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10 unusual facts about Grantham


Bowmansdale, Pennsylvania

The Bowmansdale Stoner covered bridge, built in 1867, was relocated to the campus of nearby Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania in 1972

Dennis Hollinger

Hollinger previously held academic appointments at Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, and Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York.

Donald Kraybill

Before returning to Elizabethtown College, Kraybill served as provost and professor of Sociology and Anabaptist studies at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

Eric Chappell

Eric Chappell (born 1933, Grantham, Lincolnshire) is an English comedy writer who wrote and co-wrote a number of the UK's biggest sitcom hits during the 1970s, '80s, and '90s.

Grace Williams

During the Second World War, the students were evacuated to Grantham in Lincolnshire, where she composed some of her earliest works, including the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra, and her First symphony.

Grantham, Pennsylvania

Grantham is an unincorporated community in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, best known today for the Christian liberal arts college, Messiah College, whose students make up most of its population.

Grantham's Camellia

It was first discovered in the ravine of Tai Mo Shan in 1955 by AFCD.

Haldanes

Its headquarters were in Grantham, Lincolnshire; a regional office was being established in Broxburn, near Edinburgh at the time of closure.

Jeremy Sorzano

He played for the nationally-ranked NCAA division III soccer at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania with co-Soccer Shots Partners Jason Webb and Justin Bredeman.

Robin Collins

He currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.


160 Transport Regiment

It is a National TA unit, formed in April 1995, which recruits personnel from all over the country and is based at Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Alexandra Hill

Hill was born in Grantham but grew up in Australia where she was educated at St Aloysius College, Adelaide.

Belton and Manthorpe

The parish lies on either side of the River Witham, flowing northwards from Grantham to Lincoln, and is similarly bisected by the A607 road which follows the River closely through the parish.

Bolton, Northumberland

He also gave it the villa, manor, impropriation, and advowson of Straunston, and his estates of the Pauntons within that lordship, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire; and also an estate at Elwell, in Swanesland, in Yorkshire, with pasturage for 300 sheep, near the river Humber; a corn-mill and a tenement at Middleton, near Dalton; and lands at Garton; both in the county of York.

Buckminster

Many properties in the local area and Grantham are owned by Buckminster Estates, who are linked with the Tollemache family who live in Buckminster Park: the former home of the Earl of Dysart.

Carrie Nye

Nye played Sylvia Grantham in the classic 1982 horror film Creepshow.

Charles Nicholl

On leaving Grantham he took the post as Rector of Clayhidon, a position he held until his death in 1939.

Chook Sibtain

He is perhaps best known for his role as Mark Grantham on the Sarah Jane Adventures and as Tarak Ital on the Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars.

Den Watts

Julia Smith remembered that she had taught Grantham at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and regarded him as a "mature student", although she had never seen him "in action".

Earl of Grantham

Earl of Grantham was a title in the Peerage of England created once on 24 December 1698, along with the titles Viscount Boston, of Boston in the County of Lincoln, and Baron Alford, of Alford in the County of Lincoln, for Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque.

Eric Skrmetta

Eric Skrmetta's paternal grandparents were Paul Cecil Skrmetta, a native of the island of Brač in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia and the former Elizabeth Nora Grantham, originally from Bay Springs in Jasper County, Mississippi.

Freddie Jameson

In 1951 whilst still in the RAF Freddie was coached by Alfie Noakes of the Geraldo Orchestra, and began professional engagements on trumpet with the Joe Loss 'Ambassadors', and went on to play with Billy Ternent, Harry Parry, Joe Loss, Sidney Lipton, the Cyril Grantham Orchestra at the Park Lane Hotel, Claude Cavalotti, Nat Temple, and Geraldo - for whom he also appeared on the cruise liner Queen Mary, making seventeen return trips to New York.

Grantham by-election, 1942

The Grantham Communist party in line with the position taken by their national headquarters, circulated a leaflet that urged electors to vote for the Conservative Longmore, so as to show solidarity with the Red Army.

Grantham Prize

It was established by Jeremy Grantham and Hannelore Grantham and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting to annually recognize the work of one journalist or a team of journalists for exemplary reporting on the environment.

Grantham University

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Grantham University's main campus in Slidell, Louisiana, destroying approximately eighty percent of their facilities.

Harry Pringle

During the 1950s Pringle acted as trainer for the works team of Aveling Barford, the Grantham-based manufacturer of steamrollers.

Jason Webb

He played for the nationally ranked NCAA division III soccer at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania with co-Soccer Shots Partners Jeremy Sorzano and Justin Bredeman.

John Grantham

In 1830, Grantham won a prize from the London and North Western Railway for a design for pulling up passenger carriages from Lime Street to Edge Hill Station, Liverpool, by stationary engines.

John Thorold

Sir John Thorold, 4th Baronet (c.1664–1717), MP for Grantham and Lincolnshire

Just Sylvia

The Cherry Sisters, Rhonda Fleming, George Grantham, Sherilyn Huffman, Lisa Silver, Diane Tidwell: Backing Vocals

Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School

The school's connection with Minami High School, Fukushima, Japan, involves a group of Japanese students visiting Grantham each year.

Mick Farmer

By the time his Grantham career ended some four-and-a-half years and 143 games later, he had won two Midland League titles, a Southern League Division One North title and contributed to the club's Southern League runners-up spot in 1974, though in 1973–74 season he spent time on loan at Oadby Town and took no part in Grantham's run to the Third Round of the FA Cup.

Montague Cholmeley

Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet (1802–1874), British MP for Grantham 1826–1831 and North Lincolnshire

Ovingdean

This dedication was only ever found in two other places in England (Grantham and Dorrington, both in Lincolnshire - it has vanished at Dorrington).

Peterborough Evening Telegraph

East Midlands Newspapers also publishes 11 other titles including the Stamford Mercury and Grantham Journal.

Polebrook

He made morale boosting visits locally during his time here, an example being Marco in Grantham - a picture appears on the "Manthorpe News" website.

Public houses and inns in Grantham

The public houses and inns in Grantham reflect to a great extent the history of the town, soke, and Parliamentary constituency of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

Roy Grantham

Grantham then became the president of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions and the Labour government appointed him a director of Chrysler UK, but he resigned in 1981 when the company closed its Linwood plant in Scotland.

St Wulfram's Church, Grantham

The royal arms are those of Queen Elizabeth I, with the motto VIVAT REGINA over the arms of the Grantham Borough used between 1405 and 1603 and the Stuart Arms, installed at the Restoration and used until 1701, over the borough arms incorporating an oak leaf as a reference to King Charles II.

Warriors of Kudlak

After decades of recruiting (mostly Terran) children via war-games - called 'Combat 3000' - Kudlak - or rather Mr Grantham - abducted Clyde and Luke.

William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart

Lord Dysart's seats were Ham House, Petersham, Richmond, Surrey, and Buckminster Park, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

William Winde

Belton House near Grantham, Lincolnshire, is attributed to him.