Secret British government documents, declassified in 2005, indicate that Stonehouse spent months rehearsing his new identity, that of Joseph Markham — the deceased husband of a constituent.

In Castres Prison, the Gestapo placed Stonehouse in solitary confinement while subjecting him to frequent and brutal interrogations.

Eight species of birds reside on the polar tundra year round while only 150 breed in the Arctic ( Stonehouse, 96 ).

Some areas of Antarctica are controlled by the French, while other areas are controlled by South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK ( Stonehouse, 194 ).

This city is well known as a tourist destination due to its many unique stores including Stonehouse Coffee, a coffee shop and cafe that roasts beans in the store, an ice cream parlor and candy shop, The Chocolate Ox, and Zaiser's, a renowned shoe store with many other slightly random items.

The bid and the project had to be split into smaller sections, but £ 11. 9 million was awarded in 2006 for phase 1a, which with match funding will restore navigation from ' The Ocean ' at Stonehouse to Wallbridge on the Stroudwater Navigation, and from Wallbridge to Brimscombe Port on the Thames and Severn Canal.

The Avon flows between the village of Glassford, and Stonehouse to the south, before merging with the smaller Cander Water just south of Larkhall.

Stonehouse is the site of Plymouth's international ferry port at Millbay Docks with at least daily sailings to Roscoff in Brittany and frequent ferries to Santander in northern Spain.

The path follows roads past Stonehouse Barracks and Millbay Docks to Plymouth Hoe with its views across Plymouth Sound.

His collections of drawings of fellow SOE prisoners, life in prison and prison guards along with other personal artefacts was handed over by the Stonehouse Family to the Imperial War Museum London in May 2007.

In the summer of 1944, he was at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace with another SOE agent Brian Stonehouse.

She began resistance work with SOE radio operator Brian Stonehouse until his arrest near the end of October that year.

Stonehouse wrote three novels, and made several TV appearances, mostly in connection with discussing his disappearance.

Devonport was originally one of the " Three Towns " ( along with Plymouth and East Stonehouse ); these merged in 1914 to form what would become in 1928 the City of Plymouth.

Brigade headquarters staff are located at Stonehouse Barracks, Plymouth, Devon with the majority of the subordinate formations in South West England.

It was connected directly to the UK national rail network between 1867 and 1947 with a station that was the terminus of the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway.

# a branch from Stonehouse railway station to Strathaven Central, Douglas, Ryeland and Drumclog railway stations ; with an end-on-junction to Loudounhill railway station, on the G & SWR's Darvel Branch.

Larkhall also has good bus links with frequent services to Hamilton, Lanark, Motherwell, Stonehouse, Strathaven and Wishaw.

It has the layout of a conventional out of town retail park, with large stores such as Barker and Stonehouse, Toys R Us, NEXT Home and Staples.

45 Cdo RM deployed to Norway for the first of many winters in 1971, which coincided with a move of the unit from Stonehouse, Plymouth to the old Naval Air Station, RNAS Arbroath ( now RM Condor ) in Arbroath, Scotland, where the unit still remains.

Before the war, the section from Cirencester to Gloucester was renumbered the A417, and the A419 was extended from Cirencester to Stroud and then on part of the route of the former A434 through Stonehouse to a junction with the A38 at Hardwicke, just south of Gloucester.

Due to the availability of raw materials in Stonehouse, brickmaking began there in 1856 with evidence of possible prior brickmaking as early as 1839 or 1840 and of as many as thirteen brickmaking sites altogether.

Bricks and other materials made by the company were not only used locally ( notably in the Stonehouse police station and post office ) and in other areas of Britain, but were also used as far away as Cape Town, Gibraltar, and Buenos Aires, with those used in Gibraltar transported there on the RMS Lusitania during her sea trials.

The football club, Stonehouse Town F. C., has four teams, with the top one currently playing in the Northern Senior League.

Good road communication is provided, with the M5 situated with 2 miles of Stonehouse town centre, with the major industrial area located to the west of the town off the A419

The town is served by Stonehouse railway station on the " Golden Valley Line ", with a good and frequent service to London.

Stonehouse married his mistress Sheila Buckley in Hampshire on 31 January 1981 and shortly afterwards their son was born.

The Stonehouse Creek was later filled in during the 1960s to become Victoria Park, The Stonehouse Sharks Junior Rugby Team's grounds and The playing fields of Devonport High School for Boys.

In 1974 he was succeeded by the controversial John Stonehouse ( also Labour ), the former Postmaster General who became infamous for faking his own death and was later jailed for fraud.

What was originally a self-standing village ( which has now been subsumed within the city ) lies to the north of the toll bridge, originally built by Sir Piers Edgcumbe in 1525, that crossed what used to be the Deadlake or Stonehouse Creek, to the west of Pennycomequick, the south of Stoke village and to the east of Stoke Church.

The remainder of the creek to the west of Millbridge, up to Stonehouse Bridge and Pool, was filled in and by 1972 the whole area had been developed as rugby pitches.

As the borough was larger than Portsmouth, and had recently absorbed Devonport and East Stonehouse, the King agreed to the request.

At the end of 2003, a provisional grant of £ 11. 3 million was awarded by the HLF, to enable the restoration of the Stroudwater Navigation between Stonehouse and Wallbridge, and the Thames and Severn Canal between Wallbridge and Brimscombe Port.

Its official name at the time of inception was The Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse ( Ford Park ) Cemetery, although it is now seldom referred to by that title.

West Stonehouse was a village that is within the current Mount Edgcumbe Country Park in Cornwall.

Settlement in the area goes back to Roman times and a house made of stone was believed to have stood near to Stonehouse Creek.

Between 1993 and 1998 the part of Stonehouse to the west of Durnford Street ( including the Royal William Victualling Yard ) was designated as one of the three areas of the city under control of Plymouth Development Corporation.

Coincidentally, John Stonehouse MP faked his own death in this manner shortly before the book was published, although neither was inspired by the other: the novel was written before Stonehouse's faked suicide in November 1974 but not published until 1975.

OWL was founded in 1984 by five former employees of ICL ( Ian Ritchie, Stuart Harper, Gordon Dougan, Richard Stonehouse and Dave MacLaren ) who had previously worked at ICL's Scottish Development Centre at Dalkeith Palace until its closure the previous year.

Brian Julian Warry Stonehouse MBE ( 8 August 1918 – 2 December 1998 ) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.

From Natzweiler-Struthof, Stonehouse was sent to the Dachau concentration camp from where he was liberated by U. S. troops on 29 April 1945.

During his final years Stonehouse was an active Theosophist living at the London branch of the United Lodge of Theosophists.

John Thomson Stonehouse ( 28 July 192514 April 1988 ) was a British Labour Party politician and junior minister under Harold Wilson.

Stonehouse was first elected as Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wednesbury in a 1957 by-election, having contested Twickenham in 1950 and Burton in 1951.

In 1969 Stonehouse was subjected to the assertion that he was a Czech secret service agent.

In December 2010 it was revealed that then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had agreed in 1980 to cover up revelations that Stonehouse had been a Czech spy since the 1960s as there was insufficient evidence to bring him to trial.