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14 unusual facts about Gloucester


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The Taree, New South Wales and Gloucester, New South Wales Railway Centenary 2013 and Sydney Great Train Expo 2013 at Central Station.

Berni Inn

By 1970 the chain comprised 147 hotels and restaurants, including the New Inn at Gloucester, the Mitre at Oxford, and several in Japan.

Clare Clifford

She attended Selwyn Independent School for Girls in Matson, Gloucester, then studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and appeared on stage at the Oxford Playhouse and the National Theatre.

Fred G. Barrett

Fred G. Barrett (October 2, 1914-July 3, 1984) was a municipal politician who served as mayor of the city of Gloucester, Ontario from 1982 until his death from cancer at the age of 69.

George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton

Brodrick married on 1 May 1752 Albinia, the daughter of the Hon Thomas Townshend by Albinia (daughter of John Selwyn of Matson, Gloucestershire).

Gloucester City

Gloucester City, Ontario: a former city in Ontario, amalgamated into the City of Ottawa in 2001.

Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial

Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial (also known as: "Man at the Wheel" statue or "Fishermen's Memorial Cenotaph") is an historic memorial cenotaph sculpture on South Stacy Boulevard, near entrance of Stacy Esplanade in Gloucester, Massachusetts, built in 1925.

Massachusetts Route 127

It crosses the tracks one more time (next to Sweeney Park) as it heads into Gloucester.

Massachusetts Route 133

Route 133 passes the northern end of Route 22 near the crossing of the Essex River before Route 133 heads into Gloucester.

Sanctuary Knocker

Examples of Sanctuary Knockers can be found on Durham Cathedral, the St. Nicholas church in Gloucester and the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sweigert

In 2007, the Biographical Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) issued a report indicating that the game was played in Gloucester, New Jersey, and Philadelphia manager Bill Sharsig used four local players (Sterling, Sweigert, Stafford, and McBride) in the game.

The Second Voyage of the Mimi

It was purchased in the early 1980s by Peter Marston and was kept moored in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

William Timym

These include a statue of Blue Peters dog Petra, a lion bust at Gloucester's Nature in Art museum, a lifesize Sumatran white rhino at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Canterbury and a 15 ft elephant fountain at Saint Louis Zoo.

World Ringette Championships

The first World Ringette Championships were held in Gloucester, Ontario in 1990.


A48 road

From Gloucester, the A48 runs through the villages of Minsterworth, Westbury-on-Severn, connects to a link road to Cinderford in the Forest of Dean then through Newnham, Blakeney and bypassing the town of Lydney (the bypass was built in the 1990s) on the west bank of the River Severn.

Ali James

A product of the Gloucester Rugby Academy, he moved to Newbury before rejoining Gloucester Rugby in the summer of 2007.

Andi Gladwin

The conference is held in January every year in Gloucester and has featured dozens of expert magicians including Allan Ackerman, Wayne Houchin, Aaron Fisher, Lee Asher, Kostya Kimlat, Chad Long, John Archer, Tom Stone and would like to run LADS as its the best convention in the UK.

Baron Ellenborough

In 1844 he was created Viscount Southam, of Southam in the County of Gloucester, and Earl of Ellenborough, in the County of Cumberland.

Bertie Kirby

His father, Henry Kirby, was a 51 year-old gardener, born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire and his mother, Fanny, was aged 54 and had been born in Gloucester.

Bishop of Bristol

Though he took part in the trial of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, and served also on a commission to try Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, in general he took no active part in the proceedings on the score of heresy.

Carolyn Watkinson

She was a soloist in Bach's St. John Passion at Gloucester Cathedral in a performance shown on BBC TV on Good Friday in 1989.

Curricabark River

Curricabark River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, northwest of Cootera Hill, southeast of Nundle and flows generally southeast, before reaching its confluence with the Barnard River, northwest of Giro, north of Gloucester.

Earl of Clare

The Norman family who took the name 'de Clare' became associated with the peerage as they held, at differing times, three earldoms (Gloucester, Pembroke, and Hertford).

Edward Chamberlayne

He was first educated at Gloucester, then entered St Edmund Hall, Oxford, at Michaelmas 1634, proceeded B.A. on 20 April 1638, and M.A. 6 March 1641.

Front Runner

The sailboat was produced in three different places: Gloucester, Virginia, Irvington, Virginia, and Hollywood, Maryland.

Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester

The most detailed account of the Earl of Gloucester's death at the Battle of Bannockburn is the chronicle Vita Edwardi Secundi.

Gilbert, Count of Brionne

Through these sons Gilbert was ancestor of the English house of de Clare, of the Barons FitzWalter, and the Earls of Gloucester (see Earl of Gloucester) and Hertford (see Earl of Hertford).

Gloucester Harbour Trustees

The Gloucester Harbour Trustees are the Competent Harbour Authority (CHA) for the tidal part of the River Severn from the Gloucester weirs (Llanthony & Maisemore) down to just below the Second Severn Crossing, on the Welsh side of the Severn Estuary (north of Denny Island) from the Second Severn Crossing as far as Goldcliff, and on the River Wye up to its tidal limit (Bigsweir).

Gloucester Road tube station

The planning of the line encouraged the local land owners, including Lord Kensington, to extend Cromwell Road westwards and the opening of Gloucester Road station, stimulated rapid residential development in the surrounding area.

