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7 unusual facts about Beckley


Beckley, Oxfordshire

When Bridget died in 1657 Beckley passed to their son James Bertie, 5th Baron Norreys, whom Charles II made 1st Earl of Abingdon in 1682.

Beckley and Horton remained with the Bertie family until 1919, when Viscount Bertie, son of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon, broke up the estate and sold it in small lots.

Maria Ann Smith

The Smiths lived at Beckley, Sussex for the next nineteen years, during which time Maria bore eight children, three of whom died in infancy.

Philip Fotheringham-Parker

Philip Fotheringham-Parker (22 September 1907 in Beckenham, Kent – 15 October 1981 in Beckley, East Sussex) was a racing driver from England.

The Lilly Brothers

Other radio works followed at WJLS in Beckley, West Virginia and on several other Southern radio stations during the 1940s.

WCIR

WCIR-LP, a low-power television station (channel 2) licensed to Beckley, West Virginia, United States

WVexplorer

Established in 1999 by journalist and historian David T. Sibray through Sibray & Associates, of Beckley, West Virginia, the publication was conceived to provide visitors with a journalistic alternative to information being provided through travel bureaus 1.


1994 Aloha Bowl

K-State's only score came with eight seconds left in the first quarter when Joe Gordon crashed the middle of BC's line and blocked a punt by Jeff Beckley.

Alfred Beckley

By summer 1861, Beckley was in charge of the 12th Brigade of Virginia militia against Union troops at Cotton Hill, West Virginia, in the Kanawha Valley.

BKW

Beckley Raleigh County Memorial Airport, an airport in Beckley, West Virginia, United States

Comet Man

Stephen Beckley was the son of Jack Beckley of the United States Air Force.

Corio Oval

Both moved to a newly constructed complex at Beckley Park, adjacent to the Princes Highway in Corio.

Crossroads Mall

Crossroads Mall (West Virginia), a shopping mall near Beckley, West Virginia, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

Jake Beckley

After his Major League career ended, Beckley became a player/manager for Kansas City in the American Association in 1908-1909, Bartlesville in the Western Association in 1910, and Hannibal in the Central Association in 1911.

Richard Haas

These include Chase Field; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building & Courthouse in Beckley, West Virginia; the main branch of the New York Public Library, the Lakewood Public Library (Ohio), the Sarasota County, Florida Judicial Center and the former Board of Education building in Brooklyn, NY´.

Rob Beckley

Robert Benjamin Beckley is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Christian rock band Pillar, which was voted Best Hard Rock Band in CCM Magazine's 2006 Reader's Choice Awards.

South Charleston High School

South Charleston is one of only a few schools in the state of West Virginia that has been in existence for more than 75 years, along with Huntington High School, Sissonville High School, Parkersburg High School, Morgantown High School, Martinsburg High School, and Woodrow Wilson High School.

Southern West Virginia King's Warriors

Southern West Virginia King's Warriors is an American soccer club based in Forest Hill, West Virginia and playing games in nearby Beckley.

Texas State Highway Spur 366

Spur 366, also named Woodall Rodgers Freeway, is a highway that connects Beckley Boulevard and Singleton Avenue in West Dallas to Interstate 345 and U.S. Highway 75 (North Central Expressway) in central Dallas, Texas.

Tony Beckley

Beckley spent two years as a seaman aboard the destroyer HMS Scorpion where he found the time to prepare for admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

While his mother wanted him to do "something nice and safe", i.e. working in the civil service, Beckley felt he had discovered that acting was what was going to make him happy when he saw a performance of Emlyn Williams' "The Corn is Green" by the Portsmouth local repertory company the Court Players.

WCIR

WCIR-FM, a radio station (103.7 FM) licensed to Beckley, West Virginia, United States

WJLS

WJLS-FM, a radio station broadcasting at 99.5 MHz on the FM band, licensed to Beckley, West Virginia

WVVA

In addition to its main studios, WVVA operates a Beckley Bureau (on Main Street along North Kanawha Street/WV 210) and a "virtual" Greenbrier Valley Bureau (covering Summers, Monroe, and Greenbrier Counties in West Virginia as well as Giles County, Virginia).


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