118-715: The Princes Hall in Aldershot , England is a 600-seat theatre / receiving house which presents a varied programme of music , ballet , comedy , pantomime . An additional three function rooms named the Princes Suite, the Edinburgh Suite and the Tichborne Suite (after the prominent Aldershot family) are available for hire for conference, parties and weddings. The Theatre is owned and managed by Rushmoor Borough Council . The Princes Hall also hosted
236-487: A castaway against his own will, Ballard's protagonists often choose to maroon themselves; hence inverted Crusoeism (e.g., Concrete Island ). The concept provides a reason as to why people would deliberately maroon themselves on a remote island; in Ballard's work, becoming a castaway is as much a healing and empowering process as an entrapping one, enabling people to discover a more meaningful and vital existence. The story
354-589: A vaccination centre during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Princes Hall was awarded the Devereux Cup in 2008 for its contribution to the arts. The Princes Hall website www.princeshall.com won Best Recreation or Tourism Website at the 2008 Hantsweb Awards Commissioned by Rushmoor Borough Council as a civic hall after the demolition of the town's Theatre Royal in 1959 and the Hippodrome theatre in 1961,
472-424: A "national crime" and forbids Friday from practising it. In classical , neoclassical and Austrian economics , Crusoe is regularly used to illustrate the theory of production and choice in the absence of trade, money, and prices. Crusoe must allocate effort between production and leisure and must choose between alternative production possibilities to meet his needs. The arrival of Friday is then used to illustrate
590-404: A Spanish Galleon has run aground on the island during a storm, but his hopes for rescue are dashed when he discovers that the crew abandoned ship. Nevertheless, the abandoned galleon's untouched supplies of food and ammunition, along with the ship's dog, add to Crusoe's reserves. Every night, he dreams of obtaining one or two servants by freeing some prisoners; during the cannibals' next visit to
708-465: A Spanish port. Before the Spaniards return, an English ship appears; the sailors have staged a mutiny against their captain and intend to leave him and those still loyal to him on the island. Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal in which Crusoe helps the captain and the loyal sailors retake the ship. With their ringleader executed by the captain, the mutineers take up Crusoe's offer to remain on
826-417: A Tierra" (now part of Chile ) which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. Pedro Serrano is another real-life castaway whose story might have inspired the novel. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and that the book was a non-fiction travelogue . Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe
944-578: A canteen. In her autobiography, Seacole wrote: 'We set to bravely at Aldershott to retrieve our fallen fortunes, and stem off the ruin originated in the Crimea, but all in vain...'. The venture is believed to have failed through lack of funds and the two being declared bankrupt. The Aldershot Military Tattoo was an annual event dating back to 1894. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo held at
1062-489: A draft. Severin also discusses another publicized case of a marooned man named only as Will , of the Miskito people of Central America, who may have led to the depiction of Friday . Secord (1963) analyses the composition of Robinson Crusoe and gives a list of possible sources of the story, rejecting the common theory that the story of Selkirk is Defoe's only source. The book was published on 25 April 1719. Before
1180-408: A final mountain to enter the promised land . The book tells the story of how Robinson becomes closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time alone amongst nature with only a Bible to read. Conversely, cultural critic and literary scholar Michael Gurnow views the novel from a Rousseauian perspective: The central character's movement from a primitive state to
1298-470: A four horse chariot". Many agreed with Decimus Burton that the statue looked ridiculous since it was out of proportion. It was nicknamed "The Archduke" and was a popular topic in the satirical magazine Punch . Queen Victoria claimed that the statue ruined the view of the skyline from Buckingham Palace , and she privately proposed that the statue be moved. The Duke, who had only sat for the sculptor on two or three occasions, suddenly became very attached to
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#17327806123921416-578: A free tabloid, ceased publication. Following the demolition of the Theatre Royal and Hippodrome theatres in 1959 and 1961, the local council opened its own Princes Hall in 1973 as an entertainment venue. Another entertainment venue and arts centre is the West End Centre on Queens Road which is popular for small-scale theatre, music and comedy. Sam Leach, their then agent and wanting to become their manager, attempted to introduce
1534-524: A friendly castaway who was marooned for many years, has a wild appearance, dresses entirely in goat skin, and constantly talks about providence. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's treatise on education, Emile, or on Education , the one book the protagonist is allowed to read before the age of twelve is Robinson Crusoe . Rousseau wants Emile to identify himself as Crusoe so he can rely upon himself for all of his needs. In Rousseau's view, Emile needs to imitate Crusoe's experience, allowing necessity to determine what
1652-674: A further 675 secondary school places being created at the Alderwood and Wavell schools. A mix of infants and juniors exists, including Park Primary School and St Michael's (C of E). The infant schools are Talavera, Wellington Primary, and Bell Vue Infant School. Junior schools include: Newport County, Talavera, Wellington Secondary and St Joseph's Primary (Catholic). Aldershot has only one secondary school, Alderwood School (formerly Heron Wood School and The Connaught School), though Ash Manor School , Farnham Heath End School , All Hallows Catholic School and The Wavell School are all local. In
1770-584: A gardener were killed in a car bomb attack on the 16th Parachute Brigade headquarters mess . A further 19 people were injured. The bombing was claimed by the Official IRA as revenge for the Bloody Sunday massacre. The only army officer killed was Captain Gerry Weston, a Catholic British Army chaplain. An area to be developed into a memorial garden was used to mark the 40th anniversary of
