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26 unusual facts about Darlington


A. O. Neville

Neville was a notable resident of Darlington and was a regular user of the Eastern Railway which closed a few months before his death.

Bill Davis Racing

By 1998 the #22 team cracked the top ten in the final Winston Cup points standings and matched those results in 1999 (by which time Caterpillar, Inc. was sponsoring the team) and 2000, when the team finally returned to victory lane at the spring Darlington race.

The following week at Darlington they finished in the 9th position, their best of the year.

Blackhawk High School

Football games are played on the original district field, located in Darlington, Pennsylvania.

ChuckleVision

All these feature live performances of the brothers, one filmed at Blackpool, one at Scarborough, one at Darlington, and the other at York.

Darlington, Maryland

Darlington also has several houses of worship, including Harmony Presbyterian Church, Grace Episcopal Church, Darlington United Methodist Church, Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse, and Hosanna AME Church located in historic Berkley, Maryland.

Darlington, South Carolina

After desegregation, Mayo High School became a magnet school called Mayo High School for Math, Science, and Technology.

Darlington, Western Australia

Between Darlington and Boya there are two abandoned quarries: C. Y. O'Connor's 'Fremantle Harbour Works Quarry’, now known as 'Hudman Road Amphitheatre', and the Mountain Quarry which is also called Boya quarry.

David Mach

Recently Mach has produced some permanent public works such as Out of Order in Kingston upon Thames, the Brick Train (a depiction of an LNER Class A4 steam engine made from 185,000 bricks, which can be seen near Morrison's supermarket on the A66 just outside Darlington) and the Big Heids visible from the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Dela Smith

Beaumont Hill in Darlington, County Durham caters for children aged five to 19 with a range of special needs.

Dover Corporation Tramways

The Council authorised the purchase of two secondhand trams from Darlington at a cost of £500, including some spares.

Giuseppe Wilson

He was born in Darlington to a Neapolitan woman Lina Di Francesca and Dennis Wilson, a Briton who worked as an iron and steel worker at the local factory, but had met Lina while serving with the British Army.

Henry Voth

Voth learned the Arapaho language and customs at Darlington, Indian Territory, near Fort Reno, where he worked from June, 1882 to January, 1892.

History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830

In 1821 an Act of Parliament was approved for a tramway between Stockton and Darlington.

This differed from the Stockton and Darlington, as sections of this line employed cable haulage, and only the coal trains were hauled by locomotives.

Joy Grieveson

Elizabeth "Joy" Grieveson (born October 31, 1941) from Darlington, United Kingdom, is a retired track and field athlete.

King's Church Darlington

King's Church, Darlington is an evangelical Church based in Darlington in England.

Major Accident

Major Accident were originally formed in late 1977 in Darlington, though they didn't reach the recording studio until the early 1980s when they recorded an unreleased version of Massacred Melodies (which was later re-recorded to become their first LP) and the single War Boots.

Rotary system

The first exchanges were installed in England at Darlington (10 October 1914) and Dudley (9 September 1916).

Sammy Bland

Also a track announcer at several of the tracks, including Darlington, Rockingham and Richmond International Raceway, Bland's “partner” was Ray Melton.

Stan Boyd

Boyd got to run the team's main #72 car for the final two races of the season finishing a solid 26th just three laps down at Darlington.

He ran the first 2 races of 2003 for EVI with a 16th at Daytona and a 15th at Darlington.

Steve Slater

Born in Darlington, County Durham in 1957, Slater's interest in motor sport began with rallying and rally-cross; marshalling and then competing with cars such as Mini Coopers in the mid-1970s as a hobby in the North of England.

Susan Sutherland Isaacs

Isaacs embarked upon a series of lectures in infant school education at Darlington Training College; in logic at Manchester University; and psychology at London University.

West Park Hospital

West Park is a modern NHS adult mental health unit situated on the north-western outskirts of Darlington in the West Park development.

Whitby Township, Ontario

Whitby Township was one of five townships along Lake Ontario named for towns in northeast England (York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington).


Alex Deuchar

Deuchar was educated at the British International School in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and at Carmel Roman Catholic School in Darlington.

Andrew Common

Common was born in Sunderland, County Durham, the son of Francis James Common (1847–1903), an iron merchant from Darlington, and his wife, Annie Elizabeth (née Walford) of Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Astley and Tyldesley Collieries

In the 1840s, John Darlington leased the mineral rights of land belonging to Astley Hall and sank a pit, Astley Colliery, which subsequently became the site of Gin Pit Colliery.

