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unusual facts about Cliffe, Selby



Barlby

Barlby Hilltop contains Hilltop Primary School, a post office, a library, the Craig Bonner memorial centre, a late nineteenth-century church, and Barlby High School which also serves pupils from the surrounding villages of Osgodby, Riccall, Kelfield, Escrick, Cliffe, North Duffield, South Duffield, Hemingbrough and Bubwith.

Bertram Luard-Selby

At the Three Choirs Festival of 1877, Luard-Selby's Kyrie Eleison was premiered at a concert together with two other novelties, Sullivan's In Memoriam and Brahms's German Requiem.

British Sugar

In 1981 the Ely, Felsted, Nottingham and Selby factories closed after a reduction in the allowed sugar quota.

Carole Boyd

Her TV appearances include Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Virtual Murder, Mrs Melly in Bodger and Badger, and she did the voices in Postman Pat since 1991 of all the female characters, Sara Clifton, Dr. Sylvia Gilbertson, Mrs Goggins, Miss Rebecca Hubbard, Julia Pottage, Dorothy Thompson, Lucy Selby, Katy and Tom Pottage, Charlie Pringle, Julian Clifton, Sarah Gilbertson and Bill Thompson (except Granny Dryden who is still voiced by Ken Barrie).

Cliffe Vale, Staffordshire

The railway sidings and buildings at Cliffe Vale were used as the winter quarters for the world's biggest circus, Barnum & Bailey, from 1897 until 1911 when Twyfords expanded and the circus had to move elsewhere.

Cliffe, Richmondshire

At the end of June to the beginning of July 2009, Time Team investigated the Roman remains of Piercebridge Roman Fort and the supposed Roman bridge, and it is now suspected that the remains on the south bank are not a bridge at all, but the footings of a jetty, and that the location of the Roman bridge is unknown.

The Grade II listed George Hotel stands near the road-bridge which crosses the Tees coming from Piercebridge, and is said to be the home of My Grandfather's Clock which "stopped short never to go again when the old man died".

The village is notable for its 17th-century Grade II listed George Hotel, where the story behind the song, My Grandfather's Clock, is said to have originated in 1875.

Clinton Voss

He was a member of Clyde Selby's North Lake Theatre before landing a role in 'The sharp Detective Agency' playing Jackie, younger brother to a character played by Isla Fisher.

Counter-Strike

It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired.

Dagmar Dahlgren

In 1920, Dahlgren became the eighth wife of Norman Selby, known in boxing as Kid McCoy.

Drax Group

The company's principal subsidiary is Drax Power Limited, owner of the Drax power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, the largest coal-fired power station in Western Europe which supplies about 7% of UK electrical consumption.

Flame fougasse

A further variant of the hedge hopper idea was devised for St Margaret's Bay where the barrels would be sent rolling over the cliff edge.

Get Cracking

Released on 17 May 1943 and running at 96 minutes in black and white, the film was written by L. du Garde Peach, Michael Vaughan and John L. Arthur, while the songs were written by George Formby with Fred Godfrey, Fred E. Cliffe and Eddie Latta.

Gilbert Sorrentino

After working closely with Selby on the manuscript of Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964), Sorrentino was an editor at Grove Press from 1965 to 1970, where one of his editorial projects was The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Griffin Higgs

with the support of Archibishop William Laud, he was appointated precentor of St David's on 21 May 1631 (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, i. 316), instituted vicar of Cliffe, Kent, about 1636 (Hasted, Kent, iv. 32), and in 1638 made dean of Lichfield (Le Neve, i. 563), ‘the cathedral of which,’ says Wood, ‘he adorned to his great charge.’ He was also chaplain in ordinary to the king.

Humberside

Paul Bryan, the MP for Howden moved an amendment to the Bill that would have created a county of East Yorkshire, covering the rural area of northern Humberside along with Selby and York (and also Flaxton Rural District), leaving a Humberside including Haltemprice, Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole, whilst Cleethorpes and Grimsby Rural District would have been kept in Lincolnshire.

Jess Cliffe

Jess Cliffe is a Valve Software computer game designer and co-creator of Counter-Strike with Minh Le (aka Gooseman).

Jill the Reckless

Other characters include wealthy clubman Freddie Rooke and dramatist Wally Mason, her childhood friends; her financially inept uncle Major Christopher Selby; her fiancé at the beginning of the book, the M.P Derek Underhill, and his domineering mother, Lady Underhill; Jill's unpleasant Long Island, N.Y. relatives, Elmer, Julia and Tibby Mariner; Drones Club member Algy Martyn, various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types, and, of course, miscellaneous servants.

