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unusual facts about Barton-upon-Humber


Samuel Wilderspin

However, Queen Street School in Barton-upon-Humber is the only known surviving school built to his designs.


Ania Szado

She attended Humber School for Writers, studying under authors Nino Ricci and Anne Michaels.

Barton Broad

The broad is situated to the south and east of the village of Barton Turf, and is within the parish of Barton Turf.

Barton in the Beans

:The village of Barton in Fabis in Nottinghamshire was once known as Barton in the Beans (Faba being Latin for 'bean' abl. plur. 'fabis')

Barton Knob

In 2005, the Rainbow Gathering considered using (and some may have used) strip-mined land near Barton Knob after being displaced from the original meeting site near Alpena.

Barton, Australian Capital Territory

Parks in Barton include Telopea Park, York Park, Bowen Park which is on the south shore of Lake Burley Griffin, and Grevillea Park on the north side of the lake.

Basil Barton

Windsor was a former Communist who had been MP for Bethnal Green North East in the 1920s, and he defeated Barton with an 8% swing.

C.H. Latimer-Needham

He left the RAF in 1935 and formed his second company, Luton Aircraft, at Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire, where he designed the Buzzard, Minor & Major.

Christian Jensen Lofthuus

Barton, H. Arnold (1986) Scandinavia in the Revolutionary era, 1760-1815 (University of Minnesota Press) ISBN 978-0-8166-1393-9

Corner Brook

Route 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, passes the south side of the city on a high ridge before descending to the east, into the Humber Valley.

Cyril Joe Barton

As LK797 crossed the English coast at dawn, 90 miles to the North of its base, its fuel ran out from the battle damage leakage, and with only one engine still running on vapours and at too low a height to allow a remaining crew bail-out by parachute, Barton crash landed it at the village of Ryhope, steering away in the final descent from the houses and coal pit-head workings.

Don Gililland

:: Gary Slavo, Tom Wirtel, Bob Clull, Chris Witherspoon (trumpets), Don Jacoby (trumpet, leader), Dee Barton, William Barton, Loren Binford, Dave Wheeler (trombones), Al Beutler, John Giordano (alto sax), Jerry Keys (alto & bari sax), Bob Pierson, Don Melka (tenor sax), Keith Jarrett (piano), Don Gililland (guitar), Toby Guynn (bass), John Von Ohlen (drums)

Edmund Barton

The quotation, which spread by email and social networks, includes a photograph of Barton and an extract from a speech which argues for equal treatment of immigrants conditional on their cultural assimilation, the loyalty to the Flag of Australia and the exclusive adoption of the English language in Australia.

Elizabeth Barton

The case of Elizabeth Barton is dealt with extensively in the 2009 historical novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

Gerard Parkes

After Fraggle Rock, in addition to returning as Doc in A Muppet Family Christmas, Parkes continued to work in children's television, guest starring as alcoholic photographer Phil (opposite Sesame Park puppeteer Nina Keogh) on the TVOntario puppet series Today's Special, and appearing regularly on PBS's Shining Time Station as store owner Barton Winslow.

Hamilton North, New Zealand

Located between Barton St and Angelsea St, Casabella Lane is a Spanish themed lane with 21 boutique shops and 9 apartments.

Hamish Barton

A left-handed batsman, and right-arm off break, Barton's father Peter and his uncle Hugh also played first class cricket in New Zealand.

HMS M27

M27 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M31, M33 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in May 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

HMS M33

M33 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M27, M31 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

Humber Motorcycles

Although the founder Thomas Humber left the business in 1892 his successors, Harry Lawson and an American Edward Pennington continued the name.

Humber River Regional Hospital

George Smitherman, politician and broadcaster, born at Humber Memorial (Church site) on February 12, 1964.

Humber-class monitor

Designed for service on the Amazon River, the ships were of shallow draft and heavy armament and were ideally suited to inshore, riverine and coastal work but unsuitable for service at sea, where their weight and light draft reduced their speed from a projected twelve knots to under four.

Ordered from the Vickers Limited shipyard at High Walker on the River Tyne, the three ships were launched by 1913 and were undergoing sea trials when the Brazilian government informed Vickers that they would not be able to pay for the warships.

