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unusual facts about Bramley, Rotherham



2010–11 Stevenage F.C. season

Peter Winn opened the scoring just before the interval, cutting inside from the right wing and lashing a shot that beat Rotherham goalkeeper Andy Warrington at his near post.

Amanda Parris

Parris serves as the Business Centre manager, Rotherham Investment and Development Office, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, South Yorkshire.

Bill Waddington

He died in Rotherham General Hospital on the morning of September 9, 2000 at the age of 84 after a 50-year acting career.

Bramley, Leeds

Ernie Wise, of Morecambe and Wise fame (Born in Bramley and brought up in East Ardsley from a very young age).

Bramley, Rotherham

It is also home to three hotels, Elton Hotel (part of the Best Western chain) and Stonecroft Hotel (which are both situated opposite each other) as well as the Hotel Ibis.

Cec Thompson

At Barrow, with the side plagued by injury, he played two games as a second-row against Bramley and Blackpool Borough, to make up the numbers.

Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster

Claire is the elder child of Robert Booth, FCMI, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire (born 1948 at Rotherham and a scion of the ancient Cheshire Booth family) by his wife Barbara Patricia (daughter of Wilfred Robert Hitchin).

Dean Andrews

Born in 1963 in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, Andrews went to Sitwell Junior School on Grange Road and Oakwood Comprehensive School on Moorgate Road.

Derby sex gang

This case occurred after other incidents in Rochdale, Preston and Rotherham, where Asian gangs, usually Muslim Pakistani men, had been convicted of child grooming and rape.

Dread Dragon Droom

Humberside was part of a consortium of LEAs (the others being Barnsley, Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and, for a time, Wakefield) which established a regional support centre called RESOURCE, based in Doncaster.

European Club Soccer

Rotherham United are included amongst the English clubs despite never playing in the top tier of English football, this is due to the developer, Krisalis Software, being based in Rotherham.

Fake Tales of San Francisco

The song derides a fictional South Yorkshire band for taking its inspiration from the USA while never having been there, with lyrics such as "I'd love to tell you all my problem / You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham", and "He talks of San Francisco, he's from Hunter's Bar".

Geoffrey Appleyard

Appleyard was born in Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, the son of John Ernest Appleyard, a successful motor engineer, and Mary Elizabeth Northrop.

Greasbrough Canal

The Greasbrough Canal was a private canal built by the Marquess of Rockingham to serve his coal mining interests in and around the village of Greasbrough, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

Keighley RUFC

With the formation of leagues in 1987, we began life alongside Wharfedale and Rotherham in league North East One, where we remained until reconstruction of leagues in 2000 placed us in Yorkshire league One.

Killamarsh

The first was the North Midland Railway route from Derby to Leeds, later part of the Midland Railway and later still the LMS, whose station was Killamarsh West, located on the section known as the "Old Road": the original direct route between Chesterfield and Rotherham avoiding Sheffield.

Lee Glover

He returned to Millmoor at the end of the season to find that Rotherham had been relegated in his absence.

Masbrough

Masbrough, occasionally misspelt Masborough or Masbro is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

Masbrough railway station was the main railway station for Rotherham for many years, having been opened in 1840 by the North Midland Railway as an interchange with the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway.

The River Don divides Masbrough from the old town of Rotherham.

There are three Christian churches in the Masbrough community: St Bede's Roman Catholic Church, St Paul's Church of England Church and Rotherham Assemblies of God.

Nicholas Gatty

Gatty was a close contemporary and friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams and from around 1900 the latter was to spend summer holidays with the Gattys at Hooton Roberts, between Rotherham and Doncaster, where Gatty's father was Rector.

Nigel Howard Croft

Nigel Croft attended Oakwood Comprehensive School, Rotherham from 1967–1972 and subsequently Thomas Rotherham College (formerly Rotherham Grammar School).

North Midland Railway

From 1966, Sheffield - Doncaster services were switched from Sheffield Victoria to Sheffield (Midland) station, and thus ran over the North Midland line through Rotherham Masborough as far north as Aldwarke Junction (south of Kilnhurst).

