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Stratford has Anglo-Saxon origins, and grew up as a market town in medieval times.
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William Hurt ( at Circle Rep Off-Broadway, memorably performing " To Be Or Not to Be " while lying on the floor ), Jon Voight at Rutgers, and Christopher Walken ( fiercely ) at Stratford CT have all played the role, as has Diane Venora at the Public Theatre.
The play has been performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival five times beginning in 1975 with William Hutt playing " Lady Bracknell " in both the 1975 and 1976 productions and Brian Bedford in the 2009 production.
In November 2010 Stratford-on-Avon District Council launched a re-branded official tourism website for the Stratford area called Discover Stratford after opening a new tourist information centre on Henley Street in May 2010, which has since moved back to the original location on Bridgefoot.
* English footballer Dion Dublin, who has played for Manchester United, Aston Villa, and Coventry City, as well as the national team, lives with his wife and family in Stratford.
It has also been staged four times from 1953 to 2010 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
was produced as a play in 1970, was performed in English at the Stratford festival, and has been made into a film.
On October 16, 2006, university president David Johnston announced that the university has entered discussions with the City of Stratford and the Stratford Festival of Canada exploring the possibility of establishing a satellite campus in Stratford.
The town has since made attempts to raise its profile, and due to its proximity to the Olympic Park in nearby Stratford, Ilford was announced as the fastest-growing tourist destination in Europe in 2011.
Large scale redevelopment and inner city regeneration has been underway in Leyton for many years, as is also the case in the neighbouring areas of Hackney, Clapton and Stratford.
As part of the growth of London in the late 19th century, Stratford significantly expanded and increased in population, becoming the centre of administration of the Borough of West Ham in 1886 and it has formed part of Greater London since 1965.
Royal Mail has given the postcode E20 to the Olympic Park and Stratford City developments, this was only used by the BBC TV soap EastEnders for the fictional suburb of Walford.
Stratford has been a focus of regeneration for some years, and is the location of a number of major projects:
Stratford International, located to the northwest, is on the HS1 line from St Pancras International to Kent, and is served by Southeastern domestic high speed services ; so far, no decision has been made for international Eurostar services to call.
Stratford has been the location for numerous films, notably Sparrows Can't Sing ( 1963 ) and Bronco Bullfrog ( 1970 ).
The University of East London ( UEL ) has a major campus in Stratford, whose main building, University House, is a historic listed building dating from the 19th Century.
In addition, Birkbeck College, part of the University of London, has launched courses in the area, initially using space provided by UEL, with a view to constructing its own campus in Stratford.
Federally, Stratford is located in California's 20th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 5 and is represented by Democrat Jim Costa.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ( UMDNJ ) School of Osteopathic Medicine has its campus on Laurel Road in Stratford Borough.
Stratford has been assigned the ZIP code 57474 and the FIPS place code 62020.
While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll.
After Crass stopped performing in 1984, he has worked with other groups including Conflict, Schwartzeneggar, Stratford Mercenaries, Current 93 ( under the name Stephen Intelligent ), US punk band Thought Crime, as well as being an occasional solo performer.
Stratford and Anglo-Saxon
In 1857 he became rector of Water Stratford, Buckinghamshire, and in the following year was appointed Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.
He died leaving behind him a mass of annotations on the Anglo-Saxon charters, and is buried in Water Stratford churchyard.
The town name ' Stratford ' is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means ' ford on a Roman road '.
Stratford and origins
Despite its Puritan origins, Stratford was the site of the first Anglican church in Connecticut, founded in 1707 and ministered by the Rev.
Stratford and grew
* Members of indie bands Klaxons and Pull Tiger Tail all grew up and went to schools in Stratford before they moved to New Cross, London.
Blakeman ruled Stratford until his death in 1665, but as the second generation of Stratford grew up, many of the children rejected what they perceived as the exceptional austerity of the town's founders.
* Javier Colon, singer / songwriter, winner of season one of The Voice grew up in Stratford and graduated from Bunnell High School.
Bletchley grew from an obscure hamlet on the road from Fenny Stratford to Buckingham with the arrival of the London and North Western Railway in 1845 and its subsequent junction with the Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Line shortly afterwards.
Kenneth Harry Olsen was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and grew up in the neighboring town of Stratford, Connecticut.
Shirley grew rapidly in the late 19th century and early 20th century, as people moved out of Birmingham, helped by the opening of the railway in 1908 as a Great Western route from Snow Hill station to Stratford upon Avon and on to Cheltenham.
* Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, playwright, and author, grew up on Stratford Avenue, according to page 51 of Backing into Forward: A Memoir.
Stratford grew up in Linden, New Jersey and played both basketball and football at Linden High School.
At Upton, near Stratford, he had an extensive botanical garden where he grew many rare plants obtained from various parts of the world ( now West Ham Park ).
The older towns of Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell grew substantially too, being joined to it by a tramway and branch line ( known as the " Newport Nobby "), respectively.
Marni was born Stratford, Ontario and grew up in Toronto.
Rock was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and grew up in Stratford, Wisconsin, where he graduated from high school in 2000.
Stratford and up
After returning Stratford he drew up a defense of the town's right to toll corn and the office of collecting it, and his list of suggested witnesses included his father and Shakespeare's father.
Four electoral wards make up the urban town of Stratford ; Alveston, Avenue and New Town, Mount Pleasant and Guild and Hathaway.
As a major sheep-producing area, the Cotswolds, up until the latter part of the 19th century, regarded Stratford as one of its main centres for the slaughter, marketing, and distribution of sheep and wool.
Stratford is also home to several institutions set up for the study of Shakespeare, including the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which holds books and documents related to the playwright, and the Shakespeare Institute.
Leavitt soon gave up law for the ministry, training at Yale Theological Seminary and settling in Stratford, Connecticut, before decamping for New York City and a career that included the editorship of The Emancipator.
In 1953, after an attempt to establish a permanent base in Glasgow, Theatre Workshop took up residence at the Theatre Royal in Stratford, east London, where it gained international fame, performing international plays across Europe and in the Soviet Union.
In December 1973 Buzz Goodbody, a promising young director, drew up a plan for what would become The Other Place studio theatre in Stratford, designed by Michael Reardon to seat 140 people, which opened to a first and highly successful season in 1974.
His last book, My View of Shakespeare, published in 1996, summed up his life-time's appreciation of The Bard of Stratford.
During peak times, there are 4 trains per hour between Richmond and Stratford ; and 4 trains per hour operate between Clapham Junction and Stratford on the West London Line service, making up a total of 8 trains per hour between Willesden Junction and Stratford.
During off-peak times, there are 4 trains per hour between Richmond and Stratford, and 4 trains per hour on the West London line between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction, with two of these per hour continuing to Stratford, making up a total of 6 trains per hour between Willesden Junction and Stratford.
After a short number of gigs at the Cart and Horses pub in Maryland Point, Stratford and the Bridgehouse in Canning Town, the band split up and Harris auditioned for a band called Smiler in February 1974.
The former runs at frequencies of up to four minutes between trains, while the latter only runs during morning peak hours ; at other times trains from Stratford terminate at Canary Wharf.
Stratford Army Engine Plant is not on the National Priorities list, but is being cleaned up by the US Army.
Still some of Mason's followers refused to leave, and stayed at Water Stratford awaiting his resurrection for up to 15 years when they were dispersed by the local militia.
* W. S. Stratford ( 1831 – 1853 ) — set up a central bureaucracy to replace the system of home-based computers
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