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unusual facts about Beckley, East Sussex


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.


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.

Acme Records

Acme Records, an independent record label based in Hastings, East Sussex, England, was formed in 1994 by Gary Ramon (the frontman of Sun Dial).

Alistair Hepburn

Hepburn studied as a chartered surveyor and valuer at Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology in East Sussex before joining the Royal Artillery during World War II.

Ambleton Delight

Filmed exclusively in East Sussex, UK it is directed by Brighton and Hove based Daniel Parkes, based on a script by Japanese writer Itsuka Yamasaki and Ben Rohde, produced by Sinéad Ferguson and starring veteran Coronation Street actor Brian Capron.

Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff

They retired to a farm in Ringmer, East Sussex, where she kept pigs and he kept cows and sheep, and grew barley.

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.

BKW

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

Bouverie Place Shopping Centre

Folkestone bus station is adjent to the shopping centre and is served by local buses to other major towns in East Kent and East Sussex.

Coat of arms of Sussex

The device, displaying six martlets or heraldic swallows on a shield, later formed the basis of the flag of Sussex and the armorial bearings granted to the county councils of East and West Sussex.

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

Death of Gertrude Hullett

Gertrude "Bobby" Hullett (1906 – 23 July 1956), a resident of Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, was a patient of the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams, who was charged with her murder but never tried for it.

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex, and moved to Spain in 2002 with her husband, former British chess champion James Plaskett and their son, Alexander.

Firle Place

Firle Place is a Manor house in Firle, East Sussex, United Kingdom and is the family seat of Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage, whose family the Viscounts Gage have owned the land at Firle since acquiring it from the Levett family in the 15th century.

Franciszek Gruszka

In the spring of 1975 a World War II aviation archeology group found the remnants of an airplane and its pilot in marshes between Preston Village and Stodmarsh, East Sussex.

Gerald S. Graham

Gerald Sandford Graham (born 27 April 1903 in Sudbury, Ontario - died 5 July 1988 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970.

Heather Stewart-Whyte

Born in East Sussex, England, Stewart-Whyte found success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, garnering several runway shows for Versace, Armani, Saint-Laurent and Lagerfeld.

High Sheriff of Sussex

At various times the High Sheriff of Surrey was also High Sheriff of Sussex (1229–1231, 1232–1240, 1242–1567, 1571–1635), The office of High Sheriff of Sussex ceased with local government re-organisation in 1974, when the county was split for local government purposes into East Sussex (see High Sheriff of East Sussex) and West Sussex (see High Sheriff of West Sussex).

History of local government in England

In County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Shropshire, Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, one or two major towns/cities were established as unitary authorities, with the rest of the county remaining two tier.

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.

Lewes Arms controversy

The Lewes Arms controversy involved a dispute between the Greene King Brewery and the regulars of the Lewes Arms pub in Lewes, East Sussex, England from 2006 to April 2007, when the brewery withdrew from sale a local beer.

Lullington, East Sussex

Lullington is a hamlet 9⅓ miles southeast of Lewes, East Sussex, England.

Margaret Tuke

She was educated at home until she was 15 and then two years at St John's School in Withdean, now part of Brighton, East Sussex.

Pimania

The sundial was eventually won in 1985 by Sue Cooper and Lizi Newman, who correctly worked out that it could only be found on July 22 (because Pi is sometimes rounded to 22/7) at the chalk horse at Hindover Hill near Litlington, East Sussex.

RAF Beachy Head

RAF Station Beachy Head was a Royal Air Force (RAF) radar station and one of the many Chain Home Low radar stations, being situated near Beachy Head and Eastbourne in East Sussex, England.

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´.

Rivers of Kent

It is included here since for part of its journey near Bodiam it forms the boundary between Kent and East Sussex.

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.

Science Projects Limited

One site which had been of interest for a long time was Herstmonceux, in East Sussex, the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Seahaven FM

Seahaven FM is a Community Radio Station which was set up in early 2008 to provide "Genuinely Local Radio" to the communities in the area in East Sussex known as Seahaven.

Separate We Come, Separate We Go

Filming took place at sparsely populated areas of Kent and East Sussex, including Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Lydd, Camber Sands, Rye Harbour, Winchelsea Beach and Dymchurch.

Spa Valley Railway

En route it crosses the Kent and East Sussex border, a distance of 5 miles (8 km), along the former Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells Central Line / Cuckoo Line.

Stefan Booth

Booth appeared in pantomime at the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne, East Sussex from 12 December 2008 to 11 January 2009 in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs starring as the Prince, alongside one of the finalists from the BBC I'd Do Anything series, Niamh Perry.

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.

The Popguns

Originally from Brighton, East Sussex, they formed in 1986 by vocalist Wendy Morgan, guitarists Simon Pickles and Greg Dixon plus bassist Pat Walkington and were joined by Shaun Charman, the former drummer for The Wedding Present in 1988.

The Train Now Standing

The outdoor scenes for The Train Now Standing were filmed at the then disused Bodiam railway station in East Sussex.

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

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

Woodingdean

Woodingdean is an eastern suburb of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, separated from the main part of the city by downland and the Brighton Racecourse.

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.

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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