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19 unusual facts about Aston


1982 Professional Players Tournament

One was at the La Reserve in Sutton Coldfield and the other was the International Snooker Club in Aston.

Alfred Homer

Homer's father, also called Alfred Homer, founded the Vulcan Brewery in Aston, Birmingham, in 1878.

Alpha Television

Alpha Television was a British limited company which operated television studios in Aston, Birmingham.

Aston-on-Trent

This manor came under the control of the King again following Morcar being murdered in 1015 and the lands were later given to Ælfgar, the Earl of Mercia, but he lost this at the Norman Conquest.

Playing in the Long Eaton Sunday League, the two teams are currently in the Oakes Insurance Premier Division and Division Three respectively.

Aston, Hertfordshire

Located in Hertfordshire on a ridge between the new-town of Stevenage and the Beane Valley, the village of Aston is just 10 minutes drive from the A1(M).

Barnabas Gunn

From 1748 until his death in 1753 Gunn also organised regular concerts between early May and mid-August in Duddeston Gardens, Aston, featuring artists from as far away as London and Germany.

Big City Radio

Big City Radio (launched on 1 November 2005 as Aston FM) is a British community radio station based in Aston, Birmingham.

Florence Newton

In 1685, the son of Christopher Crofts was taken ill at Cork, and his sickness blamed upon Gammer Welsh, whom his father had sent to prison, and in 1699, a woman is reported to have been arrested, sentenced to death, strangled and burned at Aston for having cast a spell on a nine-year-old girl.

Keith Chadwick

On leaving the company he joined Aston based company Radshape Sheet Metal in June 2000 as Lean Manufacturing consultant, later becoming Sales/Quality Director.

Lee Abbey

Small communities based in households in Aston in Birmingham and Knowle West in Bristol aim to share their faith through getting alongside people in deprived areas of British cities.

Lynx gang

The gang was founded in the Small Heath area of the city, but later spread to the Birmingham boroughs Lozells, Handsworth Birmingham, Sparkbrook, and Aston.

Moon Base One

The 'patient' will be Tony Hale, from Aston near Birmingham (who goes on to feature in the rest of the series).

Pedro Howse

Peter Howse was born in Aston, Birmingham, UK, to Geezer Butler's sister, Maura.

Richard Aston

The Astons derived their name from Aston in Cheshire, where the family had been settled since the time of Henry II.

Salts Healthcare Ltd

Salts Healthcare is one of the UK's oldest family-run manufacturing companies, based in Aston, Birmingham.

Thomas Maxfield

He was born in Stafford gaol, one of the younger sons of William Macclesfield of Chesterton and Maer and Aston, Staffordshire; William Macclesfield was a Catholic recusant, condemned to death in 1587 for harbouring priests, one of whom was his brother Humphrey.

Walter Allen

He was born in Aston, Birmingham; he drew on his working-class roots for All in a Lifetime (1959), generally considered his best novel.

Xtra AM

The programming came from the BRMB studios based in Aston, Birmingham, and the signal was relayed from the Langley Mill transmitter (Birmingham) and Shilton (Coventry).


1882–83 West Bromwich Albion F.C. season

Harry Aston scored the only goal of the semi-final against Aston Unity at Perry Barr.

1897 FA Cup Final

Aston Villa won 3–2, with goals by John Campbell, Fred Wheldon and Jimmy Crabtree.

1979–80 Aston Villa F.C. season

3 May 1980: Liverpool clinch the league title in their penultimate league game of the season by beating Aston Villa 4–1 at Anfield.

Alan O'Neill

Alan O'Neill (footballer born 1937), English footballer, played for Sunderland and Aston Villa, see 1960–61 Football League Cup

Aston Centre for Europe

The Aston Centre for Europe delivers a number of its Masters programmes in co-operation with the Institut d'études politiques de Lille (Sciences-Po, Lille), the Institut d'études politiques de Rennes (Sciences-Po, Rennes), and the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany.

Aston Clinton

On 22 September 1934 a Handley Page W.10 a twin-engined biplane airline named Youth of New Zealand of Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Displays, crashed into a field near the canal at Aston Clinton.

Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber lists Aston Clinton as his home in England where he lives with his partner Ann Neal.

Aston Hall

Washington Irving used Aston Hall as the model for Bracebridge Hall in his The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..

Irving's The Sketch Book stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, that had largely been abandoned.

Aston Martin DBS

The Aston Martin DBS also features an optional Bang & Olufsen sound system with 13 active loudspeakers including two tweeters with ALT (Acoustic Lens Technology).

Aston Martin Vanquish

As part of Aston Martin's 100th anniversary celebration, a Vanquish was airlifted onto the helipad of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on January 17, 2013 using an AgustaWestland AW139 Helicopter.

Aston University

The Aston University (officially The University of Aston, or simply Aston) is a research-led plate glass campus university situated at Gosta Green, in the city centre of Birmingham, England.

