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At the time of the incident, her car was parked in her garage in Leatherhead while she was at a nearby event with 10 other people.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
Rob McDowall, 41, told the BBC he also tried to buy a ticket on board when there were no working ticket machines at Leatherhead station in Surrey due to building works.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2024
National Highways said the next closure will be between junction nine, at Leatherhead, and junction 10, near the A3.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2024
The gator legend also inspired the Leatherhead character, introduced in 1987, in the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” comics and video games.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
The metropolis was now seriously threatened; for soon after dawn on the following day two great French columns, one from Guildford and the other from Leatherhead, were advancing north towards the Thames!
From The Great War in England in 1897 by Le Queux, William
The last non-quarterback to win the MVP was running back Adrian Peterson in 2012, which feels like way back in the leatherhead era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
That the leatherhead era of workplace harassment was over.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
Maltby was famous for his mastery of sports arcana, especially as it pertained to the leatherhead era of American football, as well as for his penchant for striking, counterintuitive analogies.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
Creede pitching into a leatherhead like me, no wonder I did not recognize Virginia in her new dress; I was in such a stew that I hardly knew which end my head was on.
From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert
The silly old leatherhead didn't know he was doing anything against public sentiment; and told the very thing that made a case against him.
From Vandemark's Folly by Quick, Herbert
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