Dramatic change came to Roehampton when the London County Council built the Roehampton Estate in the 1920s and 1930s ( renamed the Dover House Estate ) and the Alton Estate in the 1950s

Some of the many high-rise blocks which are part of the large Alton Estate.

The notable Alton Estate, one of the largest council estates ( public housing ) in the UK, occupies an extensive swathe of land west of Roehampton village and runs between the Roehampton Lane through-road and Richmond Park Golf Courses, as can be seen on the map above.

The installation and construction of a pedestrian entrance to Richmond Park from the Alton Estate was secured by Justine Greening ( MP for the Putney constituency, which includes Roehampton ) was secured in 2007 although it has not yet materialised.

* Alton Estate, Roehampton, Greater London, England

Renowned Housing estates in the capital include the Andover Estate in Holloway, North London, the aforementioned Broadwater Farm estate situated in Tottenham, the Heygate Estate in Walworth, South East London and the Alton Estate in Roehampton, South West London.

A significant part of the land on which Oxton is situated was part of the Estate of the Earl of Shrewsbury-this has been commemorated over the years in many of the road names, which bear the family names and titles of the various Earls ; Alton Road, Beresford Road, Chetwynd Road, Ingestre Road, Shrewsbury Road, Talbot Road, Waterford Road and Wexford Road.

The chained oak in Alton has been made famous by the ride Hex at Alton Towers and the legend involving the Earl of Shrewsbury.

Wickham has occasionally been hypothesised as an alternative to Nursling ( on the River Test ) or Neatham ( near Alton ) for the Roman station Onna listed in the Antonine Itinerary.

" The British cookery writer Elizabeth David once wrote an essay titled ' Garlic Presses are Utterly Useless '; Alton Brown has expressed suspicion about them on account of their having only one function ( being ' unitask ').

They include Gordon Barnes, Mary E. Barnicle, E. C. Beals, Barbara Bell, Paul Brewster, Genevieve Chandler, Richard Chase, Fletcher Collins, Carita D. Corse, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Dr. E. K. Davis, Kay Dealy, Seamus Doyle, Charles Draves, Marjorie Edgar, John Henry Faulk, Richard Fento, Helen Hartness Flanders, Frank Goodwin, Percy Grainger, Herbert Halpert, Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Myra Hull, George Pullen Jackson, Stetson Kennedy, Bess Lomax, Elizabeth Lomax, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Eloise Linscott, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Walter McClintock, Alton Morris, Juan B. Rael, Vance Randolph, Helen Roberts, Domingo Santa Cruz, Charles Seeger, Mrs. Nicol Smith, Robert Sonkin, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Jean Thomas, Charles Todd, Margaret Valliant, Ivan Walton, Irene Whitfield, John Woods, and John W. Work III. This checklist has been prepared as a result of countless requests.

The River Wey has its source in the town, and the name Alton comes from an Anglo-Saxon word " aewielltun " meaning " farmstead at the source of the river ".

That of Alton Eastbrook has no extant charter, and may never have had one.

Alton still has an annual fair, but it now takes the form of a fun fair.

It also has 13 principal Roads and Avenues running north-south, which, from the Biscayne Bay side, are Bay Road, West Avenue, Alton Road, Lenox Avenue, Michigan Avenue, Jefferson Avenue, Meridian Avenue, Euclid Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Drexel Avenue, Washington Avenue, Collins Avenue ( Florida State Road A1A ), and Ocean Drive.

Handsworth has produced some notable popular musical acts: Steel Pulse ( whose first studio album Handsworth Revolution is named after the area ), Joan Armatrading, Pato Banton, Benjamin Zephaniah, Swami, Apache Indian, Ruby Turner and Bhangra group B21 and Jamaican musicians such as Mighty Diamonds, Alton Ellis, Burning Spear and Dennis Brown have performed in Handsworth, rare photographs of these musicians are held in Pogus Caesar's OOM Gallery Archive.

New Alresford has shops, a tourist information centre, a central conservation area, two tea rooms and is a terminus as with Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam worked heritage railway at Alresford railway station.

Studio One has recorded and released music by ( and had a large hand in shaping the careers of ) artists such as The Skatalites, The Ethiopians, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lee " Scratch " Perry, Burning Spear, Toots & the Maytals, John Holt, Horace Andy, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown, Jackie Mittoo, Gladiators, Michigan & Smiley, Wailing Souls, Dillinger, Delroy Wilson, Heptones, Johnny Osbourne, Marcia Griffiths ( of the I-Threes ), Sugar Minott, The Abyssinians, Culture, Soul Vendors, Lone Ranger, Carlton and The Shoes and Alton Ellis.

