In the early 19th century, Uxbridge had an unsavoury reputation.

In the early 1900s, the Uxbridge and District Electricity Supply Company was established in Waterloo Road, much of the town was connected by 1902.

Much of the residential areas were expanded with the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Harrow on the Hill to Uxbridge in the early 1900s and the gradual establishment of stops along the line, becoming known as " Metro-land ".

In the early 18th century, a Quaker colony developed in what is now North Smithfield ( then Smithfield ), which extended into south Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

There was an active Quaker community in early Smithfield that extended north to Uxbridge, Massachusetts, in the early 18th century.

The four wedges ( Albion, Uxbridge, Pontypool and Rice Lake from west to east ) formed in stages, though some synchronous formation also occurred at an early period of formation.

The town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts became an early textile center in the Blackstone Valley, which was known for the manufacture of cashmere wool and satinets, from circa 1810.

The Royal Air Force had a ceremonial drill unit based at the Royal Air Force Depot at Uxbridge in Middlesex since the early 1920s.

In the early 1960s, the remaining P ( or CP ) stock still used on the Uxbridge services was transferred to the District Line.

In the early 1930s, the London Electric Railway, precursor of the London Underground and owner of the District and Piccadilly Lines, began the reconstruction of the tracks between Hammersmith and Acton Town to enable the Piccadilly Line to be extended from Hammersmith to Uxbridge and Hounslow West ( then the terminus of what is now the Heathrow branch ).

In the early 1930s, the London Electric Railway, precursor of the London Underground and owner of the District and Piccadilly Lines, began the reconstruction of the tracks between Hammersmith and Acton Town to enable the Piccadilly Line to be extended from Hammersmith to Uxbridge and Hounslow West ( then the terminus of what is now the Heathrow branch ).

In 1959 she became a trainee reporter, first on the Uxbridge Post, and in the early 1960s on Boyfriend, a weekly magazine for teen girls.

Animal died in the bath in the early ' 80s and Lindsay who used to own a music shop in Uxbridge died a couple of years ago.

The first passenger carrying narrow gauge railway in North America, the Toronto and Nipissing Railway arrived in Uxbridge in June 1871, and for over a decade Uxbridge was the headquarters of the railway.

* John Capron and Sons 1820-installed the first power looms for woolens in North America at Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

* July 12-The first narrow gauge railway in North America, the Toronto and Nipissing Railway, using a track gauge of 3 ft 6 in ( 1, 067 mm ), opens to Uxbridge.

A charter of Henry II gives the name as Hestune, meaning " enclosed settlement ", which is justified by its location in what was the Warren of Staines, between the ancient Roman road to Bath, and the Uxbridge Road to Oxford.

The first Air Force Dress Uniform, " Uxbridge Blue ", was made here.

She served 17 months in the army, as " Robert Shurtliff ", of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point in 1783.

* McFadzean, E. S. ( 1996 ), " New Ways of Thinking: An Evaluation of K-Groupware and Creative Problem Solving ", Doctoral Dissertation, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex.

T. E. Lawrence, better known as " Lawrence of Arabia ", underwent initial training at the Uxbridge Depot in 1922 after enlisting in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume-Ross.

Although, much less common now, the show has over the decades featured many a letter beginning " Why, oh why, oh why ..." and signed " Upset of Uxbridge " or " Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ", or something similar ( these days, most, if not all, simply use their real names ), with the complaints receiving little but a pre-packaged witty comment from the presenter.

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He managed a hotel in the center of Uxbridge and made a considerable sum of money which he invested in a cotton mill at Holland, Massachusetts, before moving West.

The numbered route does not cross the stateline, but does continue as " Douglas Pike " through the SW corner of Uxbridge, crossing MA Route 98 and continuing to the center of Douglas.

Daniel Day established a wool carding mill in the Blackstone Valley at Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1809, the third woollen mill established in the U. S. ( The first was in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.

The town was originally, including the modern-day towns of Milford, Bellingham, Hopedale, Uxbridge, Upton, Blackstone, Northbridge and Millville.

From there, it follows a rough southeast course through Millbury, Sutton, Grafton, Northbridge, Uxbridge, Millville, and Blackstone.

Other tributaries join the Blackstone along the way, such as the West and Mumford River, at Uxbridge, and The Branch River in North Smithfield.

The community groups are Burrillville, Scituate, Foster / Glocester, Johnston, Smithfield, North Providence, Providence, Cranston, Woonsocket, Blackstone, Bellingham, North Smithfield, Millville, Uxbridge, Cumberland, Lincoln, Central Falls and Pawtucket.

