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William Mead Homes is really a public housing development situated in Chinatown, an area from the town of La. Nicknamed “Dogtown” due to its closeness towards the historic Ann Street Pet Shelter whose canine residents might be heard for blocks around, it’s run by the Housing Authority from the Town of La.

The website was funded using the federal Housing Act of 1937. The proposal to construct the website was rejected in December 1940 due to high land purchase costs (averaging $23,900 per acre, when other developments were as little as $2400). 8 acres (3.2 ha) was of the Consolidated Steel Corporation. The rest of the property was on land bequeathed by William Mead, an earlier La politician.

The land cost was reduced to $20,000 an acre by The month of january 1941, but did not proceed until a federally-backed U . s . States Housing Authority loan signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt was handed on March 12, 1941.

It had been built-in 1941-1942 and possesses 449 units in 24 structures, replacing roughly 100 substandard dwellings on the website. It occupies 15.2 acres (6.2 ha) and it was built through the Herbert M. Baruch Corporation for $1.two million. David Gebhard and Robert Winter condition the facts “slightly suggest the late 1930s Moderne.”

Residency within the project was restricted to low-earnings Americans who’d resided in La for more than a year. It had been also a part of a “Color negro quota” system, which mandated no more than 7 % black occupancy. This altered to fifteenPercent in The month of january 1943, and it was completely removed in This summer 1943 after pressure and protests through the National Urban League, California Bald eagle, La Sentinel, NAACP, and also the CIO union. The event was opened up for war workers in March 1943.

Area of the project was built with an oil refinery along with a hazardous waste dump. In 1994, cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons put together at levels 19 occasions the safe level following testing through the California Department of Toxins Control. Playgrounds and gardening spaces were closed, along with a $1.5 million soil removal and cleanup project was needed in 2000. The refinery was run by Amalgamated Oil Company, that was later purchased by Texaco. The waste dump was run by Witco Corporation, now area of the Chemtura Corporation. At that time, the work was the place to find 1400 residents, many Latino and Vietnamese. The Housing Authority sued ChevronTexaco for that cleanup costs in April 2003.

In 1992, the populace was 71 percent Latino, 22 percent Asian, 4 % African-American and 1 % Caucasian, having a median monthly family earnings of $840.

Several innovative welfare-to-work programs happened, like the Jobs-Plus program, that was at William Mead and Imperial Courts from 1996 to 2002.

In 1856 the Kids of Charitable organization of St. Vincent de Paul founded the city’s first orphanage, Institucion Caratitiva, within the former residence of the former mayor, Benjamin Davis Wilson. An order then opened up the la Infirmary in 1858. In 1870 they moved the infirmary to a different structure built-in what grew to become Dogtown at Naud and Ann Street (named following the orphanage’s supervisor, Sister Ann Gillen). Rail showed up a couple of years later and all of a sudden the place appeared under well suited for an infirmary and also the decision is made to transfer. Between 1883 and ’86 they offered a lot of the New Depot Tract and Infirmary Tract to boost money for any new house. In 1891, the siblings moved their operations to Boyle Heights

William Mead Homes is situated inside the Chinatown neighborhood of La. The housing complex is alongside two government facilities, the dual Towers Correctional Facility and also the LADWP Primary Street Center. Nearby neighborhoods: Towards the south is Chinatown, towards the northeast is Cypress Park, towards the east is Lincoln subsequently Heights, towards the southwest is Boyle Heights, and also to free airline is Downtown La.

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Send is really a village and civil parish within the Guildford borough from the British county of Surrey. Send acquired its name throughout the Great Vowel Shift[dubious – discuss] in the word sand, that was extracted at various periods before the 1990s for construction along with other purposes at pits within the borders from the parish. Northern Send reaches the southern-eastern fringe of the Bagshot Formation.

Send is buffered by Metropolitan Eco-friendly Belt using their company villages and towns aside from the Grove Heath neighbourhood of Ripley. A rural gang of the village adjoins the forest Wey including Cartbridge and Send Marsh – this land continues to be drained and also the river tamed by sluices, the Broadmead Cut and also the Wey Navigation. Most the built-up areas won’t be inside an section of ton risk. Between your river and also the navigation, within the far north from the parish, would be the Papercourt and Broad Mead SSSIs.

Send seems in Domesday Book of 1086 as Sande. It had been held by Rainald (Reginald) from Alvred de Merleburgh (Marlborough). Its Domesday assets were: 20 hides 1 church, 10 ploughs, 2 mills worth £1 3s 6d, 5 fisheries worth 4s 6d, 84 acres (34 ha) of field, woodland for 160 hogs. It had been headed by 41 households[clarification needed] coupled with furthermore 15 serfs, although whether or not they had households or otherwise is uncertain. It made £15 10s 0d each year to the overlords. Within this situation the manorial lords were simply recorded as Herbert Reginald boy of Erchenbald and Walter, apparently Anglo-Saxon. It had been held during the time of the Norman Conquest by Karli of Norton.

