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5 unusual facts about Bunbury


Bunbury, Cheshire

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Boniface and is built on the highest point of the village.

Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley

Cawley was born at Priestlands, Bunbury, Cheshire, the son of Thomas Cawley by Harriet Bird, daughter of Samuel Bird, of Beeston Hall, Cheshire.

Karratha, Western Australia

GWN7 produces a 30-minute regional news program each weeknight (broadcast from Bunbury) with a newsroom based in the town, covering the surrounding areas.

WAGR Z class

In November 1953 three diesel-hydraulic locomotives commenced operating at Albany, Bunbury and Esperance yards.

West Digital Television

As GWN7 consists of three different stations licensed in Albany/Bunbury, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton, and a fourth licensed to the rest of the state as part of the Remote Commercial Television License scheme, West Digital Television's network is made up of four separate stations.


Alfred de Vigny

Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride, Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825.

Alton Towers railway station

It was used by the Earl of Shrewsbury who had a luggage lift installed to hoist his baggage up to Alton Towers, his gothic revival residence which is situated at the top of nearby Bunbury Hill.

Black-stripe minnow

The black-stripe minnow is found in the South West region of Western Australia between the towns of Augusta and Albany, and from three separate populations near Bunbury, at Melaleuca Park just north of Perth, and at Lake Chandala north of Muchea.

Bunbury Agreement

At the start of the First English Civil War, after a summer of skirmishes in Cheshire, Henry Mainwaring and Mr. Marbury of Marbury Hall for Parliament and Lord Kilmorey and Sir Orlando Bridgeman, son of the Bishop of Chester, for the Royalists agreed to meet on December 23 at Bunbury.

Bunbury Airport

With increasing interest in ultra-light and general aviation, there is a potential for Bunbury Airport to become a major general aviation airport.

Bunbury baronets

It was created on 29 June 1681 for Thomas Bunbury, Sheriff of Cheshire from 1673 to 1674 and the member of an ancient Cheshire family.

Bunbury Bridge

The bridge crossed the Swan River near Claise Brook and was built for passenger and freight traffic to Bunbury on the South Western Railway, and was also part of the Armadale railway line.

Eaton, Western Australia

Eaton is a northeastern suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia, 7 km from the centre of Bunbury on the south shore of the Collie River.

Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester

Sir George Beeston (c.1520-1601) of Beeston House near Bunbury, Crewe, Cheshire, acquired Beeston Castle from the Crown shortly before his death.

Enrique Bunbury

After adopting the nickname of Bunbury, taken from the Oscar Wilde stage play The Importance of Being Earnest, the musician teamed up with Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major number in the Hispanic rock scene.

Pep Blay Enrique Bunbury. Lo demás es silencio. Barcelona, 2007, Plaza & Janés.

Godfrey Blow

More recently the emphasis has been on his art, as his work has increasingly become a featured part of private and public collections in Australia, including Artbank, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, University of Western Australia and the collections of the cities of Bunbury, Albany and Fremantle.

Joshua Kirby Baldrey

Among his best works are: The Finding of Moses, after Salvator Rosa, 1785; Diana in a Landscape, after Carlo Maratti; Lady Rawdon, after Reynolds, 1783; and some subjects after Penny and Bunbury.

Kylie Bunbury

Bunbury was born in Hamilton, Ontario to an Grenadine/Scottish American mother, Kristi, and Guyanese-born Canadian Alex Bunbury, a professional soccer player who won the sixth most caps all time for the Canadian men's soccer team.

Lady Sarah Lennox

Bunbury's divorce on the grounds of adultery was finally granted by Parliament on 14 May 1776.

Lake Clifton, Western Australia

Explorers Dr Alexander Collie and Lieutenant William Preston RN first came across what are now Lakes Preston and Clifton while exploring the coastline between Mandurah and Bunbury in 1829.

Longreach, Queensland

The town is now the home of the Qantas Founders Outback Museum, which includes amongst its displays a decommissioned Qantas Boeing 747-200 aircraft, registration VH-EBQ, "The City of Bunbury." and QANTAS's first jet aircraft VH-XBA (formerly VH-EBA), a Boeing 707, "The City of Canberra.".

Natalie Forrest

Forrest started her career in journalism in 1997 in Albany, Western Australia as a TV journalist for Golden West Network, before moving to Bunbury, Western Australia as Chief of Staff and sports presenter.

Priscilla Bunbury's Virginal Book

The first owner of the book was Priscilla Bunbury (1615–1682), daughter of Sir Henry Bunbury of Little Stanney in Cheshire and his second wife Martha.

South West Slammers

The Slammers were originally based in Bunbury at the Bunbury Sports Centre but are now situated in Eaton at the Eaton Recreation Centre.


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