: Blackstone, Brookfield, Charlton, Douglas, Dudley, East Brookfield, Grafton, Hopedale, Leicester, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, North Brookfield, Northbridge, Oxford, Southbridge, Spencer, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Warren, Webster.

In Worcester County: Athol, Auburn, Barre, Blackstone, Boylston, Douglas, Grafton, Hardwick, Holden, Hubbardston, Leicester, Leominster, Mendon, Millbury, Millville, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northborough, Northbridge, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Petersham, Phillipston, Princeton, Royalston, Rutland, Shrewsbury, Spencer, Sterling, Sutton, Templeton, Upton, Uxbridge, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield, Westborough, Worcester, and Precinct 1 in Winchendon.

A typical summer view in the Blackstone Valley near Uxbridge, Massachusetts

The Command's stations included Amport House, Andover, Hampshire ; RAF Brampton / Wyton / Henlow, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire ; JSU Corsham, Wilts ; RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton ; the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire ; RAF Digby, Lincoln ; RAF Halton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire ; Headley Court, Epsom, Surrey ; RAF Innsworth, Gloucester ; RAF Linton-on-Ouse, York ; RAF Scampton, Lincs ; RAF Sealand, Deeside, Flintshire ; RAF Shawbury, Shrewsbury ; RAF St Athan, Barry, South Glamorgan ; RAF Uxbridge, Middlesex ; RAF Valley, Anglesey ; and RAF Woodvale, Formby, Liverpool.

York-Durham Heritage Railway runs historical trains between the station and Uxbridge on summer weekends.

Uxbridge played key roles in women's rights by granting town meeting voting rights to America's first woman voter, Lydia Taft, and the right to serve on juries to Massachusetts's first women jurors, and playing minor roles in the narratives of American Revolution soldier, Deborah Sampson, and abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster.

It also housed the RAF Uxbridge Language School, where Polish Air Force pilots were taught key RAF codewords.

The Bachman Uxbridge Worsted Company's proposed 1954 buyout of the American Woolen Company would have created America's largest woolen conglomerate.

Uxbridge Vine Street station opened on 8 September 1856 as Uxbridge Station and was the earliest of three railway stations in Uxbridge.

Among the earliest manufacturers of US military uniforms was the Capron Mills at Uxbridge, Massachusetts from 1820.

Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

In the summer of 1933 Blair left Hawthorns to become a teacher at Frays College, in Uxbridge, West London.

He was taken to Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, where for a time his life was believed to be in danger.

William Ponsonby, before leading the British cavalry charge, tells Uxbridge that his father had been killed in battle by lancers, not least because he had been riding an inferior horse: in fact his father had been a politician who died of natural causes back in England, and he is simply foretelling his own fate in the battle.

* June 27 – Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a town.

One other store opened in Uxbridge but all closed in the mid 1990s.

* January 29 – English Civil War: Armistice talks open at Uxbridge.

* February 28 – English Civil War: Uxbridge armistice talks fail.

* January 22 – Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge ( d. 1769 )

Male competitors stayed at RAF camps in Uxbridge and West Drayton, and an Army camp in Richmond ; female competitors in London colleges.

It then heads westward over level ground through Southall, Hayes and West Drayton until it reaches the valley of the River Colne where it swings northward to Cowley through Uxbridge.

Just before Uxbridge is Cowley Peachey junction, where the Slough Arm branches off westward.

At Cowley, the canal begins to climb the valley of the River Colne following a north-westerly course to Uxbridge After Denham and Harefield, it passes to the south of Rickmansworth.

With its headquarters in Uxbridge, London, England, the company operates in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Where Route 16 turns south, the Post Road continues east as Northeast Main Street, which leads to the Uxbridge town line.

Entering Uxbridge, the name of the road changes to Hartford Avenue.

The Post Road enters the town from Uxbridge as Hartford Avenue West.

Stephenson took this precaution because of a recent fire on the Great Western Railway at Uxbridge, London, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel's bridge caught fire and collapsed.

In 1731, the extreme western portions of Suffolk County, ( which included Uxbridge ), were split off to become part of Worcester County.

Sykes's small office above a grocer's shop at 130 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, was shared from around 1953 by Milligan.

Trusted by the popular party, Pembroke was made governor of the Isle of Wight, and he was one of the representatives of the parliament on several occasions, notably during the negotiations at Uxbridge in 1645 and at Newport in 1648, and when the Scots surrendered Charles in 1647.