Battersea
Proper noun
Meaning
Battersea
A suburban area in the borough of Wandsworth, London (OS grid ref TQ2776).
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As "Philip Edward Thomas poet-soldier" he is commemorated, alongside "Reginald Townsend Thomas actor-soldier died 1918", who is buried at the spot, and other family members, at the North East Surrey (Old Battersea) Cemetery.
Garry Martinez, long-time OFW leader and pastoral care head of the All Saint Battersea Filipino Community, added that most of our countrymen are working in the service sector.
Here is Thomas Griffin, who, in 1899, was a young laborer at a sugar refinery in Battersea; following an explosion, he ran into a steam-filled room, thinking a friend was inside, and was scalded to death.
Needham, Volume 4, Part 2, 560. Horizontal windmills were built, in small numbers, in Europe during the 18th and nineteenth centuries, for example Fowler's Mill at Battersea in London, and Hooper's Mill at Margate in Kent.
Theater Lou Stein's adaptation of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" was performed at the Battersea theatre.
The Royal Academy of Dance was established in 1920 and moved to 36 Battersea Square in 1972.