Finally, with the economy in serious recession and interest rates touching seventeen per cent, Richmond's creditors came knocking.

Richmond's importance has waned since the 1930s, however, as the railways have also come to play a lesser role in the economy.

After Reconstruction, Richmond's location at the falls of the James River helped it develop a diversified economy and become a land transportation hub.

Attention is now drawn to Wellington ( Plummer ), who attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball, where Picton and other generals are present.

The 2009 TNT television drama HawthoRNe, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan, is set at the fictitious Richmond-Trinity Hospital which is based on Richmond's Community Hospital in Church Hill.

Today, the town is locally known for its “ big box ” shopping store district along Fitzgerald Avenue, and Pinole Vista Shopping Center, which is continuous with Richmond's Hilltop Area.

Pickett died in Norfolk and is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

At the battle of Bosworth Field, Lord Stanley ( who is also Richmond's stepfather ) and his followers desert Richard's side, whereupon Richard calls for the execution of George Stanley, Lord Stanley's son.

He describes Richmond's speech as " dignified " and formal, while Richard's speech is explained as " slangy and impetuous ".

Another example of this balanced approach to production design is the choice of tanks for battle scenes between Richmond's and Richard's armies: both use Soviet tanks ( T-55s and T-34s respectively ), mixed with German, American and British World War II era vehicles.

He is buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.

She is the very famous host of the Duchess of Richmond's ball, happening on 15 June 1815, the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras, 3 days before the Battle of Waterloo.

Historian Julian Litten believes that the real mystery in Richmond's death is the disease that killed him.

Due to a large amount of Greek Immigration in Australia there is a Greek Orthodox Church, located on Burnley Street, which is open for mass every Sunday and brings together Richmond's Greek Community.

Richmond's most famous landmark is the Richmond Bridge, built in 1823 to 1825, around the time of the town's first settlement.

Richmond's amalgamation into the city of Ottawa is a cause for concern for many local residents.

The village mascot is a fox, after a local legend relating to a rabid fox who is reported to have been responsible for spreading the disease to the Duke of Richmond's dog, who subsequently bit the Duke, killing him.

The University of Richmond's name leads some to believe that it is a public institution drawing students primarily from within Virginia.

Richmond's financial aid program is due, in no small part, to its endowment which approaches $ 1. 75 billion, placing it within the top 40 nationally of colleges and universities ' endowments.

The second Saturday in June brings out Richmond's annual " It Starts in Park Festival " which is designed to encourage healthly living and family fun for the summer months just as the school children are getting close to their summer vacations.

After he died later that year, the land for Richmond's Joseph Bryan Park was donated by his widow, Isobel (" Belle ") Stewart Bryan, and it is named for him.

North Richmond is next to Chevron Richmond Refinery in Richmond's Point Richmond District.

The park unofficially demarcates the eastern " point " of the Fan District and is considered to be Richmond's oldest park.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

Richmond's elite society has also been portrayed in various popular culture references, such as in 1920s novels by Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell, or the 1990s television sitcom A Different World, which featured the character Whitley Gilbert, an obnoxious and wealthy African American debutante.

Richmond's Shadow wore all black, including a trench coat, a wide-brimmed fedora, and a full face-mask similar to the type worn by movie serial hero The Masked Marvel, instead of the character's signature black cape with red lining and red scarf.

Since all of Richmond's land occupies islands in a river delta, the city has plenty of rich, alluvial soil for agriculture, and was one of the first areas in British Columbia to be farmed by Europeans in the 19th century.

Richmond was eventually willed by Francis II, Duke of Brittany to Henry VII of England, whose grandson Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset was independent Richmond's first duke, to distinguish from an earlier junior status as county.

Richmond has been joined with the Welsh Marches since the time of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and Richmond's relations with Mercia, go back to the time when Edwin, Earl of Mercia, held the old manor of Gilling West ( an enclave within Northumbria ), that was moved by the Bretons to Richmond.

Richmond's inclusion into the royal body politic of England was opposed by locals for over a century, through numerous plots and rebellions, Spanish confederations and Jesuit missions, finally cracking in the Civil War period.

Richmond's ruck combination of Bentley, Dyer and rover Ray Martin was by now considered the best in the business.

It has been followed by a number of derivative works such as Diana Richmond's Antar and Abla, which furthered western exposure to the Antar bin Shaddad legends.

It has been followed by a number of derivative works such as Diana Richmond's Antar and Abla which furthered western exposure to the Antar bin Shaddad legends.

Kyle Richmond's eyes, given by a disguised Mephisto, allow him to see into the future.

The " Monroe Park Advisory Council ", an organization constituted by Richmond City Councilman William Pantele in 2003, in partnership with the Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Commununity Facilities and Richmond's Department of Community Development are leading the renovation initiative.

Commanded by Group Captain Hippolyte " Kanga " De La Rue, Richmond's combat units at the outbreak of World War II included No. 3 Squadron ( flying Hawker Demons ), Nos.

As a teenager, he walked from his home in Lennox St, Richmond to the Punt Road Oval, where he was greeted by Richmond's Fourth coach Bill Boromeo.

In 2007, he attended a Tommy Hafey Club Function – in support of his lifelong friend Tom Hafey and on 22 November 2007, walked into the Punt Road ground ( Richmond's Home Ground ) to launch the centenary publication ' Richmond F. C: A Century of League Football ', which was written by his son Rhett.

For these and other contributions to those less fortunate, the Farrior Foundation was given the Key to the City of Richmond, VA by Richmond's Mayor Dwight C. Jones in June 2009.

It also performs crossover duty for travelers between Washington ( reached by Interstate 95 ) and southeastern Virginia ( reached by Interstate 64 ), and links many of Richmond's suburbs ( such as Short Pump, Mechanicsville, Highland Springs, Varina, and Hopewell ).

Following completion of Richmond's James River Flood Wall in 1995, led by Richmond developer William H. Abeloff, many of the old warehouses of Tobacco Row were modernized and converted into developments of loft apartments, condominiums, offices, and retail space along part of the restored canal system.

Designed by Robert Mills, Brockenbrough ’ s private residence was built in early nineteenth century Richmond's affluent Shockoe Hill neighborhood ( later known as the Court End District ), and was two blocks north of the Virginia State Capitol.

After centuries of periodic flooding by the James River, development was greatly stimulated by the completion of Richmond's James River Flood Wall in 1995.

Having lost to the Devils, the Flyers wanted revenge for Steve Richmond's punch on Kjell Samuelson at the end of the game ; Hextall targeted Chevrier in a fight labelled by Chico Resch as " like a heavyweight against a lightweight.