Jim Cliffe

Cliffe and his wife Melodie are currently writing new projects, including one with an extra-terrestrial theme, inspired by the events of Roswell and Project Blue Book.

Kathryn Selby

For Andrew Olle's memorial service in the Sydney Town Hall on 22 December 1995, Peter Sculthorpe wrote a special arrangement for cello and piano of his 1947 work Parting, which was played by Nathan Waks and Kathryn Selby.

Little Casterton

In June 1968, the Rutland Dinosaur, a specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Cetiosaurus oxoniensis was found in the Williamson Cliffe quarry in the parish.

Lord of the Nutcracker Men

At the beginning of the book Johnny and his family live in London, however Johnny is sent to live with his Aunt Ivy in the town of Cliffe soon after his father enlists.

Louise Cliffe

As a model Cliffe has done many magazine shoots and front covers including Maxim, Bizarre, Front, Loaded, FHM, OK!, Stuff, THE Magazine, Zoo, Nuts, Ice and Switched On.

Marcus Cliffe

Marcus Cliffe (born 1962 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a professional musician, currently the bass player in The Manfreds, a reunion of members of the 1960s pop group Manfred Mann (minus Manfred Mann himself).

Margaret Rawlings

Karen Selby in The Flashing Stream (Charles Morgan), Lyric Theatre September 1938; and appeared in the same role at the Biltmore Theatre New York, April 1939

Marketcetera

Early in 2008, the firm managed to raise $4M through investors Shasta Ventures and Jack Selby, managing director of Clarium Capital.

NICCT

The first lecture under this series was given by the Chief Economist of the ING Banking and Insurance Group, Mr. Mark Cliffe.

North Cliffe

North Cliffe is the home of The White Rose Polo Club which is a member of the Hurlingham Polo Association.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering the seven districts of administrative county of North Yorkshire: Craven, Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby; as well as the unitary authority of City of York.

Pontefract bus station

Buses run from the bus station around the town of Pontefract and as far a field as Leeds, Castleford, Tadcaster, Selby, Doncaster and Wakefield.

RAF Kings Cliffe

Glenn Miller played his last airfield band concert in the big hangar at Kings Cliffe.

Robert Ruark

It is interesting to note that Ruark was booked with Selby because of a desire to use a tracker named Kidogo, who had once hunted with Ernest Hemingway.

Rowntree Halt railway station

Located on the southern edge of the Rowntree's chocolate factory, Rowntree Halt was opened in 1927 by the London and North Eastern Railway to provide a small untimetabled passenger service to the Rowntree factory for workers commuting from areas south of York such as Selby and Doncaster.

SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra

The Australian artists they have performed with include Horst Hoffmann, Myer Fredman, Katherine Selby, Don Hazelwood, Marilyn Meier, Dene Olding, Don Burrows, James Morrison, Geoffrey Collins, Nicole Youl, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Rosario La Spina, Judy Bailey, Chris Shepard, Stephen Mould, and Simon Tedeschi.

Selby Avenue

The street was named after Jeremiah W. Selby, who owned a farm on St. Anthony Hill, the present location of the Cathedral of Saint Paul.

Selby baronets

It was created on 3 March 1664 for George Selby, of Whitehouse, Ryton, County Durham.

Selby Tigers

Formed in 1998, the name Selby Tigers came from Selby Avenue, a main thoroughfare in Saint Paul and a radio broadcast about a Sri Lankan army called the Tamil Tigers.

The band name that the Saint Paul neo-punk quartet the Selby Tigers adopted is an amalgam; a nod to their hometown turf on Selby Avenue, a high-school team mascot, and the aegis of a rebel army.

Selby, Victoria

The town hosts the second station on the narrow-gauge railway to Gembrook (now the Puffing Billy Railway).

Sherburn High School

Sherburn High School is an 11–18 mixed comprehensive school in Sherburn-in-Elmet in Selby, North Yorkshire, England, it has around 1000 pupils.

Sherburn-in-Elmet

During the English Civil War, the village was garrisoned by the Royalists for King Charles I; it was close to their stronghold at Selby and the northern capital of York, and commanded the approaches from both the south and the west.

St Margaret-at-Cliffe

At the other end of the beach there are cottages, two of which were owned by Noël Coward and Ian Fleming.

Sir Peter Ustinov was stationed in the village during WWII and liked it so much that he bought a house on the cliffs after the war.

The house is now owned by Miriam Margolyes, both have hosted functions to raise funds for the new village hall.

The Dalkey Archive

Saint Augustine, on the other hand, appeared in a magical underwater cave and held a conversation with De Selby.

Weather or No

Weather or No is a one-act comic opera, styled a "musical duologue", by Bertram Luard-Selby with a libretto by Adrian Ross and William Beach.


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