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2 unusual facts about Brook


Brook, Surrey

Brook Cricket Club re-structured over the winter of 2012/13 and re-entered league cricket in the I'Anson Cricket league, a very old cricket league.

SS Eider

The bigger lifeboats located at Brook and Brighstone were launched, but they had much farther to travel.


1992 Grand National

The commentary team for the twenty-second consecutive year was John Hanmer who covered the first four fences, Julian Wilson who covered the fence before Becher's Brook until Valentine's Brook before handing back to Hanmer who covered the field back onto the racecourse proper, before handing over to the anchor commentator, Peter O'Sullevan who covered the start, midway point and finish of the race.

A3055 road

The section from Brook to Freshwater Bay is a clearway, so stopping on this section is only permitted at the five car parking areas, of which one is free, and the rest are operated with a charge to those who are not members of the National Trust.

Beau MacMillan

At 16 years old, MacMillan started working at Crane Brook Tea Room in Carver.

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).

Blackburn River

The name is a tautology, since "burn" is a Lowland Scots/Northern English word referring to a small river or large brook.

Blind Brook High School

In the summer of 2007, Blind Brook was the site of the 2007 Empire State Games Men's Soccer matches, which helped further show the community the new and state-of-the-art facilities Blind Brook has to offer.

Bournville School

The school's badge depicts a Griffin (or Gryphon) segreant, wearing a mortarboard cap and brandishing a rolled Academic degree and draws its imagery from the school's proximity to the nearby traditional watercourse of Griffin's Brook, sadly now piped underground for most of its length.

Bowling Brook

He was given the name of his trainer's Bowling Brook Farm at Middleburg in Carroll County, Maryland.

Bradshaw Brook

Starting life as Cadshaw Brook draining a valley named Green Lowe Clough on Turton Moor, the brook feeds the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir and Wayoh Reservoir (the latter also fed by Blackstone Brook and Whittlestone Head Brook).

Brook furniture rental

In 2006, Brook Furniture Rental added a new distribution center and showroom in Lanham, Maryland.

Brook Mays

In 2003 First Act Inc., a competitor that sells its instruments at mass market retailers, sued Brook Mays, and was awarded $16.7 million.

Brook Park, Ohio

Coyne is most known for the 2001 Cleveland Hopkins International Airport runway extension deal with then Mayor of Cleveland Michael R. White, which seceded Brook Park land including homes and the International Exposition Center (IX Center) to Cleveland, Ohio in exchange for NASA Glenn Research Center and 10 years of tax revenues from the IX Center.

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.

Catskill Mountain Railroad

On October 4, 2012, Ulster County Executive Michael P. Hein announced in his 2013 budget a plan to dismantle 32 miles of railroad in Ulster County to be replaced by a trail, leaving only the Phoenicia-Cold Brook segment, and ending Kingston operations.

Colne Brook

Colne Brook then enters the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, passes Wraysbury railway station then adjoins lakes made of former gravel pit at Wraysbury which make up a Site of Special Scientific Interest, before running into the River Thames between the M25 Runnymede Bridge and nearby Bell Weir Lock.

Danny Michel

He has also produced albums for other artists including Leeroy Stagger, Belle Starr, Damhnait Doyle, Ayla Brook, Nabi Loney, Andy McGuire, Jeffery Straker and others.

Dummy, the Witch of Sible Hedingham

Thrown into a nearby brook as an "ordeal by water", he was also severely beaten with sticks before eventually taken to a workhouse in Halstead where he died of pneumonia.

Eddington, Kent

Eddington is approximately 13 metres above sea level, lying above mainly London Clay with some head Brickearth next to Plenty Brook; however to the east this changes to Tertiary deposits of the Thanet, Oldhaven and Woolwich beds.

Far Brook School

Far Brook School is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational day school located in the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey, United States, serving students in nursery through eighth grade.

Forest Brook High School

In June 2001 Tropical Storm Allison damaged Forest Brook High School and NFISD officials temporarily closed the school.

Forty Hall

An avenue of trees runs down the hill from the house into the valley of the Turkey Brook, also known locally as Maidens Brook.

Henry Burbeck

Lucy was a descendant of Gov. William Bradford (1590-1657) of the Mayflower and Jonathan Rudd who was married, in a legendary ceremony, at Bride Brook in what is now East Lyme, Connecticut in December 1646.

International Centre for Theatre Research

Brook had previously been sponsored for limited periods by Jean-Louis Barrault or the RSC (at the Roundhouse).

