While William was in Normandy, a former ally, Eustace, the Count of Boulogne, invaded at Dover but was repulsed.

Services related to the Port of Dover provide a great deal of the town ’ s employment, as does tourism, although many of the former ferry services have declined.

Dover ’ s main communications artery, the A2 road replicates two former routes, connecting the town with Canterbury.

The Duke of York's Royal Military School, England's only military boarding school for children of service personnel ( co-ed ages 11 – 18 ), is also located in Dover, next to the former site of Connaught Barracks.

Dover has one hospital, Buckland Hospital located in a former Victorian workhouse on Coombe Valley Road.

* Kenneth Dover ( 1920 – 2010 ), British academic ; former Chancellor of the University of St Andrews

* Mildred Dover ( born 1941 ), former Canadian politician

Federally, Dover is part of Delaware's At-large congressional district, represented by Democrat John C. Carney, Jr., elected in 2010 and a former lieutenant governor of Delaware.

Dover is located on a former Pennsylvania Railroad line, which is now served by Norfolk Southern.

In 1538 Cromwell deputed Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover and former Provincial of the Dominicans, to obtain the friars ' surrender ; which he did by drafting new injunctions that strictly enforced each order's rule, facing the friars with the choice of compliance with the king's wishes, or starvation.

Among the former are Erith, in the 17th century a port on the Thames, and an industrial town in the later 19th century ; Bexleyheath, created at the same time on the London to Dover road.

Route 10 was designated in 1927 to run from Jersey City to Dover, following the former Newark and Mount Pleasant Turnpike west of Newark.

Churchill was married to the former Audra Hill and had a son, Vance Churchill, and a daughter, Elaine C. Berry, both of Dover.

* Dover was a former post office in the township that operated from May 28, 1836, until October 26, 1841.

Notable current and former residents of Dover include:

In 1637 the Pequots having been driven from their former homes in Connecticut settled in what is now Dover.

Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line runs through Dover with two rail commuter rail stations in town, with service to New York City via the Harlem Line, with the Harlem Valley – Wingdale at the former State Hospital & Route 22, and the Dover Plains right in the town center.

The first lineup of the band consisted of Slash, two of his Guns N ' Roses band mates — drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Gilby Clarke — as well as Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez and former Jellyfish live guitarist Eric Dover on lead vocals.

Slash decided to record the Snakepit demos with Sorum, Clarke and Inez, later adding former Jellyfish live guitarist Eric Dover as lead vocalist.

In the book The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, first printed in 1893 and recently by Dover Publications, the editor Elliott Coues expresses doubt about Thomas Jefferson's conclusion that Lewis committed suicide as presented in the former President's Memoir of Meriwether Lewis, which is included in the book.

In the ensuing Battle of Dover, Eustace wrought havoc among his former allies, until the English blinded the French with powdered lime.

It was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham.

Today Asmara is worldwide known for its early twentieth century Italian buildings, including the Art Deco Cinema Impero, " Cubist " Africa Pension, eclectic Orthodox Cathedral and former Opera House, the futurist Fiat Tagliero Building, neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic Cathedral, and the neoclassical Governor's Palace.

Nearby buildings include the Dresden State Theatre to the southwest, the Haus am Zwinger to the south, the Taschenbergpalais hotel to the southeast, the west wing of the palace with its Green Vault to the east, the Altstädtische Hauptwache to the northeast, the Semper Opera to the north and the former royal stables to the northwest.

The Orpheum Theatre was built in 1928 upon the former property of the Grand Opera House, which was burnt to the ground in 1923 during a strip tease performance by Blossom Seeley.

Still later, a lease on the Adelphi Theatre on 54th Street and the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street gave the network a site for variety shows, and in 1954, the lavish DuMont Tele-Centre opened in the former Jacob Ruppert's Central Opera House at 205 East 67th Street.

Mulgrew remains friends with former co-star Ilene Kristen and presented a special Soap Opera Digest Award to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine in 1995.

* John Harrison former Technical & Commercial Director Royal Opera House lives in Purley.

Many of the notable and historic buildings in Fort Payne date from this period of economic growth, including the state's oldest standing theater, the Fort Payne Opera House ; the former factory of the Hardware Manufacturing Company ( today known as the W. B.

Today the building houses the Village offices and includes the 1891 Fredonia Opera House, a former Vaudeville theater that fell into disrepair in the 1970s while being operated as a movie house.

The annual summer opera festival, the Dalhalla Opera, takes place 7km north of the town in an open-air theatre located in a former limestone quarry.

Ellendale is the home of Trinity Bible College, located on the former campus of the North Dakota State Normal and Industrial School and the Ellendale Opera House currently under renovation.

Notable natives of Centralia include modern dancer Merce Cunningham, Arizona Diamondback Lyle Overbay, cable television and early mobile phone entrepreneur Craig McCaw, CFL offensive lineman Calvin Armstrong, video game designer and programmer Soren Johnson, Stanford quarterback Tavita Pritchard, former MLB outfielder Bob Coluccio, Metropolitan Opera soprano Angela Meade.

* Leonard Ingrams, former Managing Director and founder of Garsington Opera.

It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as " Covent Garden ".

Another case he was present at involved the investigation and in-depth coverage of the former Paris Opera ( presently housing the Paris Ballet ).

The Juilliard Vocal Arts department now incorporates the former Juilliard Opera Center.

In Australia, they take such forms as a " NO WAR " slogan being painted on the Sydney Opera House, Greenpeace demonstrators chaining themselves to the gates of the Australian Prime Minister's residence ( the Lodge ) and a former Navy officer burning his uniform outside Australia's Parliament House.

The former, however, would feature all the ingredients that would later appear in Attention Scum, a BBC2 series fronted by Simon Munnery's League Against Tedium character, which also featured the likes of Kevin Eldon, Johnny Vegas and Roger Mann, as well as Richard Thomas and opera singer Lori Lixenberg, in their guise as " Kombat Opera ".

While performing the song " Phantom of the Opera " by Iron Maiden, the band was spotted by Brian Slagel, a former music journalist who had recently founded Metal Blade Records.

To expand the Met's support to its national radio audience, the Met board's Eleanor Robson Belmont, the former actress and wife to industrialist August Belmont, founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild.

In the categories of Best Musical and Outstanding Performance by an Actor, Chess lost to The Phantom of the Opera, by Rice's former collaborator Andrew Lloyd Webber.

* Rudolf Bing ( 1902 – 1997 ), former General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera.

Other notable directors to have participated in Werkstatt Bayreuth included Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Sir Peter Hall of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Götz Friedrich of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Harry Kupfer of the Berlin State Opera in the former communist East Germany

He and his fourth wife, the former Patricia Bloomfield, a barrister and past viola player in the Covent Garden Opera orchestra, reside in Lucerne, Switzerland.

It is located in Stockholm's borough Norrmalm in the street Strömgatan on the North side of the Norrström river between Rosenbad, the Government Chancellery ( in the West ), and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs ( the former Arvfurstens Palats ) and the Royal Swedish Opera on Gustav Adolfs torg ( in the East ).