Aston University Engineering Academy

Business partners of Aston University Engineering Academy include E.ON, Goodrich Corporation, National Grid plc, PTC and the Royal Air Force.

Aston Villa F.C. in the 1880s

They defeated Saltley College 3–2 in the Final with goals from Eli Davis, William Mason and George Ramsay in front of 6,000 at Aston Lower Grounds (modern-day Villa Park).

BR standard class 7 70048 The Territorial Army 1908–1958

During her life she was allocated to various depots including Chester, Willesden, Newton Heath, Annesley, Aston, Carlisle Upperby and finally Carlisle Kingmoor.

Chris Gilmour

Through his career and artistic development, there has been a progression in the choice of objects he portrayed, which go from smaller domestic items (like the moka or the typewriter) to objects which are larger and belong to a broader cultural context (the Fiat 500, the Lambretta and, more recently, James Bond's iconic Aston Martin).

Clifford-Constable baronets

His father Thomas Clifford who married Barbara Aston of Tixall Hall was a brother of the 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

Corrupt practices

One of the most high-profile cases of corrupt practices in recent years was that of the local government elections in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham in June 2004.

Duston

British Timken was established in Chester Road, Aston, Birmingham in 1937 manufacturing tapered roller, parallel roller and ball bearings.

Felicity Aston

Aston has also walked across the ice of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest and oldest lake, and completed the Marathon des Sables.

First Battle of Middlewich

Sir Thomas obviously conducted himself satisfactorily in the campaign culminating in the Battle of Edgehill because an order from Prince Rupert in January 1643 refers to him as a colonel of a regiment of cuirassiers, and two days later on 19 January the King announced that he was sending Aston as a Major-General to Cheshire and Lancashire.

Harold Primat

Harold was joined by Peter Kox and Stuart Hall for Le Mans where a water leak curtailed the #009 Lola-Aston Martin’s involvement after 252 laps.

Herbert Ellis

Doug Ellis (Herbert Douglas Ellis, born 1924), British entrepreneur, chairman of Aston Villa Football Club

HWM

Hersham and Walton Motors, a garage business, trading as HWM Aston Martin and HWM Alfa Romeo, and former racing car constructor

Johnny Lightning

Also they make a lot film-inspired cars, like the Ghostbusters Cadillac, the Green Hornet's Black Beauty, Batman's Batmobile, the James Bond Aston Martin, Dukes Of Hazzard-related models, etc.

Kilsyth Rangers F.C.

Some famous players to have played for the team are Drew Jarvie (Airdrieonians, Aberdeen, St. Mirren), William Wallace (Heart of Midlothian, Celtic), Frank McGarvey (St.Mirren, Liverpool, Celtic), David Stewart (Leeds United), Pat McMahon (Celtic, Aston Villa), George Mulhall (Aberdeen, Sunderland), Jim Storrie (Airdrieonians, Aberdeen, Leeds United), Gary McStay (Falkirk) plus many more.

Kitwood Boys School

Noted school attendees: Julian Joachim (Professional Footballer - Leicester FC, Aston Villa).

Lex Davison

Davison had finished second in the 1960 Australian Grand Prix and fourth in the Australian Gold Star Championship in an Aston Martin DBR4/300.

Luke Moore

Moore travelled to the USA to undergo surgery in October 2006, with Cleveland Browns' head team physician Anthony Miniaci carrying out the procedure, following advice from Aston Villa chairman Randy Lerner.

Minchinhampton

In 2005, following a Freedom of Information request, the local newspaper revealed that Aston Down is contaminated with arsenic, hydrocarbons and radium.

Nimrod Racing Automobiles

For 1982, with the evolved NRA/C2, Nimrod Racing would turn to the IMSA GT Championship in North America due to EMKA Racing taking over Aston Martin's factory-backed efforts in Europe with their own car.

Paul Tilsley

He also represented Aston on the West Midlands County Council from 1973 until its abolition in 1986, where he was Liberal Group Leader.

Runcorn Railway Bridge

In 1861 Parliamentary approval for a bridge was obtained by the LNWR as part of building a line from Aston, to the southeast of Runcorn where it joined the line from Crewe to Warrington at Weaver Junction, to the west of Widnes, where it joined the line from Warrington to Garston at Ditton Junction.

Samuell

Samuell Benta (born 1986), British actor who portrays Will Aston, the Black Ranger in Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive

The Ethiopians

The Ethiopians were a ska, rocksteady, and reggae vocal group, founded by Leonard Dillon (b. 9 December 1942, Port Antonio, Jamaica, d. 28 September 2011), Stephen Taylor and Aston Morris.

Walter Price

Walter H. Price, one of the 'Four Founding Fathers' of Aston Villa Football Club

William Drury Lowe

After his marriage in 1827 to Caroline Esther Curzon daughter of Lord Scarsdale they lived at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent for a while before he took up the challenge of running the estate near Kimbolton in Bedfordshire.