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4 unusual facts about Grays


South Essex College

Located just outside of Grays, the Thurrock Campus offers courses in business, catering, childcare, construction, engineering, games development and ICT.

South Essex College of Further and Higher Education is a further education college located over three main sites in Basildon, Southend-on-Sea and Grays in Essex, England.

The Tilbury Band

February 1922 saw a contest for local bands held at Grays.

Zodarion italicum

It was first discovered in Britain in 1984, where it is widespread in the Grays area of Essex and occurs among rubble on waste ground and in chalk quarries, often with the ant Lasius niger.


1942 Negro World Series

Paige allowed consecutive singles to Sam Bankhead and Howard Easterling in the fourth inning, but the Grays batters were hitless otherwise.

Aberdeen Gardens

Aberdeen Gardens, Washington, census-designated place (CDP) in Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA

BR549

Before moving to Nashville and forming BR5-49, Chuck Mead played in a band called Homestead Grays, a roots-rock outfit based in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas.

East-West League

Greenlee recruited a number of Grays star players, including Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and Oscar Charleston, who joined a Crawfords team anchored by the great pitcher Satchel Paige.

Gray's Inn Road

Richard Horwood's map (updated by William Faden in 1813) calls the whole stretch from Holborn to modern Kings Cross "Grays Inn Lane", but by the mid-19th century it is Gray's Inn Road.

Grays Harbor

The schooner Annie Larsen was seized at Grays Harbour on 25 June 1915 by US customs officials, later leading to what was at the time the most expensive trial in US legal history.

Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge has the largest hardstem bulrush marsh in North America.

Grays River Covered Bridge

Author, Granger The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and Grays River resident Robert Michael Pyle served as Master of Ceremonies for the event.

Grays River, Washington

Grays River stands on the north bank of the lower Grays River, which flows into the Columbia River estuary.

Hoquiam High School

Hoquiam serves as the third largest high school in Grays Harbor County, Washington; covering the city of Hoquiam and unincorporated parts of northern Grays Harbor County.

John Eubank

Eubank continued to play in the minor leagues for several years, concluding his career with the Grays from Goshen, Indiana.

Jonathan D. Gray

The Grays donated $25 million to create the Basser Research Center, which focuses on cancer prevention, treatment, and research of BRCA-related, genetically-inherited cancers.

Kentucky Route 10

Kentucky Route 10, also known as KY 10, is a highway maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet that runs from Alexandria, Kentucky (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio) to the Jesse Stuart Memorial Bridge at Grays Branch, roughly north of Greenup, Kentucky, where the route continues into Ohio as State Route 253.

Mac MacArthur

Before his time with the Hoosiers, he had played professionally for the East Saginaw Grays of the Northwestern League in 1883.

Milwaukee Grays

The Grays were managed by former major league right fielder Jack Chapman, whose nickname was "Death to Flying Things." Their best hitter was left fielder Abner Dalrymple, who led the team in batting average (.354), slugging percentage (.421), runs (52), and doubles (10).

Narindar Saroop

Later directorships and advisory positions were with Oxfam Relief Project (1964), Devi Grays Insurance Ltd (1981-84), Capital Plant International Ltd (1982-86), Develt, Clarkson Puckle Group (1976-87), Banque Belge (1987-91), Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund (1992-95), National Grid plc (1993), Coutts & Co. (1995-98) and the BBC Advisory Council on Asian Programmes (1977-81).

New Recreation Ground

Grays Athletic had planned to move to a new stadium, but at the end of the 2009–10 season announced they would groundshare at East Thurrock United's Rookery Hill.

Ockendon railway station

The single track line through the area was opened in 1892 by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway as part of a branch from Romford to Grays via Upminster.

Providence Grays

The team had a putative claim to being the first Major League Baseball team to field an African-American baseball player, William Edward White, a Brown University student who played one game for the Grays on June 21, 1879.

University Grays

The story of the University Grays is memorialized in an opera composed by Dr. Arthur Kreutz who was Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi using text from the book of the same name by Zoe Lund Schiller.


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