Parkgate and Rawmarsh railway station

The station and the adjoining steel works, together with other locations in the Rotherham area, were featured in the 1958 film Tread Softly Stranger starring Diana Dors.

Ramiro Pez

He then joined Rotherham club for the 2001-02 season and was their top points scorer with 202 points, as they won the National Division One title.

Rob McVeigh

Robert "Rob" McVeigh, born 28 April 1983, is a singer from Rotherham, United Kingdom.

Robert D. Macredie

Macredie was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and attended Broom Valley junior and infants' school, Oakwood Comprehensive School, and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology, before an undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Hull.

Rotherham Station

Rotherham Central railway station - closed in 1966 and re-opened in 1987, now Rotherham's only railway station

Rotherham Masborough railway station - Rotherham's only railway station 1966-1987, closed in 1988

Rotherham Tramway

The tramcars used for the Sheffield-Rotherham service were equipped with only one entrance and staircase and like on traditional double-decker buses, seats were made to be comfortable.

Shaun Barker

Born in Trowell, Nottinghamshire, Barker started his career at Rotherham as a junior making his debut in March 2003 against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association

Today, the County FA is responsible for the administration, control, promotion and development of grass-roots football within Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley, Worksop and Huddersfield.

Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

The Rother Link is a scheme that would see the River Rother upgraded to navigable status from Rotherham as far as Killamarsh, where a short canal would link to the Chesterfield Canal to complete a leisure cruising circuit.

Doncaster lock was extended in 1909 and 1910, and improvements were made at Doncaster, Rotherham and Tinsley, but trade declined significantly with the onset of the First World War, as many of the steam trawlers which had previously used coal from the waterway were requisitioned by the Admiralty, and were fuelled elsewhere.

Sheffield urban area

Catcliffe was included under the Rotherham subdivision in the 2001 census but were their own subdivisions for the 2011 census.

Sir Frederick Jones, 1st Baronet

He was managing director of Rother Vale Collieries Ltd which owned several collieries in the area of Treeton near Rotherham, Yorkshire, including Treeton, Fence and Orgreave mines.

St Peter's Church, Letwell

The Church of St Peter is found at the west end of the village of Letwell, near Rotherham, in South Yorkshire.

Ted Bramley

Born in Westminster, while still young, Bramley moved to Detroit with his family, but they returned to London during World War I.

Terror Syndrome

Shortly after the album's release, Bramley departed and was replaced by Annihilator vocalist Dave Padden.

The Angie Pepper Band

She married Radio Birdman co-founder Deniz Tek, and they played together in the short lived Angie Pepper Band whose ranks included a future Hoodoo Guru in Clyde Bramley and a former Saints drummer in Ivor Hay.

Toby Foster

He went to the Barnburgh Junior School, followed by Lacewood Primary School, Dearneside Comprehensive and Wath Comprehensive in Rotherham.

Tony Capstick

First son of Joe Capstick, a rear gunner in the RAF, and his wife, June, nee Duncan,he was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, and spent most of his childhood in Swinton, near Mexborough, also in South Yorkshire, and for over thirty years he was a presenter on BBC Radio Sheffield.

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

TUSC stood candidates in the 2012 by-elections for Manchester Central (garnering 1.3%), Middlesbrough (1.6%) and Rotherham (1.3%).

Tread Softly Stranger

The action takes place in the Yorkshire steel town of Rawborough – Rotherham was used for the extensive location filming – to which native son Johnny Mansell (George Baker) has fled after racking up large gambling debts in London.

United Steel Companies

The company was registered in 1918 and the following year saw a joining together of steel makers Samuel Fox and Company of Stocksbridge; Steel, Peech and Tozer of Templeborough and Ickles in Rotherham; the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company of Scunthorpe; and the coal mining and by-products interests of Rother Vale Collieries at Orgreave, Treeton and Thurcroft.

Vets4pets

Vets4Pets was founded in 2001 by CEO Peter Watson, opening the first practices in Eccleshill and Bramley.


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