After two first-class matches against Sri Lankan domestic teams over the winter of 1977-78, in which he scored 76 runs at 38. 00 in first-class and a score of 22 in the only one day fixture, Gower topped 1, 000 runs in a season for the first time in his career, scoring 1098 runs at 37. 86 including two hundreds, five fifties and a call up to the national team.

After another successful international tour, Gower returned to England to peak 1, 000 runs again with a career-best 1530 at 46. 36, with two hundreds, and scored five further hundreds for only the second time in 1983, where he again topped 1, 000 runs, 1, 253 this time at 46. 40.

* BBC Gower website

Since leaving the game, Gower has enjoyed a new career as a cricket broadcaster and television personality, including being one of the team captains on the popular BBC comedy sports quiz, They Think It's All Over from 1995 till 2003.

In March 2011 she played Elizabeth Lavenza, the bride of Victor Frankenstein, played by Andrew Gower, in an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein which aired on BBC 3, live from the derelict Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds, in front of an audience of 12, 000.

The Alamo Drafthouse held two sold-out screenings of the Monster Squad on January 9, 2010 with stars Andre Gower, Ryan Lambert, and Jon Gries along with writer Shane Black and director Fred Dekker all in attendance.

A competition to design a new School building to be sited along Gower Street in Bloomsbury was held involving five architects, all experienced in laboratory design and construction.

A film, Gower Boy, made by artist Gee Vaucher and musician Huw Warren, described as a " gentle, contemplative exploration of the Gower Peninsula in Wales ", debuted at the 14th Raindance Film Festival in October 2006.

* Gower by Jonathan Mullard, published in 2006 as part of the Collins New Naturalist series.

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Raised beaches are found in a wide variety of coast and geodynamical background such as subduction on the pacific coast of South America ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), of North America, passive margin of the Atlantic coast of South America ( Rostami et al., 2000 ), collision context on the Pacific coast of Kamchatka ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan ( Ota and Yamaguchi, 2004 ), passive margin of the South China sea coast ( Pedoja et al., in press ), on west-facing Atlantic coasts, such as Donegal Bay, County Cork and County Kerry in Ireland ; Bude, Widemouth Bay, Crackington Haven, Tintagel, Perranporth and St Ives in Cornwall, the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay in Wales, the Isle of Jura and Isle of Arran in Scotland, Finistère in Brittany and Galicia in Northern Spain and at Squally Point in the Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, Nova Scotia.

The Sir Roger Bannister Sports Centre was officially opened by Sir Roger ( himself an Old Gower ) in December 2006.

The 2006 festival welcomed many household names including Lord Falconer, Zadie Smith ( who, according to reports mentioned that one of the characters in her second book was based on an Old Gower ), Matthew Pinsent and Rupert Everett, as well as a multitude of journalists, actors, authors, musicians, economists, and many more.

In 2006 Gower married Panthers cheerleader Amanda Flynn.

After the war he retired to his farm near Gower, Missouri and was noted to deny many of his pro-slavery public statements made prior to the Civil War.

He later stated on They Think It's All Over that as a teenager he idolised former England captain David Gower, who was playing for Leicestershire at the time.

According to John Gower in Book 7 of the Confessio Amantis, this plant was the herb of the fourth star of Nectanabus ' astrology, Capella.

This multi-volume work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Macartney and from the papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition.

All human civilization east of the Cloudspine mountain range, from the Twelve Duns to Gower, and south to the borders of Forest Heart, was eradicated.

The Red Lady of Paviland, a human skeleton dyed in red ochre, was discovered in 1823 in one of the Paviland limestone caves of the Gower Peninsula in Swansea, South Wales.

Roman rule in Wales was a military occupation, save for the southern coastal region of South Wales east of the Gower Peninsula, where there is a legacy of Romanisation.

A new pavilion was opened by David Gower on 17 September 2005

One daughter, Gwladus Ddu, (" Gwladus the Dark ") was already married to Reginald de Braose of Brecon and Abergavenny, but with Reginald an unreliable ally Llywelyn married another daughter, Marared, to John de Braose of Gower, Reginald's nephew.

The oldest known human burial in Great Britain – the Red Lady of Paviland – was discovered in a coastal cave between Port Eynon and Rhossili, on the Gower Peninsula.

In modern times Gower was administered as a Rural District of Glamorgan.

The turn-out for Gower was 47. 51 %.

* David Gower, former England cricketer and current cricket commentator for Sky Sports was educated for a time in Quorn, at the Old Primary School

It was originally created as an administrative county council on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe.

The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios.

On August 12, 1970 Stonehill was led to Christ by Larry Norman in the kitchen of Norman's apartment at 1140 North Gower Street, Hollywood.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in John Millais's parents ' house on Gower Street in 1848.

Under Bishop Gower ( 1328 – 1347 ) the Cathedral was modified further, with the rood screen and the Bishop ’ s Palace, intended as permanent reminders of his episcopacy.

The picture on the front cover of the hardback edition was of a Ditchingham school boy, Douglas Walter Gower, taken from a painting by the artist Edward Seago.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in John Millais's parents ' house on Gower Street, London in 1848.

The first AONB was awarded in 1956 to the Gower Peninsula, south Wales.

This was far from being the case and during 1927, the Morrells were compelled to sell the manorhouse and its estate, and move to more modest quarters in Gower Street.

Gower also claims Britain's Best Beach, Three Cliffs Bay.

On 12 August 2007 she appeared on ITV's Britain's Favourite View, nominating Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower Peninsula as Britain's favourite view.

The 1977 season saw Gower play 25 matches, with another career best of 144 *, his only century of the season.

Gower returned to England in 1978 from an international tour with a career best 200 *, forming part of his 957 runs for the season at 41. 60, with eight fifties to go with that one hundred.

" The 1980 season in England saw Gower again top 1, 000 runs, with 1142 at 48. 89, including five hundreds and a career best 156 *.

During this season, Gower played 19 matches, scoring a career best 1418 runs at 48. 89, including one knock of 156 *.

Gower scored one century in England and Australia in the next two seasons, before topping 1, 000 runs for three consecutive series ', in 1987, 1988 and 1989, with a total of seven centuries including his career best 228.

Despite a prolific scoring career, Gower is often best remembered for his languid, laid-back approach both on and off the field.

New York Herald Tribune critic Walter Kerr praised Gower Champion's direction but criticized the libretto and score, stating that " Mr. Champion has been very much responsible for the gayety ( sic ), the winsomeness, and the exuberant zing of the occasion ... he has not always been given the very best to work with ... every once in a while, Michael Stewart's book starts to break down and cry ... Lee Adams's lyrics lean rather heavily on the new " talk-out-the-plot " technique, and Charles Strouse's tunes, though jaunty, are whisper-thin.

His excellent man-management skills ( he was once described by Rodney Hogg as having " a degree in people ") drew the very best from the players in his team, although he was fortunate to be able to call on the services of Bob Willis, David Gower and Ian Botham at their peak.

This tour established Trescothick's reputation as one of England's best batsmen against spin bowling: according to David Gower, he was " judging line and length very well ".

Brian Adias ( real name Brian Gower ) was a professional wrestler best known for his time in World Class Championship Wrestling ( WCCW ).