John S. Toll

While he was there, SUNY@Stony Brook, one of four SUNY centers created by then-governor Nelson Rockefeller (briefly Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford), and, until recently, the only four allowed to call themselves "universities", grew to more than 17,000 students from a handful who started their academic careers before the campus was even finished, at the now-defunct State University of New York on Long Island (SUCOLI).

Kathy Troutt

Later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon where Troutt played body-double for Brook Shields.

Kilkenny, New Hampshire

The Willard Bowl north of Mount Waumbek, drained by Garland Brook, was considered as a site for development of a ski area in 1971, when it was owned by former governor Hugh Gregg.

Lyndon Brook

In 1951, Brook was asked by Laurence Olivier to join his company at the St James’s Theatre in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.

Michael Settonni

Settonni served as Communications Director for the Mayoral campaign of former Cleveland mayor Jane Campbell, and as Chief Campaign Strategist for the successful Mark Elliott for Mayor of Brook Park campaign, as well as dozens of other local area Mayor, Judicial and School Levy Campaigns.

Mollidgewock Brook

The brook flows west and north through swampy areas and past low hills in the township of Cambridge before joining the Androscoggin River in the town of Errol.

Mountain Brook, Alabama

Mountain Brook is the hometown of actors Wayne Rogers, Kate Jackson, and Courteney Cox, and former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr, and Natalee Holloway, a high school graduate who disappeared while on a graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005, in a well-publicized missing persons case.

Oliverian Brook

The brook passes through a flood control reservoir known as Oliverian Pond before entering the town of Haverhill, where it passes through the villages of East Haverhill and Pike before reaching the Connecticut River near Haverhill village.

Phillips Brook

Phillips Brook rises in the township of Erving's Location, New Hampshire in the vicinity of Kelsey Notch and flows south through Odell, Millsfield and Dummer to join the Upper Ammonoosuc River in the town of Stark near the village of Crystal.

Pine Brook, Minnesota

Pine Brook is located in Wyanett Township and Springvale Township.

RAF Coningsby

On 17 August 1953 52 year old Air Vice-Marshal William Brook, the AOC of 3 Group, took off from the base in a Gloster Meteor, and crashed into a Dutch barn at Bradley, Staffordshire.

River Blakewater, Lancashire

In addition to the aforementioned Knuzden Brook, the waters of the Blakewater are swelled by Little Harwood Brook (coming from Sunny Bower), Audley Brook (from the region of Queen's Park to the confluence near Darwen Street) and Snig Brook (which rises near Lammack and runs through Corporation Park).

River Itchen, Warwickshire

The infant river is fed by several small brooks and skirts the village of Bishop's Itchington (to which it gives its name) before passing below the former Great Western Railway London to Birmingham railway (now operated by Chiltern Trains).

Saddle Brook, New Jersey

Saddle Brook adopted its current name on November 8, 1955, replacing Saddle River Township.

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

Shortly after the tragedy, Hindley and Brady move with Hindley's grandmother Ellen Maybury, to a new council house: 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, on the Hattersley estate near Hyde.

Shire Brook

The Brook also marks the boundary between the Ecclesiastical provinces of York and Canterbury.

Sir Christopher Lowther, 3rd Baronet

He spent the remainder of his life dwelling with his father-in-law or in his house on Brook Street, Holborn.

Spencer Brook, Minnesota

Spencer Brook is an unincorporated community in Spencer Brook Township, Isanti County, Minnesota, United States.

Thomas Spert

He married thirdly Mary Fabian, the daughter of John Fabian (nephew of the chronicler, Robert Fabyan) and Anne Waldegrave, by whom he had a son, Richard Spert, who married Grissell Salkell of King's Wood,Wiltshire, and a daughter, Anne Spert, who married firstly Thomas Brook and secondly John Skott.

Tom Brook

The longevity of the series has also allowed Brook to report from some of the world’s top film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto.

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

In the painting Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, there is a large Chinese porcelain bowl in the foreground (standing on a Turkish carpet), and Brook uses this to introduce the subject of trade with China.

Wokefield

The Burghfield Brook lies at the northern border of Wokefield Common, a notable feature of this watercourse is Pullens Pond, formed where this brook is damned by a forest access road within the common.

Wyman's Brook

Before the brook becomes Pittville Lake, it flows through Whaddon (another area of Cheltenham).

Wymans Brook is a district in the north-west of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, named after the small river which flows through the district.


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