London - Kingston upon Thames - Farebrothers Hearse - Pamlin repro postcard 70s

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• Picture / Image:  Messrs. Farebrothers's Hearse and Mourner's Carriage, London Road, Kingston-upon-Thames
• Publisher: Pamlin Prints, Croydon - c.1970s
• Postally used: no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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• Notes / condition: NB - this is an older image on a later postcard 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Kingston upon Thames, frequently known as Kingston, is an area of southwest London, England, 10 miles (16.1 km) southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.

Kingston is about 33 feet (10 m) above sea level. It is notable as the ancient market town in which Saxon kings were crowned. Kingston was part of a large ancient parish in the county of Surrey and the town was an ancient borough, reformed in 1835. Since 1965 Kingston has been a part of Greater London. It has been the location of Surrey County Hall from 1893, extraterritorially in terms of local government administration. Most of the town centre is part of the KT1 postcode area, but some areas north of Kingston railway station have the postcode KT2 instead. The 2011 Censusrecorded the population of the town itself, comprising the four wards of Canbury, Grove, Norbiton and Tudor, as 43,013.^[1]

Kingston was called Cyninges tun in AD 838, Chingestune in 1086, Kingestonin 1164, Kyngeston super Tamisiam in 1321 and Kingestowne upon Thames in 1589. The name means 'the king's manor or estate' from the Old English words cyning and tun. It belonged to the king in Saxon times and was the earliest royal borough.^[2]

The first surviving record of Kingston is from AD 838 as the site of a meeting between King Egbert of Wessex and Ceolnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury.^[3] Kingston lay on the boundary between the ancient kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, until in the early tenth century when King Athelstan united both to create the kingdom of England. Probably because of the town's symbolic location, several tenth-century kings were crowned in Kingston, Æthelstan in 925, Eadred in 946 and Æthelred in 978. Other kings who may have been crowned there are Edward the Elder in 902, Edmund in 939, Eadwig in 956, Edgar in about 960 and Edward the Martyr in 975.

It was later thought that the coronations were conducted in the chapel of St Mary, which collapsed in 1730, and a large stone recovered from the ruins has been regarded since the 18th century as the Coronation Stone. It was initially used as a mounting block, but in 1850 it was moved to a more dignified place in the market before finally being moved to its current location in the grounds of the guildhall.^[4][5]