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8 unusual facts about Bridgeton


A749 road

The road approaches Bridgeton and it continues past the B763 road as Dalmarnock Road, although road signs suggest Dunn Street heading west is the A749 when this is incorrect.

Bridgeton Central railway station

Bridgeton Central railway station was located in Glasgow, Scotland and served the Bridgeton area of that city.

Bridgeton, Missouri

The populated areas of the city are located between Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and St. Charles.

Dalmarnock

It is bounded by the Clyde to the south and east, Parkhead to the north, and Bridgeton at Dunn Street to the north west.

Don Greenlees

Born in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Greenlees started his professional career with nearby St. Mirren where he gained a reputation as "one of the best half-backs in Scotland".

Glasgow Green

When the Reform Act of 1832 passed in Parliament, increasing the electorate from 4,329 (1820) to 65,000 (1832), a large demonstration of over 70,000 people was held on the Green with a procession lead around the park by a Bridgeton band.

Patrick Fairbairn

After that time, he pastored churches in Bridgeton, Glasgow, and Salton, East Lothian.

Walcheren Barracks

A former Territorial HLI Battalion in Glasgow, the 7th (Blythswood) Battalion, the Highland Light Infantry was based at 69 Main Street, Bridgeton (now demolished and replaced by a tenement), it was converted to Royal Artillery in 1938, becoming the 83rd AA Regiment.


100.3 The Beat

KMJM-FM, a radio station (100.3 FM) licensed to Bridgeton, Missouri, United States

Alexander Scott

Alexander MacCallum Scott (1874–1928), British Member of Parliament for Glasgow Bridgeton, 1910–1922

Billy Collings

Billy Collings was playing snooker in Bridgeton YMCA when he was approached by Davie McLachan to play for Cambuslang Rangers in the West of Scotland junior league.

Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden

As lord advocate he had been engaged in 1728 in the prosecution of James Carnegie of Finhaven, who had been grossly insulted during one of the usual convivial parties at a funeral by a Mr. Bridgeton, and, trying to stab Bridgeton, had killed Lord Strathmore.

James Loch

Lock married, first, in 1810, Ann, youngest daughter of Patrick Orr of Bridgeton, Kincardineshire, by whom, among several other children, he had sons, Granville Gower Loch and Henry Brougham Loch, who was a G.C.M.G. and G.C.B., governor of the Cape, and high commissioner for South Africa.

KMJM

KMJM-FM, a radio station (100.3 FM) licensed to serve Bridgeton, Missouri, United States

KMJM-FM

On October 2, 2010, WSDD moved its transmitter to Overland, Missouri and its city of license to Bridgeton, Missouri.

May 26–31, 2013 tornado outbreak

The tornado continued causing damage in residential areas before crossing the Missouri River into St. Louis County and Earth City, Bridgeton, and the northern side of Maryland Heights as it moved along Interstate 70 near its intersection with Interstate 270.

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic church on Broad (New Jersey Route 49) and Lawrence Streets in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.

Samuel Carpenter

In the record of the Race Street Friends' Meeting of Philadelphia is preserved a certificate from the "Friends' Monthly Meeting at Bridgeton" in the Island of Barbados dated "23rd, 6 mo., 1683" (not June but about August on the current calendar) attesting to the good standing of Samuel Carpenter.

U.S. Route 67

Lindbergh, named for aviator Charles Lindbergh, continues north through Frontenac, Ladue, Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights, Bridgeton, Hazelwood and Florissant until it reaches Lewis & Clark Boulevard (Route 367).

WNJB

WNJB-FM, a radio station (89.3 FM) licensed to Bridgeton, New Jersey, United States


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