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5 unusual facts about Beverley


Beverley's

Beverley's was a Jamaican record label (19611971) owned by the Chinese Jamaican record producer Leslie Kong.

Edward Routh

His father's family could trace its history back to the Norman conquest when it acquired land at Routh near Beverley, Yorkshire.

HMT Vizalma

She was built by Cook, Welton & Gemmill, of Beverley and was launched on 11 April 1940 and commissioned on 12 August 1941.

Lease of Life

Exterior sequences for Lease of Life were filmed in Beverley (Gilchester) and the nearby village of Lund (Hinton St. John) in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Paterson Clarence Hughes

In the local town of Beverley in February 1940 Hughes met his future wife Kathleen Agnes (Kay) Brodrick of Kingston upon Hull in the Beverley Arms Hotel.


19822 Vonzielonka

The asteroid was discovered on September 23, 2000 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research team in Socorro and is named for Beverley von Zielonka, former principal of Hastings Middle School in Upper Arlington, Ohio.

Arras culture

Other sites of similar La Tene period burials within the Arras culture, often with chariot burials include: Cawthorn Camps, Pexton Moor, Seamer, Hunmanby, Burton Fleming, Danes Graves, Garton, Wetwang, Middleton on the Wolds, Beverley and Hornsea.

Beverley Acres Public School

In 2007, Beverley Acres Public School celebrated 50 years of education with BBQ and a rehearsal of all the after school plans, including the musical "The Music Man" which was performed by the grade 7 and 8 students of the school.

Beverley Brook

Beverley Brook creates a water feature used by deer, smaller animals and water grasses and some water lilies in Richmond Park (where it is followed by the Tamsin Trail and Beverley Walk).

An anthropomorphic personification of the river, Beverley Brook, appears as one of the daughters of Mama Thames in the 2011 novel Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.

Beverley Brook rises at Cuddington Recreation Park in Worcester Park then flows north in a culvert under the A2043 road, emerging in Worcester Park open space next to Worcester Park Station.

Beverley Folk Festival

The Beverley Folk Festival is a three day celebration of music, workshops, comedy and spoken word that is held in and around Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Beverley Goddard

In 1982, now competing as Beverley Callender, she reached the 200 metres finals at both the European Championships in Athens and the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, finishing fifth (22.91 secs) and sixth (22.92 secs) respectively.

Beverley Hughes

Beverley Hughes was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire in 1950 and was educated at Ellesmere Port Girls' Grammar School (now called The Whitby High School) on Sycamore Drive in Whitby, Ellesmere Port.

Beverley Road

Beverley Road is home to a significant proportion of Hull's student community, given its proximity to the University of Hull, and the former Humberside campus of the University of Lincoln.

Beverley Township, Ontario

When the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth was created in 1974, most of Beverley Township was absorbed by Flamborough, Ontario.

Blackburn Beverley

Only one Beverley has survived: XB259 is on display at Fort Paull, just east of Hull, in England.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 was a Detroit soul group of the 1970s and '80s formed by Michael J. Powell and David Washington. Anita Baker was featured as lead vocalist on their first, self-titled album on Ariola entitled Chapter 8 in 1979, produced by Michael and Derek. Their second album, This Love's for Real was released on Beverley Glen Records in 1985, and their third album, Forever, followed on Capitol Records in 1988.

Christopher Beckett Denison

He was the second son of Edmund Beckett Denison and his wife Maria née Beverley, of Grimsthorpe, Yorkshire.

Delta, Ontario

In 1821, it was changed once more to Beverley, in honour of the Legislative Assembly member Sir John Beverley Robinson.

Filey railway station

The station buildings were designed by the architect George Townsend Andrews, feature an overall roof similar to that further down the line at Beverley and are designated as grade II* listed buildings.

Henry Burton

Henry Burton-Peters (1792–1874), English Whig Member of Parliament for Beverley (1830–1837)

Henry Edwards

Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet (1812–1886), British Conservative MP for Halifax, 1847–1852, and Beverley, 1857–1870

Humberside

Humberside was not well-loved, and to quote James Cran (MP for Beverley), "almost the day after the decision was announced, a campaign began to have Humberside abolished".

J. B. Beverley

Reared in a musical household, Beverley grew up on early country, bluegrass, rockabilly, big band, and various forms of old time blues.

James Octavius Machell

James Machell was born at Etton Rectory near Beverley on 5 December 1837, the youngest child of the Reverend Robert and Eliza Machell.