1888-630: A gesture of forgiveness and goodwill, the Freedom of the Borough of Aldershot was conferred on the Canadian Army on 26 September 1945 in a ceremony held at the town's recreation ground . In the following year Aldershot's military prison the 'Glasshouse' was burned down in prison riots. A substantial rebuilding of the barracks was carried out between 1961 and 1969 by the architecture and engineering firm Building Design Partnership . The work
2006-554: A gift from aviation pioneer Patrick Young Alexander to the British Army, a fact which is recorded by a plaque near the observatory door. It reads: "Presented to the Aldershot Army Corps by Patrick Y Alexander Esq 1906". The former Wesleyan church on Grosvenor Road has a 100-foot tower that can be seen for miles around the town and which is described as " the only significant tower in the town". Opened in 1877,
2124-527: A literary genre. Its success led to many imitators; and castaway novels, written by Ambrose Evans, Penelope Aubin , and others, became quite popular in Europe in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Most of these have fallen into obscurity, but some became established, including The Swiss Family Robinson , which borrowed Crusoe's first name for its title. Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels , published seven years after Robinson Crusoe , may be read as
2242-465: A mecca for Hardcore, and it was regularly sold out during this time. At the height of the club's popularity, a teenager's death from a suspected overdose of ecstasy was the catalyst that saw dance music leaving the club and had a negative impact on the hardcore dance scene in the Aldershot area. Union Street and Wellington Street at the centre of the town's shopping district were pedestrianised in
2360-415: A more civilized one is interpreted as Crusoe's denial of humanity's state of nature . Robinson Crusoe is filled with religious aspects. Defoe was a Puritan moralist and normally worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as The New Family Instructor (1727) and Religious Courtship (1722). While Robinson Crusoe is far more than a guide, it shares many of
2478-474: A renewed plan to sail to the mainland. After more cannibals arrive to partake in a feast, Crusoe and Friday kill most of them and save two prisoners. One is Friday's father and the other is a Spaniard, who informs Crusoe about the other Spaniards shipwrecked on the mainland. A plan is devised wherein the Spaniard would return to the mainland with Friday's father and bring back the others, build a ship, and sail to
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#17327806123922596-557: A sense, Crusoe attempts to replicate his society on the island. This is achieved through the use of European technology, agriculture and even a rudimentary political hierarchy. Several times in the novel Crusoe refers to himself as the "king" of the island, while the captain describes him as the "governor" to the mutineers. At the very end of the novel the island is referred to as a "colony". The idealized master-servant relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural assimilation , with Crusoe representing
2714-528: A single person such as Selkirk, because the story is "a complex compound of all the other buccaneer survival stories." However, Robinson Crusoe is far from a copy of Rogers' account: Becky Little argues three events that distinguish the two stories: "The economic and dynamic thrust of the book is completely alien to what the buccaneers are doing," Lambert says. "The buccaneers just want to capture some loot and come home and drink it all, and Crusoe isn't doing that at all. He's an economic imperialist: He's creating
2832-484: A small parrot. He reads the Bible and becomes religious, thanking God for his fate in which nothing is missing but human society. He also builds two boats: a large dugout canoe that he intends to use to sail to the mainland, but ends up being too large and too far from water to launch, and a smaller boat that he uses to explore the coast of the island. More years pass and Crusoe discovers cannibals , who occasionally visit
2950-686: A small party of NCOs and men of the Royal Engineers arrived in November 1853 in the area that is today Princes Gardens , they were the first soldiers to arrive in Aldershot. At this time, the area was heathland with the only building in sight being the Union Poor House , built in 1629 as a sub-manor for the Tichborne family and later used as the local workhouse and a school. It was one of five permanent local buildings purchased by
3068-409: A systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability. In The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man , Warren Montag argues that Swift was concerned about refuting the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe's novel seems to suggest. In Treasure Island , author Robert Louis Stevenson parodies Crusoe with the character of Ben Gunn ,
3186-426: A woman named Susan Barton. Other stories that share similar themes to Robinson Crusoe include William Golding 's Lord Of The Flies (1954), J. G. Ballard 's Concrete Island (1974), and Andy Weir 's The Martian (2011). The term "inverted Crusoeism" was coined by J. G. Ballard . The paradigm of Robinson Crusoe has been a recurring topic in Ballard's work. Whereas the original Robinson Crusoe became
3304-425: A world of trade and profit." Other possible sources for the narrative include Ibn Tufail 's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan , and Spanish sixteenth-century sailor Pedro Serrano . Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan is a twelfth-century philosophical novel also set on a desert island , and translated from Arabic into Latin and English a number of times in the half-century preceding Defoe's novel. Pedro Luis Serrano
3422-673: Is Aldershot Town who compete in the Football Conference . Before 1992 the local club was Aldershot , which folded on 25 March 1992, while playing in the Football League Fourth Division . The current club was formed shortly afterwards and achieved five promotions in its first 16 seasons to return to the Football League in 2008. The previous Aldershot club's biggest success arguably came in 1987, just five years before closure, when they became
