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8 unusual facts about Clyde


Clyde North, Victoria

Clyde North is centred on BerwickCranbourne Road and was the original Clyde township before it moved to the area around the railway station to the south.

Clyde, California

In 1917, the United States Shipping Board provided a government loan to the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company to build a company town.

Clyde, New South Wales

Clyde is named for the River Clyde in Scotland and was thought to be a suitable name because a subdivision of land made in 1878 here was called New Glasgow.

Clyde's Restaurant Group

The 1976 hit song "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band was inspired by the spicy happy hour menu at Clyde's of Georgetown.

Clyde's Vegetable Garden Planner

Clyde's Vegetable Garden Planner is an easy-to-use vegetable gardening slide chart for the home and hobby gardener.

Cranbourne, Victoria

There are other privately owned and managed facilities, such as the Briars Equestrian Centre in Clyde.

Some suburbs and townships that surround Cranbourne are Narre Warren South, Devon Meadows, Langwarrin, Clyde, and Junction Village.

Henry Joseph Grayson

Grayson died in Clyde of heart disease leaving a widow but no children.


3Ws Oval

In the park opposite the University, you will find a monument in the shape of a 'W' with busts of each of the famous 3Ws – Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Clyde Walcott and Sir Everton Weekes.

Botanic Gardens railway station

Miller also designed the next station on the line at Kelvinbridge and went on to design the main buildings for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition in nearby Kelvingrove Park and the interiors of the famous Clyde-built ocean liners, the RMS Lusitania in 1907 and RMS Aquitania in 1914.

Canandaigua Outlet

The Canandaigua Outlet is part of the Clyde River watershed which feeds the Seneca River.

Claude Lambie

He helped Clyde achieve an eighth placed finish in the 1891–1892 campaign before briefly leaving football to join the Highland Light Infantry.

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.

Clyde A. Wilson

One of Clyde Wilson's most public cases ended in adultery charges that broke up billionaire Donald Trump's marriage to his first wife, Ivana.

Clyde Engineering

Because of capacity constraints, in the 1990s Clyde leased Australian National Industries' Braemar factory to fulfill its order for FreightCorp 82 class locomotives.

Clyde Lucas

Gloria Wood, a popular singer singer from the 1940s through to the 1970s made her first recordings with the Clyde Lucas band.

Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra

Over the years, such musical notables as Curt Hitch, Bill Rank, Earl Roberts, Doc Ryker, Paul Oconnor, Mike Walbridge, Bob Neighbor, Frank Powers, Bob Lefever, Johnny Haynes, Jimmy and Carrie Mazzy, Moe Klippert, Clyde Austin, Nocky Parker, Fred Woodaman and Spiegle Willcox have attended the event.

David Clyde

Clyde was praised by national publications such as Sports Illustrated and Newsweek prior to the 1973 MLB Draft, and was the consensus among scouts as the best player available in the draft.

In a 2003 interview with the Associated Press, Clyde looked back on his career, recognizing that he was rushed too early, calling his career "a classic case not to handle a young talent", and stating that his case had a "black side" to it but that he made a contribution to the sport.

David Greenhill

He was then sent out to Montrose on a season long loan, but this was cut short, and he returned to Clyde at Christmas due to injury.

Douglas Walker

Peahead Walker (Douglas Clyde Walker, 1899–1970), American football coach

Firth of Clyde

The Firth of Clyde encloses the largest and deepest coastal waters in the British Isles, sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland.

Fishing industry in Scotland

The distribution of the species is therefore limited by the extent of these mud patches, which are found in the Firth of Forth, Moray Firth, the North and South Minches, the Clyde estuary, and the Fladen ground, in the centre of the North Sea.

Great Lakes Steelpan Festival

Some of the guest artist for 2013 include Ellie Mannette, Gary Gibson, Clyde "Lightning" George and Potts & Pans Steelband.

H. Clyde Wilson Jr.

On May 6, 1926 he was born in Proctor, Texas to Houston Clyde Wilson Sr. and Lena B. Purvis Wilson.

Harold Leighton Weller

Formal Conducting studies and mentors include Orien Dalley, and A. Clyde Roller (Interlochen); Robert Fountain, and David Robertson (Oberlin); Haig Yaghjian (Cincinnati Conservatory) and Richard Lert (1964, 1965, 1967; American Symphony Orchestra League; Conductor Institute).

Harry Niles

Herbert Clyde Niles (September 10, 1880 – April 18, 1953) was an outfielder/infielder in Major League Baseball who played for four different teams between the 1906 and 1910 seasons.

Joe Gilroy

Gilroy then joined Clyde managed by John Prentice, playing with Jim McLean, Harry Hood and Davie White, and 44 goals in 106 games saw him sign for Fulham where he joined Johnny Haynes, George Cohen and Allan Clark.

John Clyde Oswald

John Clyde Oswald (1872 - June 22, 1938) was an author, president of the National Arts Club, and the editor of American Printer magazine.

