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Plans in the early 2000s to redevelop the Elephant and Castle included turning the roundabout into a peninsula and moving the Michael Faraday Memorial 400 metres south-east to the Walworth Road, where it would stand next to the Cuming Museum and possibly become part of a proposed science museum. These plans were shelved as the regeneration of ...
Road to Hell is a 2008 action-fantasy film directed by Albert Pyun. It was inspired by Walter Hill's Streets of Fire and began shooting that same year in June at Los Angeles. Pyun states that the genesis of Road to Hell was when he and Paré attended a film festival in Spain. [6]
Air pollution from road traffic in Elephant and Castle has significantly improved in recent years. In 2015, Elephant and Castle exceeded the UK government legal limit on Nitrogen Dioxide, with the local borough recording an annual mean concentration of 41 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m^3). In 2017, this figure was 34μg/m^3, below the legal ...
Wag McDonald fled to Canada to avoid arrest after the Epsom Road Battle in 1921. From there he moved to Los Angeles, where he became a bodyguard to Charlie Chaplin and later to Jack Dragna, the city’s Mafia boss. The McDonald brothers were prominent leaders of the Elephant and Castle gang between the two World Wars.
The north end of the "Newington Butts" section of the A3 terminates at a roundabout of the Elephant and Castle junction, where the Elizabethan theatre stood.. Newington Butts is a former hamlet, now an area of the London Borough of Southwark, London, England, that gives its name to a segment of the A3 road running south-west from the Elephant and Castle junction.
The elephant-and-castle imagery depicts an elephant with a stylised Howdah on its back. That imagery is part of the 'branding' of the Royal African Company, a mercantile company founded in 1660 to exploit trade along the west coast of Africa ('The Gold Coast'), especially in gold and slaves, but also in ivory. Guinea coins dating from the reign ...
The location chosen was at Elephant and Castle, a prominent position near the River Thames in South London, partly because it was thought to be the site of the burning of the Southwark Martyrs. The building, with a 6,000-seat auditorium, designed by William Willmer Pocock , was finished in 1861 and dedicated on 18 March. [ 8 ]
The Guardian filmed guerrilla gardeners temporarily retreating to a Perronet House flat after an encounter with police while gardening on the Elephant and Castle north roundabout. See the video here The book On Guerrilla Gardening by Richard Reynolds (Bloomsbury 2008) includes numerous photos and references to Perronet House and the building ...