3540-455: Is a quote from Robinson Crusoe , and like Crusoe, the novel's protagonist Adam Pollo suffers long periods of loneliness. "Crusoe in England", a 183 line poem by Elizabeth Bishop , imagines Crusoe near the end of his life, recalling his time of exile with a mixture of bemusement and regret. J. M. Coetzee 's 1986 novel Foe recounts the tale of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of
3658-661: Is also a Tesco superstore located at the rear of the development. Aldershot has many parks, playgrounds and open spaces for sport, play and leisure, including Aldershot Park , Brickfields Country Park , the Municipal Gardens , Manor Park and the Princes Gardens , the latter three a short walk from the town centre. The legacy of the Army has meant that the land for leisure use, as well as protected areas for flora and fauna, has been preserved over many years. On
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3776-582: Is billed as the United Kingdom's first Buddhist community centre. With the influx of large numbers of Nepalis into the area in recent years giving Rushmoor the largest Buddhist community in the United Kingdom, a temple and community centre to cater for their spiritual and secular needs was required. The centre was formally opened on the High Street by the 14th Dalai Lama in June 2015. When
3894-784: Is close to several major roads, including the M3 and the A3 . Its nearest dual-carriageway roads are the A31 to the south, which heads east towards Guildford and the A3; to the east, the A331 which heads north towards Farnborough and the M3. Bus services from Aldershot are provided by Stagecoach South . Since the closure of Aldershot bus station in May 2023 passengers now access the bus services at various on-street stops around
4012-577: Is commonly known, is the Aldershot Military Stadium, Aldershot. Blackwater Valley Runners are a social running club and organise many local races. Opened in 1930, Aldershot Lido is a traditional outdoor leisure pool that contains 1.5 million gallons of water situated on a 10-acre (4.0 ha) site. The original land was a lake that had become overgrown with weeds. It was bought by the Borough Council in 1920 for £21,000 and
4130-577: Is intricately detailed including musculature and veins. It was designed and built by Matthew Cotes Wyatt who used recycled bronze from cannons that were captured at the Battle of Waterloo . It took thirty men over three years to finish the project. Originally, in 1846, the statue was erected at Hyde Park Corner , London on the Wellington Arch . However, Decimus Burton , architect of the arch, had tried to veto this plan for his preferred "figure in
4248-671: Is thought to be Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk , who spent four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra (renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966) in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast. Selkirk was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers during an English expedition that led to the publication of Selkirk's adventures in both A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World and A Cruising Voyage Around
4366-527: Is to be learned and accomplished. This is one of the main themes of Rousseau's educational model. In The Tale of Little Pig Robinson , Beatrix Potter directs the reader to Robinson Crusoe for a detailed description of the island (the land of the Bong tree) to which her eponymous hero moves. In Wilkie Collins ' most popular novel, The Moonstone , one of the chief characters and narrators, Gabriel Betteredge, has faith in all that Robinson Crusoe says and uses
4484-637: Is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade . Robinson Crusoe (the family name corrupted from the German name "Kreutznaer") sets sail from Kingston upon Hull , England , on a sea voyage in August ;1651, against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a career in law. After a tumultuous journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his desire for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey, too, ends in disaster, as
4602-702: The Sooty Show , Little and Large , The Krankies , Val Doonican , Barbara Dickson , Danny La Rue , Lenny Henry , Dan Snow , Norman Wisdom , Des O'Connor , Alvin Stardust , The Hollies , Joan Armatrading and Katherine Jenkins . It has also attracted many top comedians including Jimmy Carr , Frank Skinner , Rhod Gilbert , Sarah Millican , Lee Mack , Al Murray , Russell Kane , Jethro , Harry Hill , Bobby Davro , Freddie Starr , Russell Brand , Omid Djalili , Rob Brydon , Ross Noble , Lee Nelson , Russell Brand and Ken Dodd . Ever since it opened
4720-530: The British Army . This led to a rapid expansion of Aldershot's population, going from 875 in 1851 to in excess of 16,000 by 1861 (including about 9,000 from the military). Mrs Louisa Daniell arrived in the town at this time and set up her Soldiers' Home and Institute to cater for the spiritual needs of the soldiers and their families. During this period Holy Trinity church , the Presbyterian church ,
4838-626: The Hundred of Crondall referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086. The Church of St Michael the Archangel is the parish church for the town and dates to the 12th century with later additions. There was almost certainly an earlier church on the site. Cistercian monks from the nearby Waverley Abbey established granges or farms on their outlying estates, including one at Aldershot by 1175 for sheep grazing. We do not know when monks from
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4956-529: The Rushmoor district, Hampshire , England. It lies on heathland in the extreme north-east corner of the county, 31 mi (50 km) south-west of London . The town has a population of 37,131, while the Aldershot Urban Area – a loose conurbation , which also includes other towns such as Camberley and Farnborough – has a population of 243,344; it is the thirtieth-largest urban area in
5074-620: The Rushmoor Arena presented displays from all branches of the services, including performances lit by flame torches. At one time the performances attracted crowds of up to 500,000 people. The Tattoo was organised to raise money for military charities. By the end of the 1930s, the event was raising around £40,000 annually. The Tattoo's modern format, the Army Show, was cancelled in 2010 by the Ministry of Defence due to budget cuts. It
