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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 ).
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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 ".
The Merton Parkas ' most notable track was " You Need Wheels ", which reached # 40 in the UK Singles Chart in the summer of 1979.
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.
Merton and were
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.
If any of the norms were violated, Merton determined the enterprise to be nonscience.
The foundation of Peterhouse dates to 1280, when letters patent from Edward I dated Burgh, Suffolk, 24 December 1280 allowed Hugo de Balsham to keep a number of scholars in the Hospital of St John, where they were to live according to the rules of the scholars of Merton.
Merton Hall is so called because from 1266 until 1959 both the School of Pythagoras and Merton Hall were property of Merton College, Oxford.
Many of the show's performers, including Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence and Sandi Toksvig, were regulars with The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational group based at London's Comedy Store.
In conjunction with the works to integrate the two lines, two major extensions were undertaken: northwards to Edgware in Middlesex ( now in the London Borough of Barnet ) and southwards to Morden in Surrey ( then in the Merton and Morden Urban District, but now in the London Borough of Merton ).
Merton Abbey Mills were the Liberty silk-printing works.
During this, time large numbers of villas and terraced houses were built along the roads from the centre towards neighbouring Putney, Merton Park and Raynes Park.
After acquiring from Merton College, Oxford on part of Holywell Great Meadow for £ 57, 690, monies were sought from the University Grants Committee who also agreed to supply £ 250, 000 towards the building, and additional funds up to £ 400, 000 for all facilities.
But he having understood that the king was gone, thinly attended, on a visit to a lady at Merton, rode after him, and beset him therein ; surrounding the stronghold without, ere the attendants of the king were aware of him.
Meanwhile, Owen Merton was off traveling and painting and attending an exhibition of his work in London, but in the summer of 1928 he took Merton out of the Lycée Ingres, informing him that they were headed together to England.
Merton also published several works for the monastery that year, which were: Guide to Cistercian Life, Cistercian Contemplatives, Figures for an Apocalypse, and The Spirit of Simplicity.
This is not to say that Merton believed that these religions did not have valuable rituals or practices for him and other Christians, but that, doctrinally, Merton was so committed to Christianity and he felt that practitioners of other faiths were so committed to their own doctrines that any discussion of doctrine would be useless for all involved.
" Eastern traditions, for Merton, were mostly untainted by this type of thinking and thus had much to offer in terms of how to think of and understand oneself.
In 1264 Walter drew up statutes for a " house of the scholars of Merton ", at Malden in Surrey ; ten years later these scholars were transferred to Oxford, and a permanent house established.
Two readerships were founded at Merton College, Oxford, and one at St John's College, Cambridge, but owing to neglect and bad management of the funds, they fell into uselessness and obscurity.
In 1841, McMillan and Strzelecki made journeys of exploration through the region which would later be named Gippsland and during the 1840s the squatting runs of Maryvale, Merton Rush and Hazelwood were taken up in the area which is now Morwell.
The first focus groups were created at the Bureau of Applied Social Research in the USA, by associate director, sociologist Robert K. Merton.
Merton and revival
The Philokalia teachings have also influenced the revival of interior prayer in modern times through the centering prayer practices taught by Thomas Keating and Thomas Merton.
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* Dodd and Roog formed a band called Big View ( with Edge on drums ) and recorded a single called, " August Grass ", which was released on Point Records ( owned by Merton, the Thompson Twins publisher ) in 1982.
Merton and formed
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.
South Wimbledon formed the northeastern section of the parish of Merton, with the separate parish of Wimbledon located to the north.
South Wimbledon has formed part of the London Borough of Merton since 1965.
In October 1985, an improvisational group called The Comedy Store Players was formed, consisting of Mike Myers, Neil Mullarkey, Kit Hollerbach, Dave Cohen and Paul Merton.
Much of the Gyffard music may have been composed during Sheppard ’ s Oxford years ( the compiler had formerly been a Fellow of Merton College Oxford ); but the music from the Christ Church part-books probably formed part of the repertory of the Chapel Royal choir during the 1550s, when Sheppard, Tallis and William Mundy were the three principal composing members of the choir.
The present park and sports fields between Hillcross Avenue, London Road / Epsom Road and Lower Morden Lane are owned and managed by the London Borough of Merton parks department and cover land that previously formed the grounds of Morden Park House, a small 18th century country estate ( not to be confused with Morden Hall Park, the National Trust property close to Morden town centre ).
The Wandle formed south London's nearest equivalent to the Lea Valley, with an industrial corridor stretching from the Thames at Wandsworth through Merton and Mitcham to Beddington and Croydon.
Merton handed these processes over to the National Physical Laboratory ( NPL ) for further development and they formed the basis of a considerable research programme.
Merton and area
Mitcham is a district in the south west area of London, in the London Borough of Merton.
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.
The borough derives its name from the historic parish of Merton which was centred on the area now known as South Wimbledon.
Parks ' Fly Shop, one of the oldest fly shops and guiding operations in the Yellowstone area, was started by Merton Parks in 1953.
Colliers Wood is an area in south west London, England, in the London Borough of Merton.
This area is made up of the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth.
* Colliers Wood, an area in the London Borough of Merton
The area is part of the historic parish of Merton.
The approximate boundaries of the Merton Park area can be considered to be Kingston Road ( A238 ) to the north, Dorset Road ( B285 ) and Morden Road ( A24 ) to the east, Martin Way to the south and Aylward Road to the west.
Additionally, the area north of Kingston Road between Merton Hall Road, Avebury Road and Kingswood Road is often included.
The John Innes Society is a charity that promotes good design and area embellishment in Merton Park.
The area now known as Merton Park was farm land owned by City merchant John Innes who was the local " lord of the manor ".
The northern section of Merton Park each side of Kingston Road is now a conservation area.
* Merton refers to the Barossa Road area, and the surrounding bushlands between Glenorchy and Lenah Valley.
When the District & London & South Western Railway from Wimbledon to Putney Bridge opened in June 1889, the area started to take off, with the first school opening a year later on Merton Road, another of the main thoroughfares that were formerly paths through fields.
Historically, the area of Raynes Park south of Coombe Lane and Kingston Road was part of the parish of Merton and the area north of that line was part of the Parish of Wimbledon.
The name Raynes Park was originally used in the 1870s and only applied to the area south of the railway line where the local landowner, Richard Garth, Lord of the Manor of the adjacent parish of Morden, planned to develop a new garden suburb similar to that being developed by John Innes at Merton Park to the east.
The Merton, completed in 2005, is a high-rise private housing development in the area.
Morden Park is an area within the district of Morden in the London Borough of Merton, and includes the Park itself, an area of green space in an otherwise dense cluster of 1930s suburban housing.
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.
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