, Sir John Rennie.

"... Wounded " is at the other end of Rennie's range as he takes on the first of many troubled anti hero roles.

The grave of Richard Coates stands in Springfield churchyard, while Rennie's original survey book for the canal has been preserved.

In 1996 the Hong Kong government finally evicted the last of Rennie's Mill's residents, ostensibly to make room for new town developments, as part of the Tseung Kwan O New Town, but widely believed to be a move to please the Communist Chinese government before Hong Kong reverted to Communist Chinese rule in 1997.

" The filmmakers thought that it would not make sense for an alien being to act as human as Rennie's Klaatu did, and so they " decided that in the beginning he should just be very different.

Horsham would have been an important midway point in two of the original proposals for a London to Brighton railway via the Adur valley but in the event Sir John Rennie's proposed direct line through Three Bridges and Haywards Heath was given Parliamentary approval.

Second leads and then leads in seven other British films produced between 1946 and 1949 followed, including what may be considered Michael Rennie's only role as one of two central characters in a fully-fledged love story.

Kita also appeared in the films Little Heroes ( 2002 ) and Rennie's Landing ( 2001 ).

Tiu Keng Leng ( also Rennie's Mill ; ) is an area of Hong Kong in the Sai Kung District adjacent to Tseung Kwan O ( Junk Bay ).