5192-561: The Surrey border can be found Rowhill Nature Reserve which is popular with nature-lovers, dog owners, walkers and joggers. Aldershot has many sports facilities including the Rushmoor Gymnastics Academy, Aldershot Tennis Centre, Aldershot Bowling , Aldershot Pools and Lido , Aldershot Garrison Sports Centre, Alderwood Leisure Centre (formerly Connaught Leisure Centre) and Alpine Snow Sports (Dry Ski Centre). Formerly
5310-575: The UK . Aldershot is known as the Home of the British Army , a connection which led to its rapid growth from a small village to a Victorian town. The name is likely to have derived from alder trees found in the area (from the Old English 'alor-sceat' meaning copse, or projecting piece of land, featuring alder trees). Any settlement, though not mentioned by name, would have been included as part of
5428-751: The Union Building , the Royal Garrison Church and other churches. Until 1993, the town served as headquarters for the Royal Corps of Transport and the Army Catering Corps , until they were merged into the Royal Logistic Corps and moved to Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut . Queen Victoria and Prince Albert showed a keen interest in the establishment and development of Aldershot as a garrison town in
5546-521: The War Department in 1854 as part of the development of the new Aldershot Camp, and was used by the Army from 1854 to 1879 as No 2 Station Hospital. In later years, it saw a variety of uses before being redeveloped as flats. Aldershot railway station is a stop on the Alton Line ; South Western Railway runs services between London Waterloo , Alton , Guildford and Ascot . Aldershot
5664-522: The Wesleyan church and Rotunda chapel were built in the town centre to cater for the spiritual needs of the increasing numbers of troops in the nearby camp and the growing civilian town. In August 1856, on her return from the Crimean War and "wishing to be with her sons in the Army", Mary Seacole with her business partner Thomas Day is said to have arrived in Aldershot where they attempted to open
5782-519: The "enlightened" European while Friday is the "savage" who can only be redeemed from his cultural manners through assimilation into Crusoe's culture. Nonetheless, Defoe used Friday to criticize the Spanish colonization of the Americas . According to J.P. Hunter, Robinson is not a hero but an everyman . He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand, and ends as a pilgrim , crossing
5900-545: The 1850s, at the time of the Crimean War . They had a wooden Royal Pavilion built, where they would often stay when attending reviews of the army. In 1860, Albert established and endowed the Prince Consort's Library , which still exists today. To celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, 25,000 British and Colonial soldiers marched from Laffan's Plain near Farnborough, reviewed by Queen Victoria. Beside
6018-603: The 1970s when the Wellington Centre, a covered shopping centre, was built over the site of the town's former open-air market. As of 2020, Union Street East is undergoing regeneration; the project has been referred to as Union Yard. During the 1980s and 1990s, the Victorian shopping arcade and various other period buildings in Wellington Street were demolished to allow for the building of an extension to
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#17327806123926136-619: The 314 men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who lost their lives in the Boer War of 1899-1902 is located at the top of Gun Hill. An outline planning application has been agreed for the redevelopment of some of the former Military Town. The Aldershot Urban Extension will bring some 3,850 new homes, two new primary schools, a children's day-care centre, additional secondary school places, community facilities, waste recycling and landscaping to an area of 150 hectares. In 2013,
6254-636: The Abbey first came to Aldershot but the first documentary evidence is from 1287 when the Crondall Rental records that at 'Alreshate the Monks of Waverlye hold 31 acres of encroachment'. This area ran from the church of St Michael's down to the area around the present Brickfields Country Park while the grange itself was near the church. John Norden 's map of Hampshire, published in the 1607 edition of William Camden 's Britannia , indicates that Aldershot
6372-579: The Angelick World . "He is the true prototype of the British colonist. ... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity." Irish novelist James Joyce The novel has been subject to numerous analyses and interpretations since its publication. In
6490-522: The Beanstalk (2001), and Dominic Wood in Cinderella (2002). The pantomime has been produced and directed by Hopkins Associates since 1994 (celebrating 20 years of pantomime in 2013) and is written by James Barry. Since 2005 the Princes Hall has produced many well-known and well-attended fairy tales . These have included: Sleeping Beauty (2005), Beauty and the Beast (2006), The Wizard of Oz (2007), Peter Pan (2008), Snow White (2009), Cinderella (2010), Aladdin (2011), Beauty and
6608-408: The Beast (2012), Peter Pan (2013), and Snow White (2014). From 2006 to 2008 the Princes Hall hosted a professional ice show in the main auditorium during the summer. Over 14 tonnes of crushed ice were used to create the ice rink on the main stage, on which over 30 Russian ice skaters and acrobats performed. These were Snow White on Ice (2006), Peter Pan on Ice (2007) and Beauty and
6726-405: The Beast on Ice (2008). Since 2010 the Princes Hall has also been the location of the Aldershot Visitor Information Centre. Services available include advice on things to do and see locally, books, maps and guides, local accommodation, events and information as well as train and bus time tables. Aldershot Aldershot ( / ˈ ɔː l d ər ʃ ɒ t / AWL -dər-shot ) is a town in
6844-439: The Beatles to London agents by promoting shows at The Palais Ballroom, on the corner of Perowne Street and Queens Road in Aldershot on 9 December 1961. Leach wanted to organise a 'battle of the bands' between The Beatles and Ivor Jay and the Jaywalkers from London. The show was not advertised properly and, as a result, only 18 people attended. The local newspaper, The Aldershot News , failed to publish Leach's advertisement for
6962-475: The British soldiers, marched men from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Aldershot Military Town comes under its own military jurisdiction. It was home to the Parachute Regiment from its formation in 1940 until it moved to Colchester Garrison in 2003. Many famous people have been associated with the Military Town, including Charlie Chaplin , who made his first stage appearance in The Canteen theatre aged 5 in 1894, and Winston Churchill , who
