Kevin Horlock ( born November 1, 1972 in Erith, Kent ) is an English born Northern Irish football player, currently player / Reserve Team manager of Needham Market.

The world amateur premiere was performed at the Erith Playhouse in Erith, Kent, in June 1977, and was attended by members of the London production team.

Erith was one of these villages, and has a Saxon name, thought to have been derived from a word meaning ` muddy harbour ' or ` gravelly landing place '.

The early settlement was based around this church, meaning that the centre of Erith was once west of its current location.

In 1315, a Royal Charter was granted for a market to be held in Erith every Thursday.

Erith owes its existence to the Thames and was, until the 1850s, essentially a small riverside port, given prominence by King Henry VIII's decision to open a naval dockyard in the town.

At that time, and until the 19th Century, Erith was a popular anchorage.

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the Erith Municipal Borough was abolished and its area transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Bexley.

Erith Iron Works was established in 1864 in Anchor Bay by William Anderson.

From 1881 Erith was home to a large cable works founded by William Callender.

During the First World War Erith was an extremely important area for the manufacture of guns and ammunition, largely due to the presence of the large Vickers works in the Fraser Road area.

A new swimming pool was recently built adjoining the sports centre and the David Ives Stadium, which is home to Bexley Athletic Club and Erith Town F. C.

It was then cut in two by the building of the A2016 a 4 lane dual carriageway by-pass of the Woolwich to Erith section of the A206 though on leaving Woolwich only got as far as the industrial part of lower Belvedere ( the extension to Erith was opened in 1999 ).

Erith was a port on the River Thames until the 17th century ; the opening of the sewage works at nearby Crossness in the late 19th century turned it into an industrial town.

The London Borough of Bexley was formed in 1965, under the London Government Act 1963 from the Municipal Boroughs of Bexley and Erith ; Crayford Urban District: and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District.

After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.

Thamesmead, the " new town " built on what was the Erith Marshes, extends into the Borough: both Thamesmead North and South are located here.

The walk begins at Erith on the south bank of the River Thames and passes clockwise through Crayford, Petts Wood, Coulsdon, Kingston upon Thames, Uxbridge, Elstree, Cockfosters, Chingford and Upminster Bridge before ending at Purfleet, almost directly across the Thames from its starting point.

In the early mornings a night bus service operates called the N89 which runs between Trafalgar Square and Erith ; The N89 has a frequency of every 30 minutes.

The 428 bus contracted by TfL and operated by Arriva runs between Bluewater Shopping Centre and Erith Town Centre ; The 428 has a frequency of 15 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime and at evening and Sundays the 428 has a frequency of 30 minutes.

In the early mornings a night bus service operates called the N89 which runs between Trafalgar Square and Erith ; The N89 operates to a frequency of every 30 minutes.

Since the late 1990s Erith has been undergoing significant changes with the Erith Western Thames Gateway project being the culmination of a number of years of regeneration.

The annual Erith Riverside Festival has been held for a number of years in Riverside Gardens alongside the Thames.

* St John the Baptist Church-nearly a thousand years old, in Erith

During the 1980s he was also appointed by Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister, to renovate the interiors of 10 Downing Street, restored 40 years previously by Raymond Erith, Terry's teacher, after war damage.

There was apparently a mutual attraction between Loial and Erith ; before Rand's party left the stedding Erith gave Loial a flower, which he pressed inside one of his books.

Belvedere formed part of the Municipal Borough of Erith before 1965.

He then moved to the Erith Observer newspaper in Kent and at the same time appeared briefly on BBC Radio Medway, before joining the staff of BBC Radio Solent in October 1971 as a presenter of music programmes ( including the weekly pop show Beat ' n Track ) and news reader.

On its way from Erith to Old Bexley, the " London LOOP " walk follows the River Cray across the Crayford Marshes and through the town centre.

Recently, these shopping centres have been refaced and extended to provide new social housing and better quality shops to complement the W. M. Morrison's supermarket to the east of town in an attempt to make Erith more attractive and welcoming.

Some fairly new riverside apartment blocks, just east of Erith town centre and facing the pier

The area under consideration in the Erith Western Gateway is a large, underused area of the town centre.

Erith railway station is only a short walk from the town centre.

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.

After the Norman Conquest in 1066 the area of Lesnes, close to the town of Erith passed into the possession of Bishop Odo and is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.

Erith was a local government district in north west Kent from 1894 to 1965 around the town of Erith.

Erith first met Rand al ' Thor and Loial when they passed through stedding Tsofu in pursuit of Padan Fain and the Horn of Valere.

Weston attended Erith Secondary School, and was spotted by a Millwall scout when playing for the school team and subsequently joined Millwall's youth academy.

He was elected as the Conservative MP for Erith and Crayford at the 1983 general election when he defeated James Wellbeloved who had defected from the Labour Party to the new Social Democratic Party in 1981.

Bexleyheath has drawn a lot of custom to match the expansion in retail space from residents of towns in the borough, particularly from Erith and Thamesmead which have expanded in size with development along the River Thames.

Chislehurst is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Crystal Palace, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.

The park is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Chislehurst, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.

Erith is a district of southeast London on the River Thames.

The regeneration of the area falls within the remit of the Thames Gateway project, with Erith being a key focus for Bexley Council as its only population centre on the River Thames.

Erith is home to the longest pier in London, on the River Thames.

The ridge of higher ground in South London crosses the Borough from its high point of Shooters Hill, on the boundary with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, to end above the River Thames at Belvedere, where the land drops down to the old port of Erith.

The land falls away to the north of the high ground, across the Erith Marshes to the River Thames, which here makes a loop to the north at Crossness.

The Borough owns and maintains over one hundred parks and open spaces, large and small ; and there is still a part of the Erith Marshes bordering the River Thames.

Control of ship traffic on the Thames within the Port is orchestrated from two Port Control centres-one at the Thames Barrier ( the Thames Barrier Navigation Centre ) in Woolwich, for reaches upstream of Erith, and the other at Gravesend ( the main Port Control ) for reaches downstream of Erith.

The scheme involved major pumping stations at Deptford ( 1864 ) and at Crossness ( 1865 ) on the Erith marshes, both on the south side of the Thames, and at Abbey Mills ( in the River Lea valley, 1868 ) and on the Chelsea Embankment ( close to Grosvenor Bridge ; 1875 ), north of the river.

Celia Fiennes, who in 1697 proceeded out of London along the Dover Road, wrote in her diary of stopping at " Shuttershill, on top of which hill you see a vast prospect ... some lands clothed with trees, others with grass and flowers, gardens, orchards, with all sorts of herbage and tillage, with severall little towns all by the river, Erith, Leigh, Woolwich etc., quite up to London, Greenwich, Deptford, Black Wall, the Thames twisting and turning it self up and down bearing severall vessells and men of warre on it ".