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unusual facts about Granby, Nottinghamshire



Anurag Singh

In 2003, he was signed by Nottinghamshire as a replacement for Usman Afzaal.

Arthur Cecil Caporn

Born in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, he was the son of Arthur Leeson Caporn, owner of a Nottingham lace-making business.

Arthur Leslie

Arthur Leslie (Arthur Scottorn Broughton) 8 December 1901 – 30 June 1970 was a British actor who was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire but moved to Lancashire at an early age.

Barton in the Beans

:The village of Barton in Fabis in Nottinghamshire was once known as Barton in the Beans (Faba being Latin for 'bean' abl. plur. 'fabis')

Benoit Coulombe

Born in Granby, Québec, Canada in 1958, Coulombe obtained his bachelor degree in Biochemistry (1981) and his PhD in Molecular Biology (1988) at the University of Montreal before undertaking postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto and the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield

Taylor was from a mining family in Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire and left school at 14 to work at the Sherwood Colliery.

Bertie Bolton

Eight years after last representing Hampshire in the County Championship, Bolton returned in 1922, where he made his return debut against Nottinghamshire.

Bob Haines

Having played for the Kent Second XI in 1924, Haines joined Glamorgan nearly a decade later, making his first-class debut for the Welsh county against Nottinghamshire in the 1933 County Championship.

Cornelius the First

Cornelius the First was a Canadian black rhinoceros from the Granby Zoo in Granby, Quebec, who was the nominal leader of the federal political party, the Rhinoceros Party of Canada from 1965 to 1993.

Declaration and forfeiture

In a game against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend, Wright declared Nottinghamshire's second innings closed on 157 for 5 to set Kent a target of 231 to win.

Dick Tyldesley

He also hit up 105 against Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford and remarkably was Lancashire's fourth-highest run-scorer - though with less than half the aggregates of Ernest Tyldesley, Hallows and Makepeace.

East Florida

The most powerful lubricant between the East Florida speculators and the Nova Scotia speculators was Col. Thomas Thoroton of Flintham, Nottinghamshire.

Edward Parker Charlesworth

He was son of John Charlesworth, rector of Ossington, Nottinghamshire, and was brother of John Charlesworth the father of Maria Louisa Charlesworth.

Finningley

The 2,741 metre long runway, currently the second longest in the north of England, was sufficiently large to take even Concorde, and in the period after the closure of the RAF airfield there were several campaigns to turn Finningley into a commercial airport for the unserved South Yorkshire region (as well as Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire).

Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton

He succeeded to the barony on his father's death in 1729 and inherited estates at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (where he lived) and at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire.

Fred Ridgway

Career-best figures of eight for 39, however, against Nottinghamshire at the tail end of the season, was followed by an impressive 1951, where he took over ninety wickets and, with Alec Bedser amongst others declining to tour India, Ridgway was a natural choice, and was one of seven players who made their Test debut that trip where he opened the bowling with Brian Statham.

Frederick Chatfield Smith

Frederick Chatfield Smith bought "Bramcote Hall" in Bramcote (Nottinghamshire) from Mr. Wilmot as home for his family and enlarged it considerably.

George Africanus

Darcy Molineux raised George Molineux's father John (1685-1754) in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, before settling in Wolverhampton around 1700.

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 2005

James Averis then took four wickets for the Gladiators, as Nottinghamshire lost their first five wickets for 32 runs, but Anurag Singh and Mark Ealham put them back on track by adding 30 for the sixth wicket.

Godfrey Chetwynd, 8th Viscount Chetwynd

From 1915-19, he was managing director of the National Shell Filling Factory No. 6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, which he designed and built; for which he was a made a Companion of Honour for his services to the war effort.

Henry Willoughby, 6th Baron Middleton

He married Jane Lawley, daughter of Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet and lived in the family seat at Wollaton Park, Nottinghamshire, which he had extensively remodeled under the direction of Sir Jeffry Wyattville.

John Lascelles

Lassells was the son of Richard, or George, Lassells of Gateford, Nottinghamshire (d. 1520), gentleman, and his wife Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Brian Sandford.

John Lexington

Lexington was a member of a prominent family whose name came from the village of Lexington, now Laxton, in Nottinghamshire.

John Medley Wood

John Medley Wood (1 December 1827 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England - 26 August 1915 Durban) was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosaic virus immune Uba sugar cane in Natal and for his extensive collection of Natal plants.