7080-403: The Farnborough Road) was the scene of highway robberies. At one time it had "almost as bad a reputation as Hounslow Heath ". Dick Turpin is said to have operated in the area having his headquarters nearby in Farnborough , and there were sightings of Spring-heeled Jack . In 1854, at the time of the Crimean War , Aldershot Garrison was established as the first permanent training camp for
7198-422: The German-occupied city of Warsaw for a period of three winter months, from October to January 1945, when they were rescued by the Red Army , were later called Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw ( Robinsonowie warszawscy ). Robinson Crusoe usually referred to his servant as "my man Friday", from which the term " Man Friday " (or "Girl Friday") originated. Robinson Crusoe marked the beginning of realistic fiction as
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#17327806123927316-455: The Guide of Youth inspired Robinson Crusoe because of a number of passages in that work that are closely tied to the novel. A leitmotif of the novel is the Christian notion of providence , penitence, and redemption. Crusoe comes to repent of the follies of his youth. Defoe also foregrounds this theme by arranging highly significant events in the novel to occur on Crusoe's birthday. The denouement culminates not only in Crusoe's deliverance from
7434-471: The Island Ceylon . Severin (2002) unravels a much wider range of potential sources of inspiration, and concludes by identifying castaway surgeon Henry Pitman as the most likely: Severin argues that since Pitman appears to have lived in the lodgings above the father's publishing house and that Defoe himself was a mercer in the area at the time, Defoe may have met Pitman in person and learned of his experiences first-hand, or possibly through submission of
7552-442: The MoD announced a £100 million investment to expand Aldershot Garrison and bring 750 more service personnel and their families to settle in Aldershot. A statue of the first Duke of Wellington mounted on his horse, Copenhagen, is situated on Round Hill behind the Royal Garrison Church. The statue is 30 ft (9.1 m) high, 26 ft (7.9 m) from nose to tail, over 22 ft (6.7 m) in girth, weighs 40 tons and
7670-620: The Princes Hall has hosted a popular annual pantomime for three weeks every December. The first pantomime held was Puss in Boots in December 1972 starring Tommy Trinder . Subsequent productions have included Harry H. Corbett in Robinson Crusoe (1973), Bob Grant in Cinderella (1974), Melvyn Hayes in Aladdin (1975), Roger Kitter in Jack and the Beanstalk (1976), John Junkin in Red Riding Hood (1977), Anna Karen in Dick Whittington (1979), Clive Dunn , Janet Fielding and Valentine Dyall in Aladdin (1983), Dave Lee Travis in The Pied Piper (1984) and Babes in
7788-466: The Princes Hall was built on the site of the old Warburg Barracks and was designed by Building Design Partnership . It opened in November 1972 with a gala concert by Kenny Ball and the Jazzmen and was named for HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh who officially opened the centre on 22 May 1973 and who said: "I'm sure this centre will be a tremendous success. I can’t help feeling that you should all jump up and start dancing. In case there are any doubts –
7906-415: The UK. The rise in the Nepalese population led Gerald Howarth , Conservative Member of Parliament for Aldershot, to request government assistance in expanding local public services to meet the needs of the growing population. On 22 February 1972, Aldershot experienced the first in a series of mainland IRA attacks. Seven people, six of whom were civilian support staff, including five catering staff and
8024-521: The Wellington Centre known as The Galleries. The Galleries has remained almost vacant for many years now and is currently under consideration for proposed redevelopment into a mixed use retail and residential scheme, with potential commercial leisure space. In 2003, a health check of the town centre concluded that, "Aldershot is experiencing promising signs of revitalisation, particularly in the shopping core". This revitalisation failed to materialise, with prominent traders such as Marks and Spencer leaving
8142-449: The Wood (1991), Sally James in Dick Whittington (1985), Arthur English in Cinderella (1986), Johnny Ball in Jack and the Beanstalk (1988) and Mother Goose (1989), Keith Chegwin in Aladdin (1990) and Cinderella (1992), Danny John Jules and Nigel Pivaro in Jack and the Beanstalk (1994), Carmen Ejogo in Robin Hood (1995), Michael Fenton Stevens in The Wizard of Oz (2000), Bodger & Badger in Jack and
8260-403: The World in 1712. According to Tim Severin , "Daniel Defoe, a secretive man, neither confirmed nor denied that Selkirk was the model for the hero of his book. Apparently written in six months or less, Robinson Crusoe was a publishing phenomenon." According to Andrew Lambert , author of Crusoe's Island , it is a "false premise" to suppose that Defoe's novel was inspired by the experiences of
8378-471: The benefits of individualism to a not entirely convinced religious community. J. Paul Hunter has written extensively on the subject of Robinson Crusoe as apparent spiritual autobiography, tracing the influence of Defoe's Puritan ideology through Crusoe's narrative, and his acknowledgement of human imperfection in pursuit of meaningful spiritual engagements – the cycle of "repentance [and] deliverance". This spiritual pattern and its episodic nature, as well as
8496-501: The bombing in 2012. Aldershot Military Town is located between Aldershot and North Camp near Farnborough . It is a garrison town that serves as the location for the military presence in the area. It houses Aldershot Garrison's married quarters, barracks, Army playing fields and other sporting facilities. The military town includes some local landmarks, such as the Aldershot Observatory , Aldershot Military Cemetery ,
8614-416: The book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad , encountering cannibals , captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk , a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más
