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unusual facts about Church of St James, Didsbury



Alydeed

In September 2004, after producing 221 winners and 11 stakes winners, Alydeed was sold to Peaceful Valley Stud in Didsbury, Alberta.

Barlow Moor

Barlow Moor was in early times an area of waste between Didsbury and Chorlton-cum-Hardy and was named after Barlow.

Church of St James, Cameley

This arms represents evidence of the link between Cameley and Temple Cloud to the Knights Templar.

These remained hidden behind whitewash until the 1960s leading John Betjeman to describe it as "Rip Van Winkle's Church".

The Church of St James is a redundant church in Cameley, Somerset, England, dating from the late 12th century.

The tower, probably from the 15th century with 19th-century restoration, is built of red Mendip stone which contrasts with the local blue lias limestone of the rest of the church.

Church of St James, Didsbury

Pevsner found the interior "odd, with early seventeenth century fabric, but later additions and alterations have changed its character".

Church of St James, Winscombe

The Church of St James in Winscombe, Somerset, England, has 12th- or 13th-century origins but the present building dates from the 15th century.

There are no records remaining of the Norman church on the site, but there evidence of the building of the church which was consecrated by Bishop Jocelin on 26 August 1236.

Didsbury railway station

The station was located on Wilmslow Road, just north of the junction with Barlow Moor Road and opposite Didsbury Library.

Didsbury School of Education

The Didsbury College of Education, Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, England, is a campus of Manchester Metropolitan University.

East Didsbury

East Didsbury Metrolink station, a light rail stop in Didsbury, England; the terminus of Metrolink's South Manchester Line.

Gemma Merna

Merna was born in Cleethorpes, but when she was one year old she moved to Didsbury from where both her parents came.

George Hourani

George Hourani was born into a prosperous British family of Lebanese Christian extraction in Didsbury, Manchester.

Gordon Kesler

He won the Olds-Didsbury electoral district defeating Stephen Stiles of the Progressive Conservatives and Lloyd Quantz of Social Credit and three other candidates.

Henry B. Atkins

He won the vacant Didsbury electoral district, defeating W.L. Tolton of the Conservative Party by a plurality of 150 votes.

Hetley Price

He was then successively Secretary to the SCM; Rector of Didsbury; a Canon Residentiary at Manchester Cathedral and, his final post before elevation to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Manchester.

Liverpool St James railway station

The station is located at the Parliament Street and St. James' Place junction, opposite St James' Church.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills

Wildrose candidate Bruce Rowe was elected in the 2012 provincial election.

Parrs Wood High School

Parrs Wood High School is a specialist technology state comprehensive secondary school and higher education college situated in East Didsbury, Manchester, England, specifically, behind Parrs Wood Entertainment Complex off of Wilmslow Road.

Peter Dudley

Dudley was openly homosexual, and in 1982 he was observed exposing himself to another man in a public toilet in Didsbury, and was charged with importuning.

Qasim Akhtar

Akhtar attended Parrs Wood High School in Didsbury and later went on to complete his education at Cheadle & Marple Sixth Form College.

Rocky View County, Alberta

Rocky View is currently represented in the Alberta Legislature by MLA Rob Anderson in the riding of Airdrie, Bruce McAllister in Chestermere-Rocky View and Bruce Rowe in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills.

Rose Hill Marple railway station

The latter would provide an Eastern extension from the proposed Western link into Stockport town centre from Didsbury, linking together many towns in the borough along the Goyt and Mersey rivers.

Shirley Institute

The Shirley Institute was established in 1920 as the British Cotton Industry Research Association at The Towers in Didsbury, Manchester as a research centre dedicated to cotton production technologies.

Stephen Stiles

Stiles first ran for the Progressive Conservatives in the February 1982 by-election in Olds-Didsbury that saw Gordon Kesler from the Western Canada Concept elected.

The Daily Service

When the Religion and Ethics department of the BBC moved to Manchester, its new base became Emmanuel Church, Didsbury.

The Daily Service is a short Christian church service, often from Emmanuel Church in Didsbury, Manchester, England, broadcast every weekday morning between 9.45 and 10.00 by BBC Radio 4 (long wave only) and on the Radio 4 DAB breakout.

Westminster St James

The creation of the parish followed the building of the Church of St James, Piccadilly in 1684 and the parish was also known by the name St James Picadilly.

In 1684 the Church of St James, Piccadilly was constructed which improved the case for providing a new parish.


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