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ROWTON HOUSES

Rowton houses or 'poor men's hotels' were dwelling-houses for unmarried working men in London, the first was erected in Vauxhall in 1892 by Lord Rowton, and accommodated 484 persons. This was so successful that a company - Rowton Houses Ltd - was formed and five other houses subsequently established - in Calthorpe Street in 1896, Newington Butts in 1897, Hammersmith Road in 1899, Fieldgate Street in 1902 and in Camden Town in 1905. The business was conducted on strictly commercial lines with customers charged for a bed and the use of public rooms.
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VAUXHALL

Vauxhall (known in Europe as Opel) are a British motor car manufacturing firm (now owned by General Motors) which was established at London in 1903. Vauxhall is primarily concerned with the production of affordable, everyday domestic motor cars and vans.
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VAUXHALL ASTRA

The Vauxhall Astra is a range of compact sized domestic motor cars produced in sport hatch, five-door hatch and five door estate models, with various engine sizes of 1.4 litres, 1.7 litres, 1.8 litres, 1.9 litres, 2.0 litres and 2.2 litres all with a five-speed gear box, some with a diesel engine and some petrol powered. In all there are over 380 different variations of the Vauxhall Astra, the popular Astra Club models with a petrol engine typically reach 60 mph from still in about 10.7 seconds and achieve in the region of 33 mpg.
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VAUXHALL VECTRA

The Vauxhall Vectra is a series of four-door saloon and five-door hatchback family cars produced in various engine sizes of between 1.6 and 2.6 litres providing top speeds of between 120 and 148 mph, most models achieving a top speed in the region of 121 mph.
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EDWARD SOMERSET

Edward Somerset was an English engineer and inventor. He was born in 1601 and died in 1667. He was the second Marquis of Worcester and later Earl of Glamorgan and Earl and Marquis of Worcester. He invented the steam-engine and erected water works at Vauxhall.
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MACARONI

The Macaroni were a group of 18th century dandies who from 1770 to 1775 led the fashion, and infuriated the church. They imitated extravagant Continental fashions - having derived their fashion in Italy - and were distinguished by wearing an immense knot of artificial hair, a very small cocked hat, jacket, waist-coat, and small clothes all worn very tight against the body and carrying a long walking-stick ornamented with tassels. The Macaronis were infamous for their gambling, drinking and duelling and around 1773 were described as the curse of Vauxhall Gardens.
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GLOBAL PRODUCT

A global product is a product that is marketed throughout the world with the same brand name, such as Coca Cola, Guinness, Levi, and McDonalds. The advantage of a global product is that it usually enables an advertisement or image to be used worldwide. However, one drawback is that some advertising slogans do not travel well. For example, things come alive with Pepsi, when translated into Chinese, led the populace to believe that their ancestors would be brought back from the dead; the Vauxhall Nova encountered similar problems in Spain, where Nova means no go!
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GMV

GMV is an abbreviation for General Motors Vauxhall
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VAUXHALL

Vauxhall was a famous and fashionable public garden in Lambeth, London. The gardens were opened in 1660, and called New Spring Gardens and closed in 1859. Today, Vauxhall is a district of London on the Surrey side of the Thames, west and south-west of Kennington Oval. It was originally known as Faukes-hall, or Fulke's Hall, after a Norman knight, Fulke de Breaute, who owned the manor in the time of King John..
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THAMES EMBANKMENT

The Thames Embankment is a wall of granite, with a plane-tree bordered footway, built in three sections along the banks of the river Thames in London between 1864 and 1874. The embankment was begun by the metropolitan board of works with the Victoria embankment on the north side of the river between Blackfriars and Westminster and completed in 1870. Extending for a little over 2 km it includes a granite wall about 2.5 meters thick, with foundations 5 meters to 9 meters below low-water mark, landing stages, a roadway about 30 meters wide, footway and public gardens. Under the footway are a low-level sewer, water and gas mains and telephone cables. Under the roadway runs the Underground railway.
The Albert Embankment, on the side of the river Thames, between Westminster Bridge and Vauxhall was constructed on similar lines between 1866 and 1869.
The Chelsea Embankment, about 1.5 km in length, extends from Battersea Bridge to Chelsea Bridge, on the north side of the river Thames and was built between 1868 and 1874. There is another short section of embankment near the Tower of London.
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