8732-421: The book for a sort of divination . He considers The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe the finest book ever written, reads it over and over again, and considers a man but poorly read if he had happened not to read the book. French novelist Michel Tournier published Friday, or, The Other Island (French Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique ) in 1967. His novel explores themes including civilization versus nature,
8850-562: The captain's dog and two cats survive the shipwreck. Overcoming his despair, he fetches arms, tools and other supplies from the ship before the next storm breaks it apart. He builds a fenced-in habitat near a cave which he excavates. By making marks in a wooden cross, he creates a calendar post to keep track of his time on the island. Over the years, by using tools salvaged from the ship, and some which he makes himself, he hunts animals, grows barley and rice, dries grapes to make raisins, learns to make pottery and traps and raises goats. He also adopts
8968-514: The church served the Methodists of Aldershot for over 100 years and could seat 1,150 people until its closure in 1988. Today the original complex of church, Soldiers' Home and Hall has been converted into offices, a dental surgery, gymnasium and homes. Aldershot Buddhist Centre is a Buddhist temple and community centre catering for the Buddhists of Aldershot and surrounding area, which
9086-486: The country with 20% of the British Army being based in and around the town. Aldershot was home for two Infantry Divisions and a Cavalry Brigade in addition to large numbers of artillery, engineers, service corps and medical services. At the start of World War I , the units based at Aldershot became the 1st Corps of the British Expeditionary Force , and soon tens of thousands of new recruits came to
9204-474: The defence of the United Kingdom while much of the British Army was overseas. Additional units of the Canadian Army followed later creating the largest force of British Commonwealth troops ever to be stationed in the UK at one time. The Aldershot riot of July 1945 caused considerable damage to the town centre when disgruntled Canadian troops tired of waiting to be repatriated rioted in the streets for two evenings. In
9322-434: The eldest daughter in default of sons prevailed, as over a large part of Cumberland, and this is a peculiarly Norse custom. The first recorded mention of the manor of Aldershot is in 1573 in the will of Sir John White of Aldershot (c1512–1573), alderman of London and knighted when he became Lord Mayor of London (1563-4). He left Aldershot Manor to his son Sir Robert White of Aldershot (died 1599). He in turn left
9440-430: The end of the year, this first volume had run through four editions. By the end of the nineteenth century, no book in the history of Western literature had more editions, spin-offs, and translations (even into languages such as Inuktitut , Coptic , and Maltese ) than Robinson Crusoe , with more than 700 such alternative versions, including children's versions with pictures and no text. The term " Robinsonade "
9558-789: The endless anguish and suffering, the product of absolute abandonment to his fate, now held in the General Archive of the Indies , in Seville . It is quite possible that Defoe heard his story in one of his visits to Spain before becoming a writer. Yet another source for Defoe's novel may have been the Robert Knox account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon Rajasinha II of Kandy in 1659 in An Historical Relation of
9676-496: The first team to win the Football League Fourth Division promotion play-offs, at the expense of a far bigger club – Wolverhampton Wanderers . Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe ( / ˈ k r uː s oʊ / KROO -soh ) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe , first published on 25 April 1719. Written with a combination of epistolary , confessional , and didactic forms,
9794-543: The importance of repentance and illustrates the strength of Defoe's religious convictions. Critic M.E. Novak supports the connection between the religious and economic themes within Robinson Crusoe , citing Defoe's religious ideology as the influence for his portrayal of Crusoe's economic ideals, and his support of the individual. Novak cites Ian Watt 's extensive research which explores the impact that several Romantic Era novels had against economic individualism, and
9912-442: The island rather than being returned to England as prisoners to be hanged. Before embarking for England, Crusoe shows the mutineers how he survived on the island and states that the Spaniards will be coming. Crusoe leaves the island on 19 December 1686 and arrives in England on 11 June 1687. He learns that his family believed him dead; as a result, he was left nothing in his father's will. Crusoe departs for Lisbon to reclaim
10030-402: The island to kill and eat prisoners. Alarmed at this, he conserves the ammunition he'd used for hunting (running low at that point) for defence and fortifies his home in case the cannibals discover his presence on the island. He plans to kill them for committing an abomination, but later realizes he has no right to do so, as the cannibals do not knowingly commit a crime. One day, Crusoe finds that
10148-457: The island, but his spiritual deliverance, his acceptance of Christian doctrine, and in his intuition of his own salvation. When confronted with the cannibals, Crusoe wrestles with the problem of cultural relativism . Despite his disgust, he feels unjustified in holding the natives morally responsible for a practice so deeply ingrained in their culture. Nevertheless, he retains his belief in an absolute standard of morality; he regards cannibalism as
10266-527: The island, when a prisoner escapes, Crusoe helps him, naming his new companion " Friday " after the day of the week he appeared. Crusoe teaches Friday the English language and converts him to Christianity. Crusoe soon learns from Friday that the crew from the shipwrecked galleon he'd found had escaped to the mainland and are now living with Friday's tribe. Seeing renewed hope for rescue and with Friday's help, Crusoe builds another, but smaller, dugout canoe for
10384-530: The lack of trying". After the gig, the band went on to London to join an after hours jam at the Blue Gardenia Club. Weeks after this Brian Epstein became the group's manager. At the end of the 1990s and the start of the 2000s, an underground scene of rock bands cropped up around Aldershot. Notable bands include Reuben , Vex Red , Inter and Hundred Reasons . The Palace (previously The Palace Cinema, The Rhythm Station, Cheeks, Vox), influenced
