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Stratford Old Town railway station was a railway station that served the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England.On the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway, the station was built in 1873, adjacent to the Old Town district, south of the town centre.
Labour Party MP and actor Andrew Faulds lived in Old Town, Stratford, until his death in 2000, aged 77; Actress and animator Sarah Ann Kennedy who grew up in Stratford. She is the voice of Miss Rabbit in Peppa Pig and Nanny Plum in Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom. She is also responsible for the creation of Crapston Villas, an animated soap on ...
In the mid-19th century the West Ham Local Board of Health had met at Rokeby House in Broadway. [2] [3] Following a rapid growth in the local population caused by industrial expansion, [4] civic leaders decided to procure purpose-built council offices: the site chosen for the new building was a plot of open land on the corner of Broadway and West Ham Lane.
Historic map from 1902. The route of the Historic Spine can be seen from Shakespeare's Birthplace (A) to The Holy Trinity Church (B) Following Stratford's expansion from a village into a town in the early 12th century, the route linking the new town to the Holy Trinity Church in Old Town became the location for many of the towns earliest and most important buildings.
Between 1873 and 1952, Stratford-upon-Avon was also served by Stratford Old Town railway station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJR). [6] A new parkway station was opened to the north of the town next to the A46 road on 19 May 2013. It was proposed that building the station would ease congestion, as passengers from ...
The Old Town Hall in Stratford Broadway Designed by Lewis Angell and John Giles in the Italianate style with a 100-foot (30-metre) tall domed tower, Stratford Town Hall opened in 1869 as the public offices for the West Ham Local board of health .
Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.It is situated on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River.The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, and the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The ten mile line took some time to construct due to difficulty in raising money, and before it opened the company changed its name to the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway (ST&MJR), by the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. ccix) of 10 August 1882.