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unusual facts about Butchers' Bridge


Butchers' Bridge

Prometheus, running and disemboweled, in punishment for having given knowledge (of fire) to mankind


Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

When officials revealed in 1995 that the Grace Bridge scored a 4 out of 100 for safety and integrity, retired U.S. Congressman Arthur Ravenel, Jr. ran for the South Carolina Senate with a goal of solving the funding problem.

The cover of Darius Rucker's 2010 album Charleston, SC 1966 features a picture of Rucker, a Charleston native, with the Ravenel Bridge in the background.

Bekonscot

Names of shops and other features include humorous puns, such as Lee Key Plumbers' Merchants ('Lee Key' = 'leaky'), Sam and Ella's Butchers ('salmonella') and the Mark Owney Wireless and Gramophone stores ('Marconi').

Benjamin Ireson

The 1941 film adaptation of The Devil and Daniel Webster names Ireson as one of the Jury of the Damned - "Floyd Ireson and Stede Bonnet, the fiendish butchers."

Eagles' Bridge, Sofia

Eagles' Bridge and the junction are located in the immediate proximity of the Vasil Levski National Stadium, the Monument to the Soviet Army, the Borisova gradina park and Lake Ariana, and near Sofia University.

G. W. Bridge

When Cable joined the New Mutants and turned them into X-Force, S.H.I.E.L.D. asked Bridge to investigate the team.

General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge

These, and the shape of the supporting arches when approached from certain directions, have caused the bridge to gain the nickname "The Dolly Parton Bridge", for reasons which should be obvious to the observer.

Kilcormac

The town offers a number of services to the local population including 2 primary schools, a vocational secondary school run by the VEC, a number of local grocery shops, butchers, clothes shop, doctors practice, chemist and an agricultural/hardware store.

Lake Ariana

It is located at the northernmost corner of the park, in the city centre, between the Eagles' Bridge and the national stadium.

Lincolnshire sausage

In 2004, a group of 13 Lincolnshire butchers, led by the large sausage-producing firm of George Adams & Sons, began moves to protect the name of the Lincolnshire sausage, applying for Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status under European Union law.

Pudding Lane

According to the chronicler John Stow, it is named after the "puddings" (a medieval word for entrails and organs) which would fall from the carts coming down the lane from the butchers in Eastcheap as they headed for the waste barges on the River Thames.

Rhiwbina RFC

The "Squirrel" name and logo came about as a result of the newly formed club meeting in the Butchers Arms, an Ansells pub which used the squirrel motif as an emblem.

Staxton

Other businesses in the village consist of the Hare and Hounds pub, which is over 200 years old built to serve passing horse drawn coaches and still receives trade from passing motorists on the A64, a butchers, a garage, a Fish and Chip Restaurant and Takeaway and Shell petrol station situated just outside the village as Staxton Services.

Talmadge Memorial Bridge

The proximity and rivalry between Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah and Brunswick often lead to comparisons between the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge, the Sidney Lanier Bridge, and the Talmadge Memorial Bridge.

The Liberties, Dublin

In its long 78-minute form 'The Liberties' includes 15 short films featuring local butchers, green grocers, boxing clubs, stonemasons, street traders, evangelists, animators, tailors and local residents, including Oscar-winning actor, Brenda Fricker.

Town Hall, Vilnius

Trading on the Town Hall Square was restricted by regulations such as the prohibition for the Jewish butchers to build their butcher’s shops both on the urban market and on Vokiečių (German) Street.

Upper Bridge

Cobblers' Bridge, also known as Shoemakers' Bridge or Upper Bridge crossing the river Ljubljanica in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia

William Charles Angliss

He was educated at Hawkhurst, Kent, and learnt the butchers trade as a youth working first with an uncle in London before migrating to New York.


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