The Leas Lift connects the Leas with the beach. Bandstand near the Leas Cliff Lift

Alveley Cricket Club ), was founded in 1908 and played at Coton Hall on the outskirts of the village, at the former home of general Robert E Leas ancestors.

The major landmark in Folkestone, apart from the Harbour, is the Leas, the cliffs above the beach.

The Great North Run is the world's biggest half marathon which takes place every September / October, starting in Newcastle and finishing on The Leas in South Shields.

Thames Estuary Yacht Club ( TEYC ) is located at 3 The Leas, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, overlooking the Thames Estuary.

The Leas, located to the north, is an important seabird sanctuary.

The line is crossed by Teddars Leas Road ( bridge ) and Badger's Bridge as well as the Golf Course.

It is formed where a small unnamed stream flows through low-lying flat farmland just inland from Leas Foot Sand, a small beach just to the southwest of the village.

After they married, they used their wedding dowry as collateral to rent the Leas Pavilion, a repertory theatre in Folkestone, Kent.

The town has seven primary schools – Highfields Community, Millfields, Pear Tree, St Anne's ( Catholic ), Stapeley Broad Lane ( Church of England ), The Weaver and The Wyche, two secondary schools Brine Leas School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College, as well as Reaseheath College which runs both Further Education and Higher Education courses ( in conjunction with Harper Adams University College and the University of Chester ).

The town has extensive beaches including sand dunes as well as dramatic Magnesian Limestone cliffs with grassy areas above known as The Leas, which cover three miles of this coastline and are a National Trust protected area.

Mike boarded at the Leas Preparatory School in Hoylake and moved at the age of 13 to Charterhouse School, where he joined the Anon and formed a songwriting partnership with fellow guitarist Anthony Phillips.

Educated at The Leas, Hoylake, Marlborough College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he first worked with Wilson, Vosper & Coltart, Ships Store & Export Merchants, in Liverpool.

Henley also has a rugby union club Henley Hawks who play at Dry Leas.

The long-established Metropole Galleries, located in the one-time Metropole Hotel on the Leas, staged year round exhibitions until it closed in 2008.

King Edward VII and his mistress Alice Keppel ( great-grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall ) regularly enjoyed the luxury ( and discretion ) of the Grand Hotel on The Leas.

The Leas and McVitty Tannery was located here, a tannery known for quality hides.

The Benjamin B. Leas House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

A new Sixth Form at Brine Leas opened in September 2010.

footballer in the 1990s, used to reside in Leas Close in the Mount Pleasant area.

He served as Leas Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann.

Prominent Quaker millers, including the Canbys, Leas, and Tatnalls, built their stone homes along Market Street, and the built the Brandywine Academy building in 1798.

Leas Ceann Comhairle 1928.

St Ita's was featured in the RTÉ documentary The Asylum in 2005, soon after Prime Time investigated the Leas Cross nursing home, where many former patients had been transferred to, and mistreated by staff.

The Leas were convicted on three of seven counts.

After the Leas ’ appeals were exhausted and after the U. S. Supreme Court denied their petition for the writ of certiorari, both Leas reported for imprisonment at Raleigh in May 1934.

The starting players in Dallas ' defensive secondary, future Hall of Fame cornerback Mel Renfro, cornerback Mark Washington, and safeties Charlie Waters and Pro Bowler Cliff Harris, combined for 12 interceptions.

Live Oak has no downtown center, but 17th Avenue between Highway 1 and East Cliff Drive is the address for several schools, the Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange Hall, the Fire Department, a Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department, the Family Swim Center, and the majority of Live Oak's business establishments.

The Cedar Cliff Land Company ran newspaper advertisements targeted at upwardly mobile immigrants who worked in Paterson's silk industry, offering the city-sized lots for sale at auctions ( with free lunches and brass bands ) held at St. Mary's Parish Hall, and also opened the Cedar Cliff Silk Mill, which became one of several silk mills in the community.

* Beware the Creeper # 1-5 ( June-Oct ) by Jason Hall and Cliff Chiang

* When I See an Elephant Fly ( Cliff Edwards and the Hall Johnson Choir )

Cliff was one of five performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

In September 2009, Cliff was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following a campaign on his behalf by the American, Charles Earle.

She appeared in Twelfth Night, produced by Hallmark Hall of Fame ; in Days of Wine and Roses with Cliff Robertson, presented by Playhouse 90 on October 2, 1958 ( in the film version, their roles were taken over by Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick ); and in Winterset, presented by Playhouse 90 in 1959.

Some of the actors that appeared multiple times on the show include George O. Petrie and Frank Marth as various characters, Ethel Waite Owen as Alice's mother, Zamah Cunningham as Mrs. Manicotti, and Cliff Hall as the Raccoon Lodge President.

* Cliff Hall of The Spinners lived in Rainhill.

The musicians involved in these albums-and at Condon's club-included Wild Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett ( cornet ), Billy Butterfield ( trumpet ), Edmond Hall, Peanuts Hucko, Pee Wee Russell, Bob Wilber ( clarinet ), Cutty Cutshall, Lou McGarity, George Brunies ( trombone ), Bud Freeman ( tenor sax ), Gene Schroeder, Dick Cary, Ralph Sutton ( piano ), Bob Casey, Walter Page, Jack Lesberg, Al Hall ( bass ), George Wettling, Buzzy Drootin, Cliff Leeman ( drums ).

The union building, on the banks of the Afon Dulas and extended in 1998, contains a student bar and small club, known as the Xtension, which hosted parties and live music events ; the Union also had a CineClub showing films in the Arts Hall and Cliff Tucker Theatre.

Notable residents have included: comedians Ben Lyon and Bud Flanagan ; actor Peter Finch ; politician Harold Wilson ; writer Radclyffe Hall ; former Lord Chief Justice Lord Goddard ; Christine Keeler ; journalist Norman Cliff ; Anne, the Princess Royal ; politician William Hague.

He put together a formidable collection of talent, including pitcher / outfielder Bullet Rogan, an eventual Hall of Famer who established himself as one of the most popular stars of the new league ; sluggers Dobie Moore, Heavy Johnson, George Carr, and Hurley McNair ; and pitchers Rube Currie and Cliff Bell.

An author of six books chronicling his love affair with basketball, Vitale received the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award ( 1998 ), won the NABC Cliff Wells Appreciation Award in 2000 and was admitted to the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.

The Festival of Light was organised by Mary Whitehouse at Methodist Central Hall, and included Cliff Richard and Malcolm Muggeridge.

* Dead Rising – Cliff Hudson, Roger Hall

The Creeper found a new guise in the early 20th century when the Beware the Creeper series ( written by Jason Hall and illustrated by Cliff Chiang ) was released under the Vertigo brand.

Among them, two alumni have been inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame-Earl " Greasy " Neale ' 15 of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1969 and Cliff Battles ' 33 of the Washington Redskins in 1968.

He toured the UK with Cliff Richard and appeared at top venues, including the Royal Albert Hall.

The artist, Cliff Fragua, was the first American Indian artist to have a statue placed in the Statuary Hall.