Carl Craig has also created his own record label called Planet E Communications, which apart from his own work, has released records by well known techno and house artists like Kevin Saunderson, Alton Miller and Moodymann.

This has caused much distrust between the Altons and other families, especially the rumors that an angry Alton has the ability to kill with his or her mind.

* About Some Precioux Oldies, French band which has toured with Alton Ellis

A National Trust listed specimen of Pseudopanax crassifolius exists on the Alton property at Mount Macedon, Victoria, Australia, which is 21 metres high and has an 11. 5 m spread.

Rendleman Hall, since 1970, has also been the location of the branch U. S. Post Office for zip code 62026, which serves SIUE's campuses in Edwardsville, Alton, and East St. Louis.

Today, National Rail services only operate as far as Alton, while the section between Alton and Alresford has been preserved as a heritage railway called the Mid Hants Watercress Line.

Alton Locke is the story of a young tailor-boy who has instincts and aspirations beyond the normal expectations of his working-class background.

Benes ' father, a gruff novelist named Alton Benes ( portrayed by Lawrence Tierney ), a character based on the novelist Richard Yates, was featured in the episode " The Jacket ".

The Saturday market is also featured on Kitchin's map of Hampshire ( 1751 ) which marks the town as Alton Mt.

The Blackgang Chine park is featured in the book Bollocks to Alton Towers, a humorous book concerned with " uncommonly British days out ".

Blackgang Chine is also featured in a documentary based on Bollocks to Alton Towers called Far From the Sodding Crowd.

In 2006, the Route 66 location was featured on the Food Network show Feasting on Asphalt, hosted by Alton Brown.

The film's cinematography | cinematographer was John Alton, the creator of many of film noir's stylized images.

When he began his collaborative film work, he was influenced by Robert Alton and John Murray Anderson, striving to create moods and character insight with his dances.

* In the Good Eats second season episode " Daily Grind " ( aka " A Grind is a Terrible Thing to Waste "), Alton Brown prepares the " perfect burger " ( as well as meatloaf & meatballs ) for a character named " J. Wellington Whimpy " ( purposely misspelled, but looking mostly like the version of Wimpy played by Paul Dooley in the Popeye film ) played by then cast regular Steve Rooney.

: C & A is also an abbreviation for the Chicago and Alton Railroad, Certification and Accreditation, and the film Cowboys & Aliens.

Among the dead are John Dieckman, an international champion flyfisher and caster ; retired Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly, USN, the president of Long Island University and a two-time Deputy Chief of Naval Operations ; W. Alton Jones, a multi-millionaire former president and chairman of Cities Service Company and close personal friend of former General of the Army and President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Arnold Kirkeby, a millionaire realtor and former head of the Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels ; Louise Lindner Eastman, whose daughter Linda Eastman would later marry Paul McCartney of The Beatles ; Irving Rubine, producer of the film The Guns of Navarone ; Emelyn Whiton, a 1952 Olympic sailing gold medalist ; and the Broadway stage manager Bob Paschall.

* Alton Walpole, film editor of Koyaanisqatsi

The film, which was broadcast on public television and released on DVD, includes showstopping moments from the original specials ( digitally remastered in 5. 1 stereo ) along with newly-taped interviews with Gaynor colleagues, friends, and admirers including Bob Mackie, Carl Reiner, Kristin Chenoweth, Rex Reed, Tony Charmoli, Alton Ruff, Randy Doney, and Kelli O ' Hara.

The Big Combo ( 1955 ) is an American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin.

Alton also photographed many color movies including Slightly Scarlet ( a color film noir ).

Despite the majority of the film being set in Northern Ireland, none of the filming was done there — the railway station at Buggleskelly was the disused Cliddesden railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, which had closed to goods in 1936.

Raw Deal is a 1948 film noir directed by Anthony Mann and shot by cinematographer John Alton.

The Amazing Mr. X ( 1948 ), also known as The Spiritualist, is a film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton.

The film stars James Gunn, Fischer's then-husband, and Peter Alton, who were also co-writers, though about half of the film's dialogue was improvised by the cast.

Mystery Street ( 1950 ) is a black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by famed lensman John Alton.

The film was directed by Anthony Mann with cinematography by noted noir cameraman John Alton.

Although much of the technical information is now obsolete, Alton, who worked on the films noir classics T-Men, He Walked by Night, The Amazing Mr. X, and The Big Combo, explains how lighting, shooting locations, and various camera techniques can be used to create a visual mood in film.

The film was shot by cinematographer John Alton who used shadows and lighting effects to involve an audience despite the fact that the film was shot on a low budget.