James R. Beverley

On August 11, 1931, Beverley was one of seven people, including five officials, on board a chartered Pan American Airways Sikorsky seaplane flight tour of Puerto Rico, including the wife of then-Governor Teddy Roosevelt.

John Hine

He was ordained by Archbishop Bowen on 27 February 2001, with Bishops Christopher Budd and Crispian Hollis as co consecrators, and assigned the titular see of Beverley.

John Maunsell

Maunsell acquired additional benefices including: "the Provost of Beverly" in 1247, "the living of Howden," "Chancellorship of St. Paul's, London," "the living of Bawburgh," "Prebend of South Malling," "Living of Haughley," "Prebend of Tottenhall," "Prebend of Chinchester," "Dean of Wimborn," "Rector of Wigan," "Papal Chaplain," as well as "Chaplain of the King."

Kingston upon Thames parks and open spaces

Other open spaces include the western hall of Beverley Park and the University of London Athletic Ground and the BBC Sports Ground, Motspur Park.

Kingstown Radio

Kingstown grew in strength and in 1975 the Wellington Street studio was vacated and the organisation moved to 98 Beverley Road, above the Red Cross offices.

Meaux Abbey

Meaux Abbey (archaic, also referred to as Melsa) was a Cistercian Abbey founded in 1151 by William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle (Count of Aumale), Earl of York and 4th lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Pennyman baronets

Member of Parliament for Scarborough 1770-74 and Beverley 1774-1796, married Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Sir Henry Grey, Baronet of Howick, Northumberland

Pony Club Australia

In 1994 the International Mounted Games were held in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time at Beverley, Western Australia, competing teams were from Canada, Great Britain, United States of America and Australia.

Provideo

In the next three months he added a further eight wins: three at Catterick, two at Beverley and one each at Ripon, Lingfield Park and Folkestone.

R. J. Mitchell

Many of the technical advances in the Spitfire had been made by others: the thin elliptical wings were designed by the Canadian aerodynamicist, Beverley Shenstone, and shared some similarities with the Heinkel He 70 Blitz; the under-wing radiators had been designed by the RAE, while monocoque construction had been first developed in the United States.

RAF Falcons

The Big Six were the first to jump from large military aircraft such as the Beverley - a feat previously thought impossible on the premise that anybody trying to exit from the ramp would be sucked back by the air turbulence.

Richard Levett

The sons of a country parson in Rutland, the two Levett brothers imported goods into England, which they then sold to chapmen at fairs across the country, including those at Lenton, Gainsborough, Boston, Beverley and elsewhere.

Robert Beverley, Jr.

Beverley was the second of three sons born to Major Robert Beverley of Yorkshire, England and his wife, Margaret Boyd.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark

There are three auxiliary bishops: John Hine, titular Bishop of Beverley, Patrick Lynch SS.CC., titular bishop of Castrum and Paul Hendricks, titular Bishop of Ross and Cromarty.

Rosario Salazar

Examples of this include the season 3 episode "My Uncle, The Car," where Karen becomes sad at almost losing Rosario in a bet to her rival Beverley Leslie, and the season 7 episode "Partners," where Karen ignores the plight of a very sick Rosario because she is afraid of losing her.

Silver Centenary

Captain Nesbitt died on 4 October 1930 while flying a Puss Moth to Beverley, where he had intended to demonstrate the Silver Centenary at the Beverley show grounds.

Simon de Brantingham

De Brantingham and his son, Walter, appear as a witness to the grant, on 2 July 1324, of a messuage and appurtenances on the high street in Beverley, between Margaret, widow of Walter de Brychton of Beverley, and Roger Northiby of Walkington.

Where's Huddles?

Other characters included Ed's wife Marge Huddles (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl, also the voice of Wilma Flintstone), their rather jovial if acerbic neighbor Claude Pertwee (voiced by Paul Lynde) who tended to refer to Ed and Bubba as "savages" {Pertwee's only friend is a spoiled cat named "Beverley"}; their teammate Freight Train (voiced by Herb Jeffries), and their daughter Pom-Pom.

Wild 90

The Puerto Rico-born boxer José Torres appeared as the man with the barking dog and Beverley Bentley (Mailer’s wife) played the woman with the knife.

William Beckett-Denison

Beckett was the son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, of Grimthorpe, Yorkshire and his wife Maria Beverley, daughter of William Beverley.

Yorkshire Day

It was celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as "protest movement against the Local Government re-organisation of 1974", The date alludes to the Battle of Minden, and also the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, for which a Yorkshire MP, William Wilberforce, had campaigned.


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