The Merton Parkas were a mod revival band, formed in the Merton area of South London in the mid 1970s, by Danny Talbot ( vocals and guitar ), his brother, Mick Talbot ( keyboards ), Neil Hurrell ( bass ) and Simon Smith ( drums ).

The Merton Parkas released a few moderately successful singles, such as: " You Need Wheels ", " Plastic Smile ", " Give it to Me Now " and " Put Me in the Picture ".

Archer eventually formed The Blue Ox Babes, while Blythe, Spooner, Williams, Stoker and Mick Talbot ( ex-The Merton Parkas, who had recently joined on keyboards ) left to form The Bureau.

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Talbot played with the late 1970s mod revivalists The Merton Parkas, Dexys Midnight Runners and The Bureau and can be seen in the latter's music video for their song " Only For Sheep ".

Other bands grew up to feed the desire for mod music, often combining the music of 1960s mod groups with elements of punk music, including The Lambrettas, The Merton Parkas, Squire, and Purple Hearts.

In 2011, Hertford College ranked 5th in the Norrington Table of results, and over the decade 2000 – 2009, it was in the top ten most years, an honour shared with Balliol, Christ Church, Magdalen, Merton, New College, and St John's.

Merton has traditionally had single sex accommodation for freshers, with female students going into the Rose Lane buildings and most male students going into 3 houses on Merton Street.

Merton and the family spent most of that summer visiting the hospital to see his father, who was so ill he could no longer speak.

Merton was perhaps most interested in — and, of all of the Eastern traditions, wrote the most about — Zen.

Merton was one of Talcott Parsons ' most devoted students ; he participated not only in Parsons ' seminars but was also for years an active participant in Parsons ' informal sociology group, which met in Adams House.

Merton has publicly stated that he came to Harvard in order to study with Sorokin but that the thinker who intrigued and inspired him the most was Parsons.

One of his most celebrated collaborations was with Robert K. Merton.

Twenty years after their inception, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Merton Miller, named financial futures as " the most significant innovation of the past two decades.

His best known works is in the television shows The Royle Family, The Fast Show, The Mrs Merton Show, Early Doors, Sunshine and most recently The Cafe.

The newly arrived British 18th Infantry Division — under Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith — was at full strength, but lacked experience and appropriate training ; most of the other units were under strength, a few having been amalgamated due to heavy casualties, as a result of the mainland campaign.

The main sorting office is in Croydon, and the area served includes most of the London Borough of Croydon, the southeastern part of the London Borough of Merton and a small part of the London Borough of Sutton, while most of CR3 and CR6 cover the northern part of the Tandridge district of Surrey and the southern part of CR5 covers a small part of the borough of Reigate and Banstead.

The main sorting office is in Sutton, with outgoing mail being sorted at Croydon Mail Centre, and the area served includes most of the London Borough of Sutton, while most of SM4 covers the southwestern part of the London Borough of Merton and most of SM7 and a small part of SM2 cover the northern part of the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey.

This extinguished all common land rights in Merton and assigned most of the land to Sir Edward.

However, Merton put his mind to good use, becoming one of the most famous and revered spiritual authors in the world.

The most prominent of which were: 1. a " rebellion " led by Rapaport ’ s protégés ( George Klein, Robert Holt, Roy Schafer, and Merton Gill ); object relations theory ; and self psychology.

The chapel is renowned for its beauty and was praised by Thomas Merton as the most perfect monastic chapel he had ever visited.

Prades was the birthplace of Thomas Merton ( 1915 – 1968 ), a famous Trappist ( or Cistercian ) monk who spent most of his life at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky in the United States.

Merton developed notable concepts such as " unintended consequences ", the " reference group ", and " role strain " but is perhaps best known for having created the terms " role model " and " self-fulfilling prophecy ".

The episode was notable for a heated exchange between Kilroy-Silk and his teammate Paul Merton, which resulted in Merton telling Kilroy-Silk to " shut up ".

A notable feature of the Merton Park Ward is that it regularly returns Independents to Merton Council on which the three Merton Park councillors currently hold the balance of power.

Writers for the paper have ranged from young volunteers to such notable figures as Ammon Hennacy, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Karl Meyer, Robert Coles, and Jacques Maritain.

Former FEOY recipients continue to serve the IAFE as Senior Fellows and include such notable names as Myron Scholes, Robert Merton, William Sharpe, and Jonathan Ingersoll.

Street names from this period of subdivision included notable politicians ( Attlee, Truman, Evatt, Eden ), Otago landmarks ( Earnslaw, Hollyford, Hooker, Aorangi, Lyall, Sealy ), names associated with Christ's College, ( Blanch, Bourne, Condell, Hudson, Flower, Harris, Merton, Moreland, Richards, Tothill ), and the HMS Bounty, ( Bounty, Resolution, Pitcairn, Christian ).

Bannister of Exeter and Merton Colleges, in a time which, subject to ratification, is a track record, an English native record, a United Kingdom record, a European record, in a time of < u > three </ u > minutes ...

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

The footbridge has been re-erected at Corfe Castle station on the Swanage Railway ( although some evidence suggests that this was a similar footbridge removed from the site of Merton Park Railway Station.

After a year at Merton College, Oxford, Simcoe was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, but then decided to follow the military career for which his father had intended him.

In 1944 Polanyi was elected a member of the Royal Society, and on his retirement from the University of Manchester in 1958 he was elected a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.

Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.

" Cohen therefore considers it paradoxical " that the rise of early modern science was due at least in part to developments in Christian thought — in particular, to certain aspects of Protestantism " ( a thesis first developed as what is now sometimes called the Merton thesis ).

When his business was enlarged in 1881 by the establishment of a tapestry industry at Merton Abbey Mills, in South West London, Morris found yet another means for expressing the medievalism that inspired all his work, whether on paper or at the loom.

Mr P J M Roberts was educated at Tiffins, Kingston upon Thames and then read Modern History at Merton College, Oxford where he received a first class honours degree.

In 1931 he returned to Oxford as a Fellow of Merton College, where he was highly regarded as a tutor.

The conflicts of the Civil War soon led King Charles to Oxford, with Harvey attending, where the physician was made ' Doctor of Physic ' in 1642 and later Warden of Merton College in 1645.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

The abbey was originally served by a community of Augustinian Canons Regular from Merton Priory and the layout of the original church at Holyrood, now known only from excavations, probably came from the 1125 church at the priory.

It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when Thomas Bodley ( a former fellow of Merton College ) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the University offering to support the development of the library: " where there hath bin hertofore a publike library in Oxford: which you know is apparent by the rome it self remayning, and by your statute records I will take the charge and cost upon me, to reduce it again to his former use.

The area is a possible location for the Battle of Merton, 871, in which King Ethelred of Wessex was either mortally wounded or killed outright.

Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.

Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.

* Lord Horatio Nelson-Admiral ; Nelson's estate, Merton Place, included part of Wimbledon at the eastern end of the Broadway, though, strictly he was a resident of Merton the neighbouring parish

The borough was formed under the London Government Act in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.

The borough derives its name from the historic parish of Merton which was centred on the area now known as South Wimbledon.

Merton was chosen as an acceptable compromise, following a dispute between Wimbledon and Mitcham over the new borough's name.