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unusual facts about Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire



Andrew Brough

Brough but became better known as guitarist and vocalist alongside Shayne Carter in Straitjacket Fits, a role he held from 1986 (prior to that band's first release) until 1992, when he left the group following the tour to support their second album, Melt.

Andrew Brough is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Dunedin, New Zealand, who is best known for his work with the New Zealand Music Hall of fame inductees, Straitjacket Fits.

Arkengarthdale

Beyond Tan Hill, the road divides again, heading westward to Brough, south to Keld and south-west to Kirkby Stephen.

Arthur Brough

His daughter Joanna Hutton (died 2002) became the first female curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, for a period in the 1960s - coincidentally just three miles away from the town of Keighley, where Arthur Brough's Are You Being Served? co-star Mollie Sugden was born.

Others included Andrew Jack: Sydney Sturgess, who went on to marry Barry Morse: and Trevor Bannister, who would later act alongside Brough in Are You Being Served?

Ayshea

After being romantically linked with Steve Winwood, Chas Chandler and Rod Stewart, she married Cat Stevens' record producer, Chris Brough, who went on to manage her and produce her records.

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.

Brough Superior

"Superior" was a claim by George Brough of his bike's superiority over all other motorcycles, including the original Brough Motorcycles manufactured by his father, William E. Brough.

The Brough surname, adopted from one of several towns in Britain so called, is originally a form of the word borough (See more at Borough).

Brough Superior Golden Dream

The Dream had optional three or four speed transmission, manufactured to Brough's own design by David Brown Ltd. of Huddersfield.

Burton Constable railway station

Burton Constable railway station was a station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway, and served the villages of Marton and Burton Constable in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations

The Kingston Upon Hull Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations (CMRI), which opened in 1992, is a magnetic resonance imaging centre located in the city of Kingston upon Hull (Hull) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK.

Danny Brough

On 24 March 2010 Brough moved to Huddersfield Giants, and was named club captain during 2012 following the mid-season departure of Kevin Brown.

Dunsfold Aerodrome

On 24 June 1999 British Aerospace announced the closure of Dunsfold as part of a restructuring; Hawk final assembly had been transferred to Warton in 1988, the BAe Sea Harrier production finished in 1998 and the Harrier 2+ production was moved to Brough in 2000.

Edward Balliol

On his retreat from Scotland, Balliol sought refuge with the Clifford family, land owners in Westmorland, and stayed in their castles at Appleby, Brougham, Brough, and Pendragon.

Elleker, Western Australia

In 1921, it was renamed Elleker on the recommendation of a former member of the Albany Road Board who lived in the area, after Ellerker in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Elloughton

It is conjoined with Brough that lies to the south-east, with which it forms the civil parish of Elloughton-cum-Brough.

Ernest Meysey-Thompson

At the 1900 general election, he contested the Buckrose division of the East Riding, where he lost by 91 votes (1.2%) to the Liberal candidate Luke White.

Finningley

The 2,741 metre long runway, currently the second longest in the north of England, was sufficiently large to take even Concorde, and in the period after the closure of the RAF airfield there were several campaigns to turn Finningley into a commercial airport for the unserved South Yorkshire region (as well as Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire).

Hull and East Riding Hospital

The hospital offers private care to patients from a wide geographic area covering East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.

Ian McKechnie

He now lives in Brantingham near Brough and can be found working in Corporate Hospitality at the KC Stadium, the new home of Hull City, on matchdays.

John Fryer Thomas Keane

Upon his return he was given into the hands of a private tutor, an elderly parson in a remote part of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Kirkella, Manitoba

Kirkella was the name of the farm of local pioneer Thomas Watson, which in turn derived its name from Kirk Ella a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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.

Madge Titheradge

Her father was the English-born actor George Sutton Titheradge, and the eleven-year-old Madge had already done stage work with Australia's Brough-Boucicault and Bland Holt companies when the family returned to Britain in 1898.

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.

Mirko Vidović

Due to the practical concerns of religious service of his faith, Vidović soon came into conflict with the contemporary Youth Committee of the SKBiH: his public act of grief for the death of the Pope Pius XII brough him he conviction of ten days in prison.

Motosacoche

They are reputed to have supplied Triumph, Ariel, Matchless and Brough-Superior with engines at times too, first through H & A Dufaux England Ltd, and then, by 1912, Motosacoche Ltd (GB), with Osborne Louis De Lissa.

Newland, Kingston upon Hull

Newland is a suburb of Kingston upon Hull, on the A1079 road, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

North Ferriby United A.F.C.

North Ferriby United Association Football Club is an English association football club based in North Ferriby, near Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Painsthorpe Abbey

It was established at Painsthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire by Aelred Carlyle, a friend of Charles Chapman Grafton, Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac and an inspiration for Alfred Hope Patten.

Quarter session

In some counties there were multiple Quarter Sessions, quite apart from the urban areas: for example, Yorkshire had its North Riding, West Riding, and East Riding; whilst Northamptonshire's Soke of Peterborough was administered separately.

Red Riding

(Yorkshire, Britain's largest county, is broken into three administrative areas known as the RidingsNorth, East, and West.

Roger of Hoveden

From Hoveden's name and the internal evidence of his work, he is believed to have been a native of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Rowley, Massachusetts

The town was named after Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, where Rogers had served as pastor for twenty years before his suspension due to non-conformist Puritan beliefs.

Shane Zaza

He went to Headlands School in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire where he first started acting.

Sheffield to Hathersage Turnpike

It is widely believed that this track follows the line of a Roman road running from Templeborough to the fort at Navio (Brough-on-Noe), but archaeologists have cast doubt on this.

Sykes Churches Trail

The Sykes Churches Trail is a tour of East Yorkshire churches which were built, rebuilt or restored by the Sykes family of Sledmere House in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Temple Lushington Moore

He was educated at Glasgow High School, then from 1872 privately by Revd Richard Wilton in Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The Circle, Kingston upon Hull

During the winter the Circle was a rugby union venue for Hull and East Riding RUFC, before its amalgamation with Ionians RUFC to form Hull Ionians, whom now play at Brantingham, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Thomas Zouch

Though Pitt did not manage this, in 1793 he secured Zouch the valuable rectory of Scrayingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, whereupon the benefice of Wycliffe became vacant.

Vixen 101

Vixen 101 (or Vixen 87 as it was originally known) is a community radio organisation based in the town of Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Yorkshire Museum of Farming

It was originally designed to house a growing collection of farm machinery that had been donated by various farms from North and East Yorkshire to the East Yorkshire Farm Machinery Preservation Society and stored at Burton Constable.

Zachariah Pearson

Zachariah Pearson (died 1891) was an English shipowner, best known for the gift of land to Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, which was used to establish the City's first public park, later known as Pearson Park.


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