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21 unusual facts about Enfield


1980 Amherst, Massachusetts water shortage

> Calls were soon received from people as far away as Enfield, Connecticut offering to house the temporarily displaced students.

Amanda Fazio

Fazio joined the Australian Labor Party in February 1977 at the Enfield branch and worked for Australian federal politicians Leo McLeay and Stephen Martin.

António da Silva Porto

Paiva Couceiro arrived in the area of Teixeira da Silva around January 1890, with a contingent of 40 Mozambican soldiers, armed with Snider-Enfield breech-loading rifles, which worried the chief of Bié.

Austin-Healey Sprite

Sprites were imported into Australia in completely knocked down (CKD) kit form and assembled by the Pressed Metal Corporation at Enfield, in New South Wales.

Chitral Bodyguard

Upon its formation the Bodyguard used jezails of Badakhshani manufacture including the Siyah Kamaan and Kotha Kamaan together with the British .577 Snider-Enfield and .577 Martini-Henry.

Enfield, New South Wales

Bob Windle (1944-): Australian swimmer, won the Olympic 1500 m gold at Tokyo in 1964.

The top of the pedestal displays a 105mm French Howitzer gun that was donated to the Australian Government by the French government as recognition of Australia's wartime assistance during World War I. The Memorial was unveiled on 11 October 1924 by the NSW Attorney-General and later by the Premier of NSW from 1927-1930.

Interstate 91

I-91 runs through Windsor, Windsor Locks, East Windsor and Enfield (with several exits in each town) before crossing into Massachusetts at milepost 58.

Ishapore Rifle Factory

In 1904, a Rifle Factory was established at Ishapore, and began production of the Lee-Enfield rifle, which has continued- more or less- until the mid-1980s, and possibly the present.

British calibre Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III, the 7.62×51mm NATO calibre Ishapore 2A1 rifle, and the 7.62mm NATO L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle were manufactured at the Ishapore Rifle Factory, and the factory now manufactures the 5.56mm INSAS rifle assault rifle for the Indian Army, as well as numerous other weapons like Pistol Auto 9mm 1A for both the military and civilian markets.

John Fuller Russell

He held the perpetual curacy of St. James, Enfield, from 1841 to 1854, and in 1856 he was presented to the rectory of Greenhithe, Kent.

Kelvin Okafor

Kelvin Okafor is a British artist who was educated at St Ignatius' College in Enfield and Middlesex University, graduating in Fine Art in 2009.

Martini-Enfield

The Khyber Pass region between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long had a reputation for producing unlicensed, home-made copies of firearms using whatever materials are available- more often than not, railway sleepers, junked motor vehicles, and scrap metal.

Queen Mary's School for Boys, Basingstoke

There was a Combined Cadet Force, (CCF), with a small field gun and ex-British Army Lee-Enfield Mk.3 0.303 rifles stored fairly securely on the premises, together with Bren guns.

Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico

Such weaponry included 400 Enfield rifles, 45 snider rifles, 110 carbines, 87 handguns and one cannon with 200 shells, culminated from hidden caches on Saint Thomas, Curaçao and Haiti.

Sprite Car Club of Australia

Later from 1959, Sprites were shipped to Australia completely knocked down Complete knock down kit form to be assembled at Pressed Metal Corporation, at Enfield, New South Wales in Sydney (a BMC subsidiary located near a major rail interchange).

Thomas Hallifax

Sir Thomas Hallifax (died 1789), of Gordon House, Enfield, Middlesex, was an English politician.

Washington Civil War Association

The costliest item is the Rifled Musket, which for the Union is most often the 1861 Springfield rifle, and for the Confederacy, the 1853 Enfield.

Waziristan

Some of the tribesmen were veterans of the British-organised local militias that were irregular elements of the Indian Army (Pakistan did not exist at this time), and used some modern Lee-Enfield rifles against the Indian forces sent into Waziristan.

William Henry Brewer

William H. Brewer was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and grew up on a farm in Enfield, New York.

William Ramsay Smith

Witnesses also record that he practiced his marksmanship with a .303 rifle on corpses at the mortuary of Adelaide hospital.


A105

A105 road (England), a road in London connecting Canonbury and Enfield

Alan Teulon

Alan Edward Teulon ARICS MBE was born in Enfield, one of the eighth generation descended from Antoine Teulon, a Huguenot refugee from the south of France who came to England and settled in Greenwich in 1689.

Angus Horne Lake

The lake and creek are named for Angus Horne who was born in Enfield, Nova Scotia, in 1880 and came to the North Thompson Valley in 1912 to work on the Canadian Northern Railway surveys.

Anthony Berry

A ceremony was held in Berry's Enfield Southgate constituency on 12 October 2009, the 25th anniversary of the bombing, at which his widow (now Lady Donoughue, wife of Lord Donoughue) and her daughter Sasha unveiled a plaque in his honour at the newly renamed Sir Anthony Berry House in Chaseville Parade, Winchmore Hill.

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Andrew Wright, director of strategic development, told councillors in Enfield in November 2013 that over the past 3 years, the trust had experienced an 11% rise in patient demand.

