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13 unusual facts about Didsbury


Alydeed

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

Didsbury School of Education

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

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.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills

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

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.

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.

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.

The Membranes

Sharing a house in West Didsbury (in the garden of which Dinosaur Jr recorded their "Freak Scene" video), The Membranes created a scene and got themselves back to their leanest and meanest since Mark Tilton left.


Barlow Moor

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

Didsbury railway station

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

East Didsbury

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

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.

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.

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.

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.