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4 unusual facts about Bredon


Bredon

Antarctic explorer Raymond Priestley was born in the village and pieces relating to his life are in Tewkesbury Borough Museum.

The church contains many interesting monuments, including several to members of the interrelated Reed, Copley and Parsons families.

Pinnacle

In the 12th-century Romanesque two examples have been cited, one from Bredon in Worcestershire, and the other from Cleeve in Gloucestershire.

Quarter marathon

There is also a yearly Quarter Marathon event held in Bredon, Worcestershire since September 2012 organised by local race organisers.


Anne Bredon

Anne Bredon (born 1930 in Berkeley, California as Anne Loeb) is an American folk singer, best known for composing the song Babe I'm Gonna Leave You while she was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1950s.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Whilst a student at UC-Berkeley in around 1960, Anne Bredon appeared on a live folk-music radio show The Midnight Special on radio station KPFA, on which she sang "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You".

Rick Besoyan

Upon his return, Besoyan joined the Bredon-Savoy Light Opera Company, where he performed the role of Ko-Ko in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

Topological space

Bredon, Glen E., Topology and Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics), Springer; 1st edition (October 17, 1997).


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