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4 unusual facts about Astley


Astley's Amphitheatre

* The structure was burned in 1794, then rebuilt.

Ciarán Griffiths

Griffiths attended St Mary's RC High School in Astley near Leigh, between 1994 and 1999; it was during this time that he starred in Children's Ward at the age of thirteen.

Miles Gerard

Descended perhaps from the Gerards of Ince, he was, about 1576, tutor to the children of Squire Edward Tyldesley, at Morleys Hall, near Astley, Lancashire.

William Batty

When Astley's Amphitheatre suffered its third fire, Batty was in Dublin, and boarded the next steamer to London to arrange for its rebuilding in Westminster Street.


Amphithéâtre Anglais

The Amphithéâtre Anglais in Paris, also known as the Amphithéâtre Astley, was opened in 1782 by Philip Astley as the first purpose-built circus in France.

Astley Abbotts

Colemore Farm grew to have a total of 136 acres, 68 acres in the nearby parish of Linley and 68 acres in Astley Abbotts.

An early recognition of a change within the boundary of Astley Abbotts can be seen in the history of the parish of Linley.

Astley and Tyldesley Collieries

In the 1840s, John Darlington leased the mineral rights of land belonging to Astley Hall and sank a pit, Astley Colliery, which subsequently became the site of Gin Pit Colliery.

Astley Castle

Sir William Astley died in 1420 leaving his estate to his daughter who had married, in 1415, Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn from a dynasty of marcher lords who controlled the borderlands between England and Wales.

Bror Mellberg

Bror Lars Astley Mellberg (November 9, 1923 in Ambjörby – September 8, 2004) was a football player from Sweden.

Claude Morley

Claude Morley (22 June 1874 Astley Bank, Blackheath-13 November, 1951 Monk Soham House, Monk Soham Woodbridge, Suffolk) was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera.

Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child

The music video, produced by Nixon (under the pseudonym T'Boo Dalton) and directed by Scott Kalvert, features Nixon and Roper with lookalikes of Tiffany, Astley and Collins—and actress Winona Ryder as Debbie Gibson.

Doddingtree

The lower division consisted of the Manors of Abberley; Astley; Alton; Bayton; Bewdley; Doddenham; Dowles; Glasshampton; Mamble; Ribbesford; Great Witley; Rochford; Shelsley Beauchamp; Rock; Shrawley and Stockton.

Earlestown

However, when first opened the club was originally called Astley's after Newton-le-Willows-born, pop-star Rick Astley.

Édouard Chassaignac

With Gustave-Antoine Richelot (1806-1893) he published a French translation of the surgical works of Astley Cooper, Oeuvres chirurgicales complètes d’Astley Cooper.

Edwin Astley

In 1977, Astley wrote the orchestral score for Street in the City, a song contained in the Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane's album Rough Mix.

Frederick Kempster

In June 1911, he joined the Astley and Co.'s American Circus at Chigwell in Essex as a professional giant.

Gordon Astley

Although brought in to replace former chief presenter Chris Tarrant, who'd left to present O.T.T., Astley himself said he was there to take over James's old role.

Horace Astley

Born in Bolton, Astley played professionally for Middlesbrough, before following manager Jack Robson South to join the newly established club, Crystal Palace.

James Altham

Elizabeth married first Sir Francis Astley of Hill Morton and Melton, knight, then Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby (c. 1599–1642) (Irish peerage), and lastly Sir John Bernard, knight and baronet, serjeant-at-law.

Joan Astley

Jane Meutas, Jane or Joan, maiden name Astley, lady-in-waiting

Joan Bright Astley

In 1971, Joan Astley wrote of her wartime life in a memoir, The Inner Circle: a View of War at the Top, and in 1993 co-authored a book on Sir Colin Gubbins.

Leigh Union workhouse

Leigh Poor Law Union was established on 26 January 1837 in accordance with the Poor Law Amendment Act covering six townships, Astley, Atherton, Bedford, Pennington, Tyldesley with Shakerley and Westleigh of the ancient parish of Leigh plus Culcheth, Lowton, and part of Winwick.

Manchester Collieries

The collieries were linked to mainline railways at Ellenbrook and Sandersons Sidings on the Tyldesley Loopline, at Astley Green sidings on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, at Walkden Low Level on the line to Bolton, at Walkden High Level on the Manchester and Wigan Railway and at Linnyshaw Moss on the Manchester to Bolton Line.

Margaret Clitherow

A group of parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool, Sacred Heart in Hindsford, St Richard's in Atherton, Holy Family in Boothstown, St Ambrose Barlow in Astley, St Gabriel's, Higher Folds in Leigh are now united as a single community with St Margaret Clitherow as its patron.

Morley Hall

Morleys Hall, moated hall, Morleys Lane, on the edge of Astley Moss in Astley, Greater Manchester

New Hall moated site

New Hall, in the Park of Tyldesley, close to Damhouse by the Astley, Greater Manchester border, was in existence before 1422 when it belonged to Thomas Tyldesley.

Rickrolling

In 2009, Astley wrote about 4chan founder moot for Time magazine's annual Time 100 issue, where he thanked moot for the rickrolling phenomenon.

Thea Astley

In 2005, the Thea Astley lecture was instituted at the Byron Bay Writers Festival, with Kate Grenville delivering the inaugural one.

Despite tepid reception among some, there were also many who admired Astley's writing for both its style and for the subject matter, such as writer Kerryn Goldsworthy, who was quoted as saying, "I love its densely woven grammar, its ingrained humour, its uncompromising politics, and its undimmed outrage at human folly, stupidity and greed".

Thomas Tyldesley

Thomas Tyldesley was born on 3 September 1612 at Woodplumpton, the eldest of the six children of Edward Tyldesley (1582–1621) of Morleys Hall, Astley, in the parish of Leigh and his wife Elizabeth Preston of Holker Hall.

Thorpe Astley

Several roads in the Thorpe Astley estate are named after famous people from history, including the 18th-century political radical Thomas Paine and American paratroop commander General James M. Gavin.

William Thomas Moncrieff

Moncrieff's first success was at Astley’s circus with The Dandy Family an equestrian drama, and in 1820 The Lear of Private Life, with Junius Brutus Booth as hero, enjoyed a long run.


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