The parish saw just a little-known skirmish. On 14 June 1497 the very first Cornish Rebellion premiered against Henry VII the rebels were marching from Cornwall to Kent unbeknown towards the King, after passing Guildford they’d a skirmish with a few of the outposted royal troops on the highway from Guildford to London. The troops fell back or were outmanoeuvred, for they’d lost the rebels around the 16th and were searching on their behalf around the Portsmouth Road again near Kingston once they were really around the border of Kent. Old maps mark where the road crosses the stream which joins the Wey near Send as St. Thomas’s Waterings.

Ripley was, during the time of the Domesday Book, a town of Send. In 1878 Ripley acquired its very own parish. The first official record, like a Patent Roll, revealing its manor’s existence is within 1279. Development in ambition from the local nobility along with a sizable enough population brought to the initial place of worship being built at Ripley, to become chapelry to St Mary the Virgin, round the year 1160.

Brickfields were coded in the south of Send through the 1870s, and ongoing to become labored until a minimum of 1911.

The Leese baronets “of Sendholme in Submit the County of Surrey”, who resided in the large house of this name within the village, bore a title produced in 1908 for Frederick Leese, Liberal Person in Parliament for Accrington from 1892 to 1910. The 3rd Baronet would be a Lieutenant-General within the Coldstream Pads and offered as Commander-in-Chief from the Allied Land Forces in South-East Asia from 1944 to 1945 so that as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief from the Eastern Command from 1945 to 1946.

Send was the bottom of the defunct 1950s F1 and sports vehicle constructor Connaught Engineering.

Send is really a gently spread village centred 23 miles (37 km) south-west from Charing Mix and 6 miles (9.7 km) south-west of junction 10 from the M25 and it has a developed clustered center around the old span of the Portsmouth Road which bisects the greatest settled area of the village, Burntcommon, that is on the beginning of rise from the London Clay. This road was relieved by the making of a six-lane bypass, area of the A3 trunk road, which now forms the lengthy south-east border from the village. Another principle road may be the A247 Woking to West Clandon road which goes through the village from north to south.

The parish is bounded towards the west and a part of its northern side through the River Wey, that is controlled by sluices and it has been expanded in capacity with a navigable funnel running alongside, the Wey Navigation.

The closest railway stations are in West Clandon, around the New Guildford Line, and Woking, around the The West Primary Line, that provides frequent semi-fast and fast services to London instead of stopping services.

Send is on the lightly rising patch of Bagshot Sand, with Cartbridge, like Ripley, on sand and gravel from the lower Wey Valley a southern area of the parish is on generally greater still London Clay.

Elevations vary from 49 m (161 ft) Above Ordnance Datum within the south to 22 m (72 ft) in the far northern border around the Wey Navigation.

Cartbridge is really a mostly amorphous locality that covers the western finish from the village’s primary street, particularly where it turns towards the north towards Woking.

The neighbourhood is contiguous using the clustered, built-up estates of Boughton Court Avenue and also the Portsmouth Road developing Burntcommon. For census analyses from the largest neighbourhoods in Surrey, in 2001 the county council opted to think about Burntcommon like a non-notable locality jointly with Send Marsh. About this basis its population in the Uk Census 2001 was nearly half from the village in general, at 1,937.

Send Marsh has Send’s Grade II listed late 17th century manor house through the village eco-friendly. It’s built of brown brick in British bond. The town has one public house, known as the Saddlers Arms, but no shops or church.

Abnormally for Guildford schools it is inside the admission priority section of Guildford’s George Abbot School most many the limitations haven’t up to now excluded so that it is substituted with for example closer regions of north-western Guildford.

Burntcommon is really a locality of Send that directly adjoins Send Marsh. Its nearest town is Woking, which lies roughly 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north-west.

The little Send Surgery on Send Road near the Church Rooms closed in 2003 and reopened on Send Barns Lane because the modern Villages Medical Center serving 7,000 individuals Send, Ripley and also the surrounding villages. That old surgical treatment is now occupied with a beauty treatment business. That Old Hall, on Send Marsh Road, has become a residential care home.

The primary route with the community runs NE/SW, the A247 Send Road, along that are scattered the businesses, companies and facilities.

Included in this are the publish office, a takeaway, diving shop/center, a hearth outlet, a completely independent funerals firm, a hairdressers, a microscope and calculating devices manufacturer, Ghost Production Studios, based in the Old Riding Stables on Send Hill, have labored with several well-known clients, including Paul Connelly, Ben Lovejoy, Sue Macmillan, Social, Satellite Condition, Go West, Tony Hadley, Heat Wave, Charlie Morgan, Mark Brizickey, Adam Wakeman, Victoria Beckham, Elton John, and Draven.

