In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

Brian Marsden of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams noted that the comet lay only about 4 degrees from Jupiter as seen from Earth, and that while this could of course be a line of sight effect, its apparent motion in the sky suggested that it was physically close to the giant planet.

More work was published in 1909 by Geiger and Marsden and further greatly expanded work was published in 1910 by Geiger, In 1911-2 Rutherford went before the Royal Society to explain the experiments and propound the new theory of the atomic nucleus as we now understand it.

Around this time the area around Goosnargh was home to several Catholic families – Keighley, Beesley, Hesketh, Marsden, and Threlfall.

The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foil experiment under the direction of Rutherford, in which they fired a beam of alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at layers of gold leaf only a few atoms thick.

He was assistant editor with Leonard Compton-Rickett under Dora Marsden.

This show was written by Eric Merriman and, for the first two series, Barry Took ; Horne's supporting players were Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Ron Moody ( soon succeeded by Bill Pertwee ).

With Barry Took as script editor ( and later producer ), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: Graham Stark, for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Betty Marsden.

The series was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing, and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Betty Marsden played Dame Celia Molestrangler, and Hugh Paddick was ' ageing juvenile ' Binkie Huckaback ( named after theatrical impresario Binkie Beaumont ).

He was also the self-styled king ( later dictator ) of Peasemoldia, a small slum area in north London just off the Balls Pond Road, together with his wife Buttercup ( Marsden ), whose catch phrase was " Hello cheeky-face!

A regular character in the fourth series, and played by Marsden, was Judy Coolibar, an aggressive Australian who managed to find some kind of sexist insult in everything the male characters said.

The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and announcer Douglas Smith, with music by the Fraser Hayes Four and Paul Fenoulhet and the Hornblowers ( Edwin Braden replaced Fenoulhet from episode 7 of Series 1 ).

The cast was Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden and Smith, with music by the Max Harris Group.

The cast was Williams, Paddick, Marsden, Pertwee and Smith, with music by the Fraser Hayes Four and Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers.

The cast was Horne, Williams, Paddick, Marsden and Smith, with music by the Max Harris Group.

It was presented by Leslie Phillips and included new interviews with Betty Marsden and Barry Took, period interviews with Kenneth Horne, and rare excerpts from surviving wartime episodes of Much Binding in the Marsh.

Betty Marsden ( 24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998 ) was an English comedy actress.

Former Club President Peter Marsden was appointed Chairman soon after.

The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Ron Moody, Stanley Unwin ( for the first episode only ), announcer Douglas Smith with music by Patricia Lancaster, the Malcolm Mitchell Trio and the BBC Revue Orchestra.

In July 1987, Marsden and CFNY general manager Bill Hutton hired Don Berns as the new program director.

Marsden did not reach the heights of the Premiership until he was 30 when he was brought to Southampton by then manager Dave Jones.

Marsden is the home of Mikron Theatre Company, the worlds only professional theatre company to tour by Narrowboat.

* Northport Ltd, the port-operating company for Marsden Point, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Marsden's mother, Linda Marsden, is a former fashion model, and his father, Myles Marsden, is a former Premier danseur of the Yugoslav National Ballet and Founder of the first regional ballet company in New England called State Ballet of Rhode Island .< ref >

The company owns and operates the hydroelectric generating stations on the Waikato River as well as geothermal plants in the Taupo area, the combined cycle Southdown plant in south Auckland and the largely unused plant ( Marsden A and Marsden B ) at Marsden Point near Whangarei.

The company built the twin-track South Shields, Marsden, and Whitburn Colliery Railway, leaving the North Eastern Railway line at, South Shields and travelling to Marsden via two intermediate stations.

The company built a new Marsden village, located between the Lighthouse Quarries and Whitburn Colliery.

It starred Roy Marsden and Jill Meager and ran for six half-hour episodes.

Suffragette and feminist campaigner Dora Marsden spent the last 25 years of her life being cared for in Dumfries after her psychological breakdown.

Operating from two bays of Marsden Fire Station, the volunteer team provides rescue cover for surrounding moorland areas, and also assists West Yorkshire Police with searches for missing people.

In 2010 Marsden gained Walkers are Welcome status in recognition of its well maintained footpaths, facilities and information for walkers and ramblers.

Marsden is popular as a location for television and film productions.

* John Marsden ( writer ) ( born 1950 ), Australian writer of books for children and young adults

Similar stories and nicknames exist for the neighbouring villages of Golcar (" Lillies "), Marsden (" Cuckoos ") and Linthwaite (" Leadboilers ").

* Paul Marsden ( b. 1968 ), former Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham 1997 to 2005, was born in Frodsham.

One of those whose house was raided was Adrian Marsden, who later became a councillor for the British National Party ( BNP ).

Thus, for example, " Diwali " is the name not of a song, but of a riddim created by Lenky Marsden, subsequently used as the basis for several songs, such as Sean Paul's " Get Busy " and Bounty Killer's " Sufferer.

They also starred in an early 1965 film called Ferry Cross the Mersey ( sometimes referred to as " Gerry and the Pacemakers ' version of A Hard Day's Night "), for which Marsden wrote much of the soundtrack.

In 1809 the Reverend Samuel Marsden advertised in England for donations to help found a ' Lending Library for the general benefit of the inhabitants of New South Wales '.