Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Swan Inn is a Grade II listed former public house on the High Street (dating back to the 16th century [1] in Ruislip, Middlesex. It then became a branch of the Café Rouge restaurant chain but this closed at the end of 2022. It has recently been bought by a new deveoper and something new should open there by the end of 2023.
The reservoir became a popular location for water-skiing, and televised championships were often held there. [7] One of the Ruislip Water Ski Club's founding members was the former Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee. [8] Ruislip Sailing Club was based at the lido, using the Graduate and Solo dinghy types. In the 1970s, the reservoir water level was ...
Water's Edge was acquired by Harendra Singh in 2008. [8] [18] The restaurant closed in 2015 after its owner was indicted for bribery and fraud charges. [23]Singh was charged with bribing a Town of Oyster Bay official and filing fraudulent receipts from vendors to inflate the value of Water's Edge to obtain $900,000 in disaster relief funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after ...
Ruislip Golf Course, on Ickenham Road, was opened in 1922, and is operated by a private company on behalf of the London Borough of Hillingdon. [53] Ruislip is also the home of Eastcote Hockey Club, based at Kings College playing fields. The club was originally based in Eastcote, from where it took its name, but moved to the present location in ...
The Ruislip Lido Railway is a 12 in (305 mm) gauge miniature railway around Ruislip Lido in Ruislip, 14 miles (22.5 km) north-west of central London.Running from the main station at Woody Bay by the lido's beach, on a 1.02-mile (1.64 km) track around the reservoir, the railway passes through Ruislip Woods to Willow Lawn station and tea room near the lido's car parks.
McSorley's Old Ale House is the oldest Irish saloon in New York City. [1] Opened in the mid-19th century at 15 East 7th Street, in what is now the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, it was one of the last of the "Men Only" pubs, admitting women only after legally being forced to do so in 1970.
The original images are in churches as a face peering through or made of leaves and petals; this character is the Will of the Wisp, the Jack of the Green. Some pub signs will show the green man as he appears in English traditional sword dances (in green hats). The Green Man is not the same character as Robin Hood, although the two may be linked.
Ruislip-Northwood was an urban district in west Middlesex, England, from 1904 to 1965. [1] From its inception Ruislip-Northwood fell within the Metropolitan Police District and from 1933 it was part of the London Passenger Transport Area .