Brickplayer

Brickplayer was a British construction toy with four sizes of sets (1 to 4) made by J. W. Spear of Enfield in North London, later supplementary sets like a Farmyard version were introduced.

Broxbourne Borough F.C.

The club was formed in 1959 as Somersett F.C. by Colin Plowman and Robert Le Moignan who attended Chace Boys School, in Enfield, and played in the Edmonton Youth Saturday League for the first one two season, finishing bottom, failing to win a match.

Charles Cowden Clarke

Charles Cowden Clarke (15 December 1787 – 13 March 1877), English author and Shakespearian scholar, was born in Enfield, Middlesex.

Economy of the Halifax Regional Municipality

Regional airline Air Nova, which became a part of Air Canada Jazz, was headquartered in Enfield.

Enfield Highway

A public library, built with the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Foundation was opened Enfield Highway in 1910.

Enfield No. 2

Albion Motors in Scotland made the Enfield No 2 Mk I* from 1941 to 1943, whereupon the contract for production was passed onto Coventry Gauge & Tool Co.

Enfield Poltergeist

The Enfield Poltergeist was the name given to claims of poltergeist activity at a council house in Brimsdown village, borough of Enfield, England during the late 1970s.

Enfield Shaker Historic District

The Enfield Shaker Museum in Enfield, New Hampshire, and its historic district

Enfield Town F.C.

This followed the chairman of Enfield FC withdrawing from an outline agreement with the Supporters' Trust which would have seen the Trust take over the running of a debt-free club and receiving £100,000 from money from the sale of Southbury Road which was held in an escrow account by Enfield Council.

Freight quality partnerships

Some of these are small geographically, i.e. covering only one business estate, e.g. Brimsdown Business Area in Enfield, whilst others cover larger areas, such as West London .

Ian Gilzean

Ian Roger Gilzean (born 10 December 1969 in Enfield) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento in Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825).

Julie Enfield

Julie Enfield is the daughter of the Canadian M.P. and Q.C. barrister Frank A. Enfield.

Enfield lived in Italy from 1983 to 1996, where she worked in the fashion industry alongside Giorgio Armani, Franco Moschino, and Gianni Versace.

Kevin Patterson

Kevin the Teenager, a character created and played by the British comedian Harry Enfield

Lester H. Clee

Clee was born in 1888 in Thompsonville, Connecticut to Frederick and Margaret (Kelley) Clee.

Main North Road

From the Adelaide city centre, it passes through the Adelaide Parklands and the suburbs of Thorngate, Medindie, Medindie Gardens, Nailsworth, Prospect, Sefton Park, Blair Athol and Enfield before reaching the major intersection at Gepps Cross.

New South Wales D55 class locomotive

The members of this class spent most of their days attached to depots at Enfield, Goulburn, Harden, Junee and Cowra operating on the Illawarra and Main South lines.

Norbert Smith – a Life

Enfield would later play an affectionate parody of Mandela in his sketch show Harry & Paul.

Oasis Academy Brightstowe

Oasis Community Learning sponsor ten other academies across the UK, including South Bristol, Grimsby, Immingham, Enfield, Salford, Croydon and Southampton East and West.

Oasis Trust

Further "Church.co.uk" network churches have developed running alongside the communities of the Oasis Academies in Salford, Oldham, Brightstowe, Bristol, Enfield, Southampton (Lord's Hill & Mayfield), Immingham and Wintringham.

Phillip Cottrell

Phillip was born in Enfield, United Kingdom, but he grew up in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, where he was a pupil at Cheshunt School.

Remington Model 30

The Remington Model 30 is a US sporting rifle of the inter-war period based on the military P14/M1917 Enfield rifle action, which was manufactured for the British and US governments during World War I.

Royal Enfield

Royal Enfield production, based in Tiruvottiyur, Chennai, continues and Royal Enfield is now the oldest motorcycle brand in the world still in production with the Bullet model enjoying the longest motorcycle production run of all time.

Sony Centre

On the night of 8 August 2011, the Sony distribution centre in Enfield, London was destroyed in an arson attack during the 2011 England riots.

Sun Yaar Chill Maar

He is shown to be a bodybuilding Enfield-riding rural boy whose brain seems to only work if women are involved.

UnoAErre

The company passed from the hands of families Gori-Zucchi to Morgenf Enfield (Deutsche Bank Group) in the mid 90, was regained by Zucchi family with the help of a group of banks.

Warburtons

In October 2003, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh opened Warburtons eleventh bakery in Enfield, North London.

Yellowroot

It was grown by Bowles in his garden at Myddelton House, near Enfield, Middlesex, and gardens that currently cultivate it include the Savill Garden at Windsor, Berkshire and the Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

Yukon Field Force

Authorized on 21 March 1898 and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dixon Byron Evans of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, the force consisted of 5 Staff, 16 Royal Canadian Dragoons, 49 men of the Royal Canadian Artillery and 133 men of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Infantry armed with Lee-Enfield .303 rifles, two Maxim guns and two bronze seven-pounder cannons.