Send includes a entertainment ground, the Lancaster Hall and also the Church Rooms. There’s two pubs within the village: The Brand New Inn in Cartbridge, next to the Wey Navigation and also the Saddlers Arms in Send Marsh.

Send National School, off Send Hill, was built-in 1834 and enlarged in 1892. Once the school closed, your building was transformed into residential use. It’s now referred to as Old-fashioned.

Send Church of England Central School was built-in 1939 but, with war imminent, its opening was delayed until 1941 in situation your building was needed for military use. Throughout the planning process questions were elevated in the home of Commons concerning the provision of sufficient drainage. Initially created like a school, it had been built on the large stretch of land with space for facilities together with a light engineering workshop, a woodworking room, a domestic science room along with a gymnasium, additionally to some vast arena. With time it grew to become referred to as St Bede’s and, from 1972, was relaunched like a junior high school. Facilities increased to incorporate two outside pools.

Send Church of England (Foundation) First School was built-in 1958.

Send’s two schools created the Federation of Send Church of England Schools on 29 March 2012.

Under its final title, St Bede’s Church of England (Aided) Junior School structures were destroyed in Summer time 2017 along with a substitute building for 7- to 11-year-olds was erected around the Send First School site on Send Barns Lane.

Send parish church is devoted to St Mary the Virgin and dates from around 1220. The nave was reconstructed and also the tower put in around 1485. New kitchen and toilet facilities were finished in 2002. A You are able to stone path was laid within the churchyard in 2003. The church is really a Grade II* listed building and it is the earliest building still being used in Send. In The month of january 2008 the church was voted Customer/Leisure Attraction of the season within the Guildford Existence with Style awards, attracting 75% from the votes and beating the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley, Watts Gallery, Guildford Guides and Surrey Hillsides Llamas. In October 2008 the church received the Mayor of Guildford’s Award for Access.

St William of You are able to (RC) church closed in 2007.

Send Evangelical Church opened up in May 1974 while using former Congregational chapel in Cartbridge, built-in 1875.

Send has three such memorials.

A Celtic-style stone mix near the Church Rooms on Send Road increases above these inscriptions:

“1914-1918 In memory from the men of the village who in the cod gave their lives their country. Faithful unto dying.”

What they are called from the fallen are:

A brick memorial mounted having a wrought iron “1914 1918” within the entertainment ground near a corner of Send Road and Sandy Lane bears the language: “This entertainment ground was purchased by public subscription and it was opened up on 1 June 1920 for the advantages of the occupants of Send like a memorial towards the mariners and soldiers who fell as well as in grateful recognition of individuals within the village who required part within the Great War of 1914-1918. Trustees: S. S. Boorman, A. H. Lancaster, J. A. Shirer, W. M. Grant, F. W. Morgan Johnson, W. G. Whitbourn.”

A stone tablet around the north wall from the nave within the parish church bears this inscription: “The peal of six bells was hung like a memorial to individuals of the parish who died in 2 world wars so that as a thank offering for victory.” What they are called listed overlap with around the Celtic-mix memorial but with the help of five people “wiped out by enemy action”: V. Bowers, H. C. Parsons, H. E. Privett, M. J. Privett and V. Privett. People from the Privett family were wiped out on 21 August 1944 through the explosion of the V1 flying explosive device which arrived on their own home at Burnt Common Cottages.

The Uk Census 2011 reported Send’s population to become 4,245, a rise of 107 because the 2001 census. The amount of households was 1,665, a rise of 42 because the 2001 census.

From the accommodation in the area[clarification needed], 28% was made up of detached houses, and 22.6% was made up of apartments.text=is this simply based on figures of dwellings, or weighted by any means by size?

The proportion of homes within the civil parish who owned their house outright comes even close to the neighborhood average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their house having a loan comes even close to the neighborhood average of 32.5%. The remaining % consists of rented dwellings (along with a negligible % of homes living rent-free).

High street shops provides some professional jobs and technical companies, the colleges and nearby prison form the majority of the government merit services other jobs existing within the parish include manufacturing, agriculture and food and leisure-related groups of employment. Nevertheless, the village demographically includes a high proportion of pros and with regards to these, it belongs to the London Commuter Belt, using the Town of London to be the primary destination by train from Woking. The closest entertainment and enormous retail premises have been in Woking. An old landfill in Send is really a 20 hectare plantation of short rotation coppice willow.