Les Surveillantes

After their success in the Réseau National des Galas de la chanson, the group performed at many festivals, including Coup de Coeur francophone Montreal, and Winnipeg in November 2009, and in 2010 the Festival Vue sur la Relève at Montreal in 2010, the Chicane Albertaine at Nordegg, and the Festival international de la chanson de Granby (out of contest).

London Underground battery-electric locomotives

The manufacturer was W. R. Renshaw and Co Ltd, who were based in Sutton-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, and the vehicles were fitted with current collector shoes, so that they could draw power from the rails when it was available.

Martin Bicknell

His brother Darren Bicknell was a sound county batsman formerly with Surrey and finishing his career with Nottinghamshire.

Mary Lascelles

Mary Lassells was the daughter of Richard, or George, Lassells of Gateford, Nottinghamshire (d. 1520), gentleman.

Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour was two years old when her parents moved into Thrumpton Hall, the family's ancestral home in Nottinghamshire.

Neil Pointon

Neil Geoffrey Pointon, born 28 November 1964 in Church Warsop, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, is a former professional football (soccer) player.

Nottinghamshire

Toton was the birthplace and home of English folk singer-songwriter Anne Briggs, well known for her song 'Black Waterside'.

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club in 2005

In reply, Anurag Singh hit an unbeaten 30 and Younis Khan 28 not out as Nottinghamshire eased to the target in half the time allotted.

Jon Lewis broke through their defences, however, shattering Ealham's stumps as he was bowled, and when Anurag Singh departed for 41, Nottinghamshire's task looked steep.

Papplewick Pumping Station

Papplewick Pumping Station, in the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built by Nottingham Corporation Water Department between 1881 and 1884 to pump water from the Bunter sandstone to provide drinking water to the City of Nottingham, in England.

Ralph Heathcote

In the late 1760s Heathcote moved back to the midlands, as a prebendary of Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire.

Réal Paiement

During his final year in Granby, half of the season was coached by John Paris.

Redmile railway station

Redmile railway station was a railway station serving the villages of Redmile and Barkestone-le-Vale, Nottinghamshire and also Belvoir Castle.

Richard de Grey

Richard, 1 Dec 1202-8 Sep 1271, was the eldest surviving son of Henry de Grey of Thurrock, an Essex landowner owning the manors of Codnor in Derbyshire and Grimston in Nottinghamshire; and Isolda de Bardolf.

Shaun Barker

Born in Trowell, Nottinghamshire, Barker started his career at Rotherham as a junior making his debut in March 2003 against Brighton & Hove Albion.

Shell Guides

Thorold also wrote the last book in the series, Nottinghamshire in 1984, published the same year that Betjeman died.

Sherwood station

Sherwood Forest Railway, railway in the grounds of the Sherwood Forest Farm Park in Nottinghamshire, England

Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet

Gell was married in January 1609, at the age of 15, to Elizabeth Willoughby, daughter of Sir Percival Willoughby of Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire.

St Giles Church, Carburton

The church of S. Giles, Carburton, Nottinghamshire, is an unusual shape and dates back to the early 12th century, parish records date back to the 1530s.

Takeover Radio

Takeover Radio is a community radio station broadcasting on FM to Leicester, to the Ashfield district in Nottinghamshire and on the Internet, specialising in helping children gain experience and direct participative involvement in radio broadcasting.

The Cricketer

Andrew Miller joined as editor in January 2012, with former Nottinghamshire cricketer Andy Afford appointed as publishing director.

Tim Hadcock-Mackay

Hadcock-Mackay owned Barnby Moor Hall, near Retford, Nottinghamshire, where he lived with his partner Torquil Mackenzie Buist.

Trevor Ford

In 1968, Ford briefly acted as a substitute fielder for Glamorgan in their County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at St. Helen's, Swansea in the match during which Sir Garfield Sobers hit his world record six sixes from an over bowled by Malcolm Nash.

Viscount Chetwynd

His great-great-grandson, the eighth Viscount, served as managing director of the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire during the First World War.

Wilfred Paling

When the family moved to Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire he started work in New Hucknall Colliery, also attending night classes organised by the Workers Educational Association in politics, economics and trade union history.

Worksop Rural District

The remainder, in Nottinghamshire, became the Blyth and Cuckney Rural District, taking its name from two of the parishes, Blyth and Cuckney.


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