10502-540: The large training centre in the Camp. This had a great effect on the civilian town as there was a great shortage of accommodation for the troops and many were billeted in local houses and schools. Aldershot played a vital role in the formation of Kitchener's Army , providing the core of the Army from 1914 onwards as well as treating the wounded brought back from the trenches in France and Flanders. The Cambridge Military Hospital
10620-400: The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world (1720). Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels (1726) is in part a parody of Defoe's adventure novel. The book proved to be so popular that the names of the two main protagonists, Crusoe and Friday, have entered the language. During World War II , people who decided to stay and hide in the ruins of
10738-501: The manor to be divided between his two daughters, Ellen the wife of Sir Richard Tichborne and Mary, the wife of Sir Walter Tichborne , brother of Richard. The 18th-century jurist Charles Viner lived in the town and printed his A General Abridgment of Law and Equity on a press in his home. In the 18th century, the stretch of the London to Winchester turnpike that passed through Aldershot between Bagshot and Farnham (now known as
10856-583: The origins of forensic podiatry in this episode. It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade , as works such as Johann David Wyss ' The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee 's Foe (1986) and Michel Tournier 's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (in English, Friday, or, The Other Island ) (1967). Two sequels followed: Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and his Serious reflections during
10974-555: The place is now open". Entertainers and personalities who have appeared at the Princes Hall include Gene Pitney , Ivor Emmanuel , Billy Fury , Marty Wilde , Heinz , New World , Martha Reeves and the Vandellas , Bobby Crush , Charles Hawtrey , Kenny Ball , Tommy Trinder , Bobby Davro , Syd Lawrence , Geno Washington , Jools Holland , Jane McDonald , Anna Karen , Joe Brown , Harry Corbett and Matthew Corbett in
11092-468: The possibility of trade and the gains that result. One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , 1719 The work has been variously read as an allegory for the development of civilization; as a manifesto of economic individualism; and as an expression of European colonial desires. Significantly, it also shows
11210-611: The profits of his estate in Brazil, which has granted him much wealth. In conclusion, he transports his wealth overland to England from Portugal to avoid travelling by sea. Friday accompanies him and, en route , they endure one last adventure together as they fight off famished wolves while crossing the Pyrenees . There were many stories of real-life castaways in Defoe's time. Most famously, Defoe's suspected inspiration for Robinson Crusoe
11328-469: The psychology of solitude, as well as death and sexuality in a retelling of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story. Tournier's Robinson chooses to remain on the island, rejecting civilization when offered the chance to escape 28 years after being shipwrecked. Likewise, in 1963, J. M. G. Le Clézio , winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature , published the novel Le Proces-Verbal . The book's epigraph
11446-400: The rapid growth of the hardcore scene from 1992 to 1995. Weekly events included Fusion (Hectic Records) , Tazmania, Slammin' Vinyl and Future World. The club also groomed local talents such as DJ Sharkey , DJ Mystery, DJ Sy, DJ Unknown, Vinylgroover, DJ NS, Hixxy, MC Freestyle, MC Young, MC Smiley and Spyder MC. The location of Aldershot between Southampton and London meant the club became
11564-469: The re-discovery of earlier female novelists, have kept Robinson Crusoe from being classified as a novel, let alone the first novel written in English – despite the blurbs on some book covers. Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson , admired it, saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable; more prosaically, Wesley Vernon has seen
11682-434: The reversal of those ideals that takes place within Robinson Crusoe . In Tess Lewis's review, "The heroes we deserve", of Ian Watt's article, she furthers Watt's argument with a development on Defoe's intention as an author, "to use individualism to signify nonconformity in religion and the admirable qualities of self-reliance". This further supports the belief that Defoe used aspects of spiritual autobiography to introduce
11800-689: The ship gets blown off course in a storm about forty miles out to sea and runs aground on the sandbar of an island off the Venezuelan coast (which he calls the Island of Despair ) near the mouth of the Orinoco River on 30 September 1659. The crew lowers the jolly boat, but it gets swamped by a tidal wave, drowning the crew, but leaving Crusoe the sole human survivor. He observes the latitude as 9 degrees and 22 minutes north. He sees penguins and seals on this island. Aside from Crusoe,
11918-507: The ship is taken over by Salé pirates (the Salé Rovers ) and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor . Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a captain of a Portuguese ship off the west coast of Africa rescues him. The ship is en route to Brazil . Crusoe sells Xury to the captain. With the captain's help, Crusoe procures a plantation in Brazil. Years later, Crusoe joins an expedition to purchase slaves from Africa but
12036-487: The show. In addition, Ivor Jay and the Jaywalkers failed to appear. However, the band and friends had their own fun after the show, drinking ale, playing football with bingo balls and dancing the foxtrot. The noise became so loud that a neighbour called the police who shut the event down. When interviewed in 1983 about the Aldershot gig, Paul McCartney described it as "the night we couldn't get arrested, but it wasn't for
12154-574: The statue and would not consider its removal from its arch. In 1885, the Prince of Wales handed over the monument to Lieutenant General Anderson, the commander of the Aldershot Garrison. The observatory is a circular red-brick building with a domed roof, and it stands on Queen's Avenue. Inside is a telescope , 8-inch refractor , mounted on a German-type equatorial mount with a clockwork drive. The telescope and observatory building were