Jobs from the 2,114 workers between 16 and 74 were damaged lower within the 2011 census the following:

Data for 1801-1961 can be obtained at Britain Over Time. Losing Ripley in 1878 ecclesiastically as well as in 1933 like a secular administrative unit (civil parish) symbolized nearly half from the land part of the village.

The Send Barns Orchestra, conducted by Jeremy Gilbert, are credited around the 1977 Anthony Phillips album The Other poultry and also the Ghost, large areas of that have been recorded at his home in Send.

In 1969, a scene for that Telling Bone episode of Catweazle, featuring Geoffrey Bayldon, filmed two backgrounds in Send: Church Lane while using lych gate and Send Parish Church and 1 Heath Farm Cottages, Tannery Lane as “Sam’s Cottage”. “Mike Woodyard” was performed by Neil McCarthy. In 1999, scenes for that Mrs Bradley Mysteries, starring Dame Diana Rigg and Neil Dudgeon, were filmed within the churchyard.

In April 2009, scenes for any BBC Drama manufacture of Jane Austen’s “Emma”, adapted by Sandy Welch and starring Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Jonny Lee Miller, Blake Ritson, Dan Fredenburgh, Tamsin Greig and Rupert Evans, were filmed around Send Parish Church.

In August 2012, Willow Drive was utilized to film scenes for Cuban Rage, starring Nick Frost.

Counterintuitively now named following the village is HMP Send, a women’s prison on the website of the former isolation hospital. Following parish area decrease in the south the jail has become in southeast the parish of Ripley encircled by farmland and woodland.

Send’s local football team is Send U . s .. There’s sailing on Papercourt Lake, which is a member of Papercourt Sailing Club. There’s fishing around the River Wey as well as in the encompassing sandpits.

The Concorde Cricket Club, formerly the British Aerospace Cricket Club, relies at Sendholme on Potters Lane. Sendholme was the house of William Hargreaves Leese, who performed for that Marylebone Cricket Club within the late 1800s.

Lieutenant-General William Evelyn Colonel from the 29th Feet within the British Army and Person in Parliament for Helston (1767-74), a boy of Mister John Evelyn of Wotton, established his home at Send Grove, Church Lane, and that he organized the causes. On his dying, in 1783, you purchased it , by Admiral Mister Francis William Drake, Governor of Newfoundland (1750-1752), second in command to Rodney in the victory of 1782 over De Grasse. As Rear-Admiral, Drake travelled his flag on HMS Victory from 26 September to 29 December 1780.

Flight Lieutenant Robin R Skene, among the first people from the Royal Flying Corps, was hidden within the churchyard after crashing in the Bleriot monoplane soon after take-removed from Netheravon, Wiltshire, in 1914 on 12 August on the way to Dover and France at the beginning of ww 1. He and auto technician R. Barlow were the very first people from the Royal Flying Corps to die on active duty and one of the primary British casualties from the war.Following flooding within the east of Send Marsh in 2000, when 16 qualities were flooded to some depth of 1m, causing £600,000 of harm, a 5-month Atmosphere Agency (EA) plan costing £400,000 started in Feb 2007 to lessen the danger in the East Clandon stream. The stream was diverted within the 1870s for brick-making and may revert to the original course when flooded. Shown through the relatively couple of qualities affected, just about all built-up areas within the parish aren’t susceptible to ton risk based on EA data.

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Michael Mead (born 4 June 1956) is really a professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer.

Michael Mead, born in Croydon, England, spent his early years going with his family go to schools overseas. At 18, completed with school and unclear about what he wanted to complete professionally, Michael made the decision to test his hands at accounting. After rapidly creating that possibly the final factor he wanted ended up being to spend the remainder of his existence auditing, Michael signed up for an instructor training class in a local dance studio, and it was offered employment for only six several weeks of dance training.

The lust for travel drilled into Michael in the early years soon required hold, ultimately leading him to California, where he opened up Londance, now among the top competitive dance studios within the U.S., in Costa Mesa, California. Though Michael offered his possession be part of 1989 to be able to focus on the serious quest for an aggressive dance career, he is constantly on the educate there (and also at Champion Ballroom Academy in North Park) even today.

Michael created an expert partnership with Toni Redpath and created a unique style that ultimately brought these to setting an archive by winning outdoors Titles four years consecutively (undefeated throughout) before retiring from competition in 2002. On September 28, 2000, Toni and Michael were married around the island of Kauai. Presently the pair are located in North Park and coach most of the U.S. top competitive couples, in addition to knowing for competitions and traveling the planet doing shows.

Michael and Toni make numerous appearances on television and movie. Noticably TV credits are as choreographers on FOX Which Means You Think You Are Able To Dance, featured dancers and champions on PBS America’s Ballroom Challenge and Championship Ballroom Dancing, as well as in the feature film Dance beside me.