Gloucester Road, London

Additionally, Gloucester Road is the residence (in the form of 25B Froxbury Court) of the fictional barrister Horace Rumpole of John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey series of short stories.

Gloucester Skating Club

It is home to the Gloucester Skating Club and the Canadian Academy of Skating Arts, a program started by Canadian Hall of Fame Coach, Peter Dunfield.

Godfrey Goodman

He made rapid progress in the Church, and was made successively prebend of Westminster in 1607; Rector of West Isley, Berkshire, in 1616; Rector of Kinnerton, Gloucester; Canon of Windsor in 1617; Dean of Rochester in 1621; and finally Bishop of Gloucester, 1624-1655.

Hereford Road Skew Bridge

The line opened to traffic on 27 July 1885, when the existing Ledbury station was renamed Ledbury Junction, the Ledbury and Gloucester line curving away from the Worcester and Hereford Railway line on an embankment immediately west of the station.

Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford

Gloucester's liberty of Glamorgan was declared forfeit, and confiscated by the crown, as was Hereford's of Brecon.

Hurffville

Hurffville, New Jersey, an unincorporated area within Washington Township, Gloucester County

International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication

It is based on York Street, between Gloucester Place and Baker Street (both part of the A41), in Marylebone in the north-west of central London.

Jani Lauzon

In 2012, she performed a dual role as Cordelia and the Fool in an all-aboriginal production of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, alongside a cast that also included August Schellenberg as Lear, Tantoo Cardinal as Regan, Billy Merasty as Gloucester and Craig Lauzon as Kent.

Joseph Phillimore

Phillimore was appointed king's advocate in the court of admiralty on 25 Oct. 1834, and chancellor of the diocese of Worcester and commissary of the deanery of St Paul's Cathedral in the same year; chancellor of the diocese of Bristol in 1842, and judge of the consistory court of Gloucester in 1846.

Longlevens

Wotton St. Mary (Without), save for a few acres given to Barnwood and Churchdown, was included with parts of Barnwood, Churchdown, and Hucclecote in the new civil parish of Longlevens, north-east of Gloucester.

Marlon Devonish

On 16 July 2013, Devonish has been bought in as spirit coach at Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester.

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery, Woolwich, New Jersey, listed on National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester County, New Jersey

Oswald Samson

In-between his university appearances, Samson had hit the only century of his first-class cricket career for Somerset in the match against Gloucestershire at Gloucester; the century, 105, came after Gloucestershire had been dismissed for just 61, and Beaumont Cranfield and Len Braund bowled unchanged through the two Gloucestershire innings.

Premiership Rugby Sevens Series

Worcester Warriors 7s and Gloucester 7s qualified from Group A, played at Kingsholm on Thursday 1 August; Newcastle Falcons 7s and Leicester Tigers 7s qualified from Group B, played at Franklin's Gardens on Friday 2 August; and Harlequins 7s and Saracens 7s qualified from Group C, played at Allianz Park on Saturday 3 August.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Richard III of England (1482–1485), Duke of Gloucester prior to his accession to the throne

Robert Fitzhamon

Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was Lord of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.

Saint Aldate

He is mentioned in the Sarum and other martyrologies; his feast occurs in a Gloucester calendar (14th-century addition); churches were dedicated to him at Gloucester and Oxford, as well as a famous Oxford street: St Aldate's, Oxford and a minor street in Gloucester.

Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes

In the 1970 general election, she defeated John Diamond in the constituency of Gloucester; Diamond was the only cabinet minister to be defeated in the election.

Samuel Daukes

In 1836 he married Caroline Sarah White of Long Newnton (then Wilts, now Glos) and by 1840 they were apparently living at Barnwood, on the edge of Gloucester.

Shefford Woodlands

Shefford Woodlands developed where the road linking Hungerford and Wantage (later a turnpike, now the A338) crossed the Roman road of Ermin Street linking Silchester and Gloucester.

Siege of Gloucester

The modern Gloucester Day has recently included a parade by the Mock Mayor of Barton, an office created after Barton was moved outside of the limits of the city following the restoration of Charles II.

Simon McTavish

In 1817, at Marylebone Church, she married Major Charles Pasley (1781-1821), of Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London; nephew of Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley.

Southern England

Despite these varying boundary definitions, however, the northern boundary is generally taken to correspond to an imaginary line from the Severn Estuary to the Wash (or, expressed in terms of towns, from Gloucester to King's Lynn).

Stanegarth

The tug used to tow three dredging hoppers, each crewed by two men, on the trip to and from Gloucester to Purton.

The Voyage of the Mimi

Mimi was sailed from Gloucester to the Mystic River in Boston, where she was kept docked at various Marinas in East Boston and Chelsea.

Three Choirs Festival

Herbert Sumsion, organist at Gloucester between 1928 and 1967, particularly helped to promote the works of native composers, including premiering works of Howells, Finzi, and others.

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London

In the Midlands, there was a Ukrainian Catholic priest celebrating Ukrainian-rite services for the Ukrainian faithful in Coventry, as well as in Rugby, Gloucester, Bristol, Birmingham and Cheltenham.

Walter Froucester

With the view of securing for his monastery full title to some of its possessions he despatched to Rome one of the brotherhood, William Bryt by name, who, after a stay of some years, succeeded in getting appropriated to the monastery the churches of Holy Trinity and St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester, and that of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Will Graulich

On 7 May 2013, Will Graulich would sign for the Championship side Cornish Pirates for the 2013/14 season, effectively leaving Gloucester.