12272-474: The themes and theological and moral points of view. "Crusoe" may have been taken from Timothy Cruso , a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth (1695), before dying at an early age – just eight years before Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe . Cruso would have been remembered by contemporaries and the association with guide books is clear. It has even been speculated that God
12390-643: The town also hosted short circuit motor racing including speedway and stock car racing . Greyhound racing took place at Aldershot Stadium, and point-to-point racing at Tweseldown . Famous running club AFD has produced top runners. Aldershot Park hosts a number of sports facilities and organisations. Aldershot is home to arguably the most successful athletics club in British and European history, Aldershot, Farnham & District A.C. The club has produced many Olympians including Roger Hackney , Zola Budd , Lily Partridge and Steph Twell and specialises in middle – long distance running. The home of AFD , as it
12508-425: The town centre. In 2005, Rushmoor Borough Council documented the percentage of vacant shops at 10%, 8% and 7% respectively for Union Street, the Wellington Centre and Wellington Street. The Westgate Leisure Park, which opened in 2012–2013 and which fronts onto Barrack Road, includes a Cineworld cinema, a Morrisons supermarket, and several chain restaurants, including Nando's , Mimosa and Pizza Express . There
12626-535: The town centre. National Express coach services operate between London Victoria and Portsmouth twice a day. Farnborough Airport is located 5 miles (8.0 km) away, with Heathrow 29 miles (47 km) and Gatwick 43 miles (69 km) away. There are various schools in Aldershot. These will be joined by two new primary schools being built as part of the Aldershot Urban extension development of 3,850 houses. This development will also be served by
12744-569: The town's West End can be found Rowhill School , a special school for students of secondary age unable to attend mainstream schooling for a variety of reasons. There are also two private schools, Salesian College and Farnborough Hill School in nearby Farnborough. The local press is the Aldershot News & Mail , a Surrey Advertiser Group broadsheet . At the end of November 2017, the Surrey-Hants Star Courier ,
12862-463: Was a Spanish sailor who was marooned for seven or eight years on a small desert island after shipwrecking in the 1520s on a small island in the Caribbean off the coast of Nicaragua. He had no access to fresh water and lived off the blood and flesh of sea turtles and birds. He was quite a celebrity when he returned to Europe; before passing away, he recorded the hardships suffered in documents that show
12980-557: Was a market town. Prior to 1850, Aldershott was little known. The area was a vast stretch of common land , a lonely wasteland unsuitable for most forms of agriculture with scant population. As it existed at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086, the extensive settlement of Crondall in the north-east corner of Hampshire was certainly Scandinavian, for among the customs of that great manor, which included Crondall, Yateley , Farnborough, and Aldershot, that of sole inheritance by
13098-435: Was also illustrated and published in comic book form by Classics Illustrated in 1943 and 1957. The much improved 1957 version was inked / penciled by Sam Citron, who is most well known for his contributions to the earlier issues of Superman . British illustrator Reginald Ben Davis drew a female version of the story titled Jill Crusoe, Castaway (1950–1959). Bob Mankoff , cartoon editor of The New Yorker attributes
13216-770: Was based there in the late 19th century during his time in the Army. The area also houses various military and regimental museums, including the Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum and the Aldershot Military Museum , housed in a red-brick Victorian barracks. Until December 2007, the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Museum was in Aldershot. It has since moved to the Imperial War Museum Duxford . The RAMC Memorial to
13334-482: Was briefly revived the following year and attracted 20,000 visitors. In 2012, it was styled as the Aldershot Garrison Show, a smaller free event held on Armed Forces Day . The Army Show was replaced in 2013 with a general Military Festival. Events were held across the town, including an art exhibition, live music, sports events and film screenings. In 1914, Aldershot had the largest army camp in
13452-488: Was coined to describe the genre of stories similar to Robinson Crusoe . Defoe went on to write a lesser-known sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). It was intended to be the last part of his stories, according to the original title page of the sequel's first edition, but a third book was published (1720), Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of
13570-673: Was sped up under government pressure, and various new building technologies were employed with mixed success. In 1974, Aldershot borough, which had been based at Aldershot Town Hall , merged with Farnborough urban district to form the Borough of Rushmoor under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 . After a 2009 campaign , the British Government allowed veteran Gurkha soldiers who had served for more than four years, and their families, to settle in
13688-586: Was the first base hospital to receive casualties directly from the Western Front and it was here that plastic surgery was first performed in the British Empire by Captain Gillies (later Sir Harold Gillies ). From 1939 to 1945 during World War II , about 330,000 Canadian troops of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigades passed through Aldershot for training before being deployed for
13806-547: Was the focus of the council's improvement projects for the town. The Lido became an Olympic venue in 1948 when it was the site of the swimming event in the Modern Pentathlon of that year's London Olympic Games. The pool has extensive areas of shallow water for children to play including a large fountain at the centre. It also has a diving area and water slides. There is an adjoining 25 m indoor pool that allows all year round swimming. The local professional football team
13924-451: Was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Some allege it is a contender for the first English novel . Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television, and radio, that its name
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