Bawdeswell

Gurney's Bank was based in Norwich and connected through marriage to Barclays Bank of London with which it merged along with Backhouse's Bank of Darlington and several other Provincial banks in 1896 to form what is now Barclays Bank.

Ben Starosta

After an aborted spell at Darlington he spent a period at Dandenong Thunder in Australia on non-contract terms before signing for Miedź Legnica in 2011.

Bertram Wallis

Between the wars, Wallis also made a number of films, including The Cost of a Kiss (1917), as Lord Darlington; Victory and Peace (1918), as Bob Brierley; The Wandering Jew (1933), as Prince Bohemund; A Dream of Love (1938), as Liszt 'old'; Chips (1938), as Smuggler; A People Eternal (1939), as The English Prince; and Shipbuilders (1944), as Caven Watson.

Bishop Auckland F.C.

Bishop Auckland agreed to play their football at Darlington Road, West Auckland, home of West Auckland Town for the 2008–09, 2009–10 and part of the 2010–11 seasons.

Colin Atkinson

Before joining the staff at Millfield in 1960, he had taught at both Great Ayton and at Darlington.

Colin Todd

Darlington made a poor start to the 2009–10 season, and having picked up just one point from eight league games, Todd agreed with chairman Raj Singh that he would leave the club if they failed to win their ninth game against Grimsby Town.

Darlington Memorial Hospital

Darlington Memorial Hospital provides acute hospital services for people living in southwest Durham which includes the towns of Darlington, Newton Aycliffe, Bishop Auckland, Shildon and Barnard Castle.

David Hardman

At the 1945 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington, defeating the sitting Conservative MP Charles Peat.

Dorsey Dixon

He was one of seven children, all of whom, together with their father, worked at the local textile mill, Darlington Cotton Manufacturing Company.

Fairless

Jack Fairless, manager of the English football club Darlington from 1928 to 1933

Fred Lorenzen

In 1964, Lorenzen won: the Southeastern 500 at Bristol; the Atlanta 500; the Gwen Staley 400 at North Wilkesboro; the Virginia 500 at Martinsville; the Rebel 300 at Darlington; the Volunteer 500; the Old Dominion 500 and the National 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway; six of those races are current "classics" on the Sprint Cup Circuit as of 2013.

George Houghton

On 20 May, it was announced that he was returning to Darlington as chairman and has appointed former Middlesbrough boss Colin Todd as manager.

Hulbert

Robin Hulbert, an association football player for Darlington F.C and Swindon Town.

Hurworth Place

It lies south of Darlington on the northern bank of the River Tees, opposite the village of Croft-on-Tees in North Yorkshire to which it is linked by Croft Bridge, a Grade I listed structure dating from the 14th century, which marks the county boundary.

James Wharton

Since Wharton has visited the country, companies such as Cleveland Bridge in Darlington have directly benefited from Sri Lankan investment: in May 2013, the renowned structural engineering company was awarded a £35 million contract from the Sri Lankan Government to produce 210 bridges for jungle and rural areas across the island country.

Jimmy Greenhalgh

Jimmy Greenhalgh (27 August 1923 – 31 August 2013) was manager of the English football club Darlington from 1966-1968.

Louis Tracy

Around 1884 he became a reporter for a local paper - 'The Northern Echo' at Darlington, circulating in parts of Durham and North Yorkshire; later he worked for papers in Cardiff and Allahabad.

Merrybent

There were 56 glasshouses owned by the Co-operative Society; the girls grew tomatoes, controlled the rats, and were billeted in Darlington.

Princess Python

Zelda DuBois, born in Darlington, South Carolina, developed an act as a snake charmer and circus performer using a twenty-five foot python as a young adult.

Ribblehead

There is, of course, a railway station Ribblehead railway station, and Summer Sunday bus routes 830, 831, 832 from Darlington or Morecombe stop at the station.

St Aidan's Academy

St Aidan's Church of England Academy, a Church of England secondary school in Darlington, County Durham, England

The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo was started by John Hyslop Bell with the backing of the Pease family, largely to counter the conservative outpourings of rival newspapers, the Darlington & Stockton Times and the Darlington Mercury.

Thomas Richardson

Thomas Richardson (Middlesbrough) (1771–1853), investor and director of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and founder of Middlesbrough.

W. L. Lane

William Lawrence Lane more commonly known as W L Lane was secretary manager of the English football club Darlington from 1911-1912.