John Dempster

Jocky Dempster, John 'Jocky' Dempster, Scottish footballer who played in the 1970s for Dumfries club, Queen of the South F.C.; he also had short spells with St. Mirren and Clyde F.C.

John Timmons

He played his part in ensuring that the contract for the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 liner went to the Clyde shipyards rather than the Tyne.

Jr. Pac-Man

The game also contains several purely cosmetic changes from Pac-Man: It features a lower-case anti-aliased font for scores and game text, and Clyde has been replaced by a third orange ghost named Tim.

Kelpie

The Kelpies are two 30-metre high steel sculptures in Falkirk, on the Forth & Clyde Canal.

Kevin Cuthbert

He returned to action in the new year, making his first start in a 2–1 win over Clyde on Boxing Day.

Kirn, Argyll

It now forms part of a continuous built up area between Dunoon and Hunters Quay, where the Clyde joins the Holy Loch.

Loch o' th' Lowes, New Cumnock

This would have resulted in part of the waters of the River Nith flowing onto the Clyde rather than the Solway, however the development was never carried to fruition.

Mary Martha Pearson

Miss Smithson of Drury Lane Theatre in the character of Ellen in the Falls of the Clyde (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1823).

Melbourne Harbour Trust

In the 1860s and 70s, agitation for the establishment of a trust on the lines of those on the Thames in London, the Mersey at Liverpool and expeicially that on the Clyde (which was run by Glasgow's leading merchants), came predominantly from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce.

Monash University, Berwick campus

The campus is situated next to the Clyde Road exit ramp on the Princes Freeway.

MV Languedoc

She was bound for the Clyde under the command of her Master, John Thomson, and carrying a cargo of 13,700 tons of fuel oil.

Newark Castle, Port Glasgow

Ferguson Shipbuilders, the last shipyard on the lower Clyde, stands close to the west of the castle, but the shipyards to the east were removed around the 1980s and new landscaped areas formed to the east of Newark Castle, opening up scenic views of the castle and across the Clyde from a new bypass road.

Port Clyde, Maine

Kenneth Noland, one of the best known American color field painters, spent the last several years of his life in Port Clyde.

Prisoner of the Judoon

The Judoon seek out and arrest Androvax; Captain Tybo commandeers a London Metropolitan Police vehicle and aggressively enforces English car stereo volume limits (threatening a human violator with deadly force); and he and his colleagues summarily sentence Clyde and Rani to restriction to Earth as punishment for their interference.

Ray Stevens Christmas: Through a Different Window

This album was re-released by Stevens' own label of Clyde Records in 2004.

RMS Columba

In the early 1970s, her name was honoured in the building of the Anderston Centre regeneration complex - along with that of fellow Clyde steamers the SS Dalraida and SS Davaar - the names of these three vessels were applied to the centre's three residential tower blocks in reference to the Anderston docks which they regularly visited.

Royal Navy surface fleet

At present it consists of two flotillas based at Portsmouth and Devonport, both on the south coast of England, and a flotilla based at the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane in Scotland.

Sport in Glasgow

Prior to this, Glasgow had six other professional clubs: Clyde, which moved to Cumbernauld, plus Third Lanark, Cambuslang F.C, Port Glasgow Athletic F.C., Cowlairs F.C. and Clydesdale F.C., who all went bankrupt.

Stanegate

It is also thought that it was built as a strategic road when the northern frontier was on the line of the Forth and Clyde, and only later became part of the frontier when the Romans withdrew from what is now Scotland.

Swati Sharma

Her acoustic-electric sound is enhanced by effects pedals including the Boss DD-5 Digital Delay, Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion, Boss OC-2 Octave, and Fulltone Clyde Standard Wah.

The Angie Pepper Band

She married Radio Birdman co-founder Deniz Tek, and they played together in the short lived Angie Pepper Band whose ranks included a future Hoodoo Guru in Clyde Bramley and a former Saints drummer in Ivor Hay.

The Mark of the Berserker

As Paul and Clyde take advantage of the pendant's power on their shopping spree, The Kooks' track "Do You Want to See the World?" is played on the soundtrack.

The Stockard Channing Show

Flamboyant Gus Clyde (Max Showalter), a former Broadway entertainer, was the station owner; Alf (Bruce Baum) was a burnout hippie who landed a job as a security guard at the station after the health food store he owned was targeted by The Big Rip-Off; and Mr. Kramer (Jack Somack) was Susan's landlord.

We Dive at Dawn

John Mills prepared for his role as the captain of Sea Tiger by riding on a submarine on a training mission down the Clyde.

Weapon-class destroyer

This problem proved fatal for Battleaxe, when she was unable to manoeuvre quickly enough to prevent herself being rammed by the frigate HMS Ursa in the Clyde in 1962.

What A Nuisance

What A Nuisance was retired to Hyland's property at Clyde, near Cranbourne, Victoria.


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