James R. Barton

Barton was born in Howard County, Missouri, emigrated to Mexico in 1841 and moved to Los Angeles in 1843.

Jimmy Boswell

Gillingham manager Archie Clark also signed four other players who had served with Boswell at Barton Stacey and played alongside him in the unit football team, namely Jackie Briggs, George Forrester, Hughie Russell and Vic Hole.

Joe Daniel

He was also a part-time professor at Humber and Centennial College and during this period presented a number of papers on fibre optic technology.

Judy Clark

Her films include Charles Barton's Beautiful But Broke (1944), Sam Newfield's The Kid Sister (1945), Arthur Dreifuss's Junior Prom (1946), Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947) and Fred C. Brannon's Desperadoes of the West (1950).

Kathleen Shaw

She was born in Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire and was the 1926 World bronze medalist.

Knowsley Hall Music Festival

It was created by the CEO of Cream and Creamfields, James Barton, and Lord Edward Stanley the Lord of the Manor for Knowsley Hall.

Lake Isabella, California

The town of Isabella was founded by Steven Barton in 1893 and named in honor of Queen Isabella of Spain while her name was current during the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Leonard Pearce

For the corporation, Pearce chose the site of a new power station at Barton and supervised its construction to his designs.

North Dakota Highway 17

North Dakota Highway 17 begins at an intersection with ND 3 and ND 60 east of Barton in Pierce County.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Peter D. Robinson

He grew up in Barton Waterside, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, and was educated locally at Castledyke Primary School and Baysgarth Comprehensive School.

Piesseville, Western Australia

However, the name clashed with a town in New South Wales (now little more than a historic gallery outside Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Region), so the town was renamed Barton in 1905 to honour Australia's first prime minister (1901-1903), Sir Edmund Barton.

Reid W. Barton

Reid W. Barton (born May 6, 1983) is one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads.

Sadakazu Uyenishi

Soon after his arrival in London, Uyenishi joined fellow expatriate Japanese wrestler Yukio Tani on the teaching faculty of Barton-Wright's Bartitsu Club in Shaftesbury Avenue.

Sherman Barton

Sherman "Bucky" Barton (born February 2, 1875 in Normal, Illinois - July 11, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Outfielder in the Negro Leagues.

Siege of Gloucester

The modern Gloucester Day has recently included a parade by the Mock Mayor of Barton, an office created after Barton was moved outside of the limits of the city following the restoration of Charles II.

Sir Barton

As a sire, Sir Barton enjoyed only moderate success and spent the better part of the rest of his life as a working horse with the U.S. Army Remount Service in Fort Robinson, Nebraska until being sold to rancher J.R. Hylton in Douglas, Wyoming.

Sue Barton

Sue Barton is the central character in a series of seven novels for adolescent girls written by Helen Dore Boylston between 1936 and 1952.

Texas State Highway Loop 360

It bridges Barton Creek just south of Loop 1 and runs along the east side of the Barton Creek Greenbelt.

The Woman Who Did

Herminia Barton, the Cambridge-educated daughter of a clergyman, frees herself from her parents' influence, moves to London and starts living alone.

TID-class tug

Richard Dunston Ltd., a ship-building company with yards at Thorne on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and at Hessle on the Humber, had pioneered the use of welded construction, rather than the more conventional rivetting, since 1933, although they had never built an all-welded vessel.

Vavamuffin

The band members are Pablopavo, Reggaenerator, Gorg, Emili Jones, Jahcob Junior, Raffi Kazan, Mothashipp, Dubbist and Barton.

William P. C. Barton

President John Tyler appointed Barton to the office of first head of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on September 2, 1842.

World in Motion 1

Special thanks: Mike Corkran, Bill Mueller, Gordon Miller Music, Edward S. Feldman & Bob Sellars for the custom guitars, Derek Sutton, Bob Goldstein (it's in the mail), Peter Sullivan, Elton, Marvin & Stevie, Don Wehner, Barton Kenney, Casey Dansicker, Nancy Scaggs, Jeff Miller (it's in the mail II), Walt Copeland, Randy, Paul, Jeep, and everyone at MSI

Yenny Wahid

Greg Barton in The Australian credits her with having played a crucial role in persuading her father of "the extent of military-backed militia violence in East Timor ... and the culpability of the Indonesian military leadership".


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