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unusual facts about Bedford, Greater Manchester



457th Air Expeditionary Group

On Saturday, 28 July, Lieutenant Colonel William F. Smith lost his way while ferrying a B-25 Mitchell bomber from Bedford, Massachusetts, to Sioux Falls AAF via Newark Airport.

Act of Uniformity 1558

The bishop of Llandaff, Anthony Kitchin, refused to officiate at Parker's consecration; thus instead bishops deposed and exiled by Mary assisted: William Barlow, former Bishop of Bath and Wells, John Scory, former Bishop of Chichester, Miles Coverdale, former Bishop of Exeter, and John Hodgkins, former Bishop of Bedford.

Adrian Schoolcraft

Between 1 June 2008 and 15 October 2009, Schoolcraft recorded conversations at the 81st Precinct police station, responsible for the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.

Barbodhan

The largest population of Barbodhians outside India is in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where the community settled in the 1950s and 1960s.

Bedford Dormobile

The novelist Anthony Burgess, who owned one and used it as a home and means of travelling throughout Western Europe in the late 1960s, described the Bedford Dormobile as "a miracle of British design, although much let down by slipshod British execution — screws missing, bad wood-planing..."

Bedford Magazine Explosion

Not long after VE-Day, on the evening of Wednesday, July 18, a fire broke out on the jetty of the Bedford Magazine, now CFAD Bedford (Magazine Hill) on the Bedford Basin, north of Dartmouth.

Bedford, Pennsylvania

While Buchanan was there the first trans-Atlantic cable message was sent to his room from Queen Victoria on August 17, 1858.

Rutherford B. Hayes, and Benjamin Harrison visited Chalybeate Springs Hotel, as did many other notable people.

Bedford has both Walmart and REI distribution centers, due to its close location to major highways and cities.

Bedfordite

Other than Bedford himself, notable members included John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich; Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower; Richard Rigby, who served as principal Commons manager for the group; Thomas Thynne, 3rd Viscount Weymouth; Edward Thurlow; and George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough

In his article about Bedford for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Martyn Powell contends that accusations of opportunism are unfair, and that flexibility was necessary for a relatively small party like the Bedford Whigs.

Brian Bedford

Bedford appeared with James Garner in the 1966 film Grand Prix, and in 1967 he was a regular on the short-lived CBS television series Coronet Blue.

British Rail Class 127

The units were almost exclusively used on London St. Pancras to Bedford commuter services, which earned the class the nickname "Bed-Pan" units.

Camille Pissarro

He came back again in 1892, painting in Kew Gardens and Kew Green, and also in 1897, when he produced several oils described as being of Bedford Park, Chiswick, but in fact all being of the nearby Stamford Brook area except for one of Bath Road, which runs from Stamford Brook along the south edge of Bedford Park.

Carol Shea-Porter

Shea-Porter, like several of her colleagues, found herself on the defensive at two such events held in Portsmouth and Bedford.

Charles Ashley

Charles S. Ashley, Mayor of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1897 to 1905

Civil Defence Ireland

Many of the vehicles have all-terrain capabilities such as Land Rover Defender field ambulances, Bedford and Iveco four-wheel drive lorries and Bandvagn 206 personnel carriers.

Clifford Brown

While driving at night in the rain on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, west of Bedford, she lost control of the car and it went off the road.

Cross River Reservoir

It is situated within the towns of Bedford, Lewisboro, and Pound Ridge, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the village of Katonah, and over 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City.

Croydon Vocational Tower

These train operating companies provide services to the South Coast, Bedford, Manchester, Luton and Luton Airport, Gatwick Airport, and fast services to London Victoria and London Bridge.

Delaine Buses

From the 1930s to the 1990s, the majority of vehicles in the Delaine fleet were of Bedford or Leyland manufacture.

East Anglian Waterways Association

For more than fifty years, EAWA has worked with other organisations to have the River Great Ouse reopened to Bedford, the purchase and restoration of Dilham Dyke on the Broads, and many other projects.

Edward Martell

After receiving his Ph. D., he became a group leader at the Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and also took up a position at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Reid

Elizabeth Jesser Reid (1789–1866), English social reformer, founder of Bedford College

Empress Mill, Ince

Empress Mill, Ince was a single storey shed mill alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, spinning cotton in Ince, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

Everett Turnpike

North of Exit 7 in Nashua, the turnpike runs by itself and has no number, but parallels US-3, which is a toll-free local road variously known as Concord Street (within the city of Nashua) and the Daniel Webster Highway (within Merrimack and Bedford).

Giacomo Castelvetro

He dedicated the work to Lucy, Countess of Bedford on the request of her brother John Harington and on the hope of acquiring future patronage but was unfortunate in this enterprise.

Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST

The NCB continued to use Austerities in the 1970s and a small number remained in service until the early 1980s, notably at Bickershaw Colliery, Greater Manchester.

International Tour de Toona

The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset Counties in Pennsylvania.

Jennifer James

Jennifer James (born Jennifer Marie Reynolds; 3 December 1977) is an English actress born in Billinge Higher End, Wigan in Greater Manchester.

John Maines

In addition to his everyday banding activities Maines was for many years the presenter of the long running BBC weekly band programme "GMR Brass” and in 1999 received the Manchester Music Makers award for his contribution to music broadcasting in the Greater Manchester area.

Kampfgeschwader 54

Between 29 July and 14 August 1942 it lost 6 bombers on missions against Bedford, Birmingham, Norwich, Southend, Hastings and Luton.

KBFR

Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport, an airport serving Bedford, Indiana and assigned the ICAO code KBFR

Kotli

Many Kotli city residents have ties to British nationals in the city of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, Luton, Bedford, Watford and Birmingham.

Kulveer Ranger

At the 2005 General Election, Ranger stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Makerfield, Greater Manchester, against the Labour incumbent Ian McCartney.

Laura Silverman

Laura Jane Silverman (born June 10, 1966, in Bedford, New Hampshire) is an American actress/voice actress, and the elder sister of actress/comedian Sarah Silverman.

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.

Marshall County, Tennessee

Marshall County was created in 1836 from parts of Giles, Bedford, Lincoln and Maury counties, and was named after the American jurist, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

New Enterprise

New Enterprise Public School, in South Woodbury Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania

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Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale

He lived for many years in Englefield Green, Surrey, was chairman of the council of Royal Holloway College during its merger with Bedford College in 1985.

Saddleworth, South Australia

Saddleworth was originally established as one of many settlements on the road to Burra, and was named after Saddleworth Lodge pastoral station, a local landholding which itself was named after a town of Saddleworth in Greater Manchester (formerly in Yorkshire), England.

Short backfire antenna

The SBF antenna was invented by Dr. Hermann W. Ehrenspeck of Air Force Cambridge Research Labs based at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, MA and was used for among other purposes, to provide Tactical Satellite Communications for U.S. Army ground forces due to the SBF's portability and gain.

Skarszewy

Each year over summer, students from Sandy Upper School, Stratton Upper School in Biggleswade and Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedford travel to Skarszewy for twelve days to teach English to some of the younger generation of the town.

Steven Purugganan

He currently attends Fox Lane High School in Bedford, New York and is on the school's cross country team, along with his brother Brian, coached by Christopher Dossena.

Stockport Sports F.C.

Stockport Sports F.C. is a football club based in Woodley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

The Peel Group

The Group moved into the energy sector in 2008 with the opening of Scout Moor Wind Farm on the West Pennine Moors in Greater Manchester nearby Edenfield and Rochdale.

Tillingbourne Bus Company

As well as a large number of Bedford vehicles, which continued to be bought new until the late 1980s, the fleet also included the AEC Reliance, Leyland Leopard, Leyland Tiger and Volvo B10M models, and the first two Dennis Lancet single-deckers to be built.

UFC on Fox: Diaz vs. Miller

Johnny Bedford was expected to face Nick Denis at the event, but Bedford was forced out of the bout with an injury and replaced by Roland Delorme.

Wessell Anderson

Anderson grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, and played jazz early on at the urging of his father, who was a drummer.


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