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5 unusual facts about Great Bridge


Battle of Kemp's Landing

Militia companies from Princess Anne County in the Province of Virginia assembled at Kemp's Landing to counter British troops under the command of Virginia's last colonial governor, John Murray, Lord Dunmore, that had landed at nearby Great Bridge.

Great Bridge, West Midlands

Great Bridge North Station was situated on the South Staffordshire Line between Walsall and Stourbridge, which closed to passengers in the 1960s but remained open for goods trains until the Walsall - Round Oak section was closed in 1993.

LMS Jubilee Class 5552 Silver Jubilee

45552 was withdrawn in September 1964, and scrapped at Cashmores, Great Bridge.

West Midlands Soho Road bus corridor

As of 29 June 2008, Sandwell Travel commenced operations on the 74 between Great Bridge and Birmingham, in this direction only.

XTuple

Jeffrey Lyon, the original developer of OpenMFG, contacted Ned LIlly, then of Great Bridge, a company incubated within Landmark Media Enterprises (formerly Landmark Communications), whose owner, Frank Batten Jr., had heavily invested in Red Hat.


Powder Alarm

Most of the regulars then returned to Boston the way they had come, but a small contingent marched to Cambridge, removed two field pieces, and took them to Boston by foot over the Great Bridge and up Boston Neck.


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Administrative division of Novgorod Land

The assumptions of the internal structure of independent Novgorod are mostly based on the list of the builders of the Great Bridge over Volkhov (1260s) and the 1471 treaty between Novgorod and Casimir IV of Poland.

Great Bridge Bridge

The Great Bridge Bridge is a double rolling bascule drawbridge that carries Battlefield Blvd. and spans the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Swan Village Gas Works

The only remains of the Swan Lane Basin and Great Bridge railway lines are the extra gaps under the bridge on Bilhay Lane where the lines converged with GWR's Birmingham to Wolverhampton line, which still exists today as Line 1 of the Midland Metro.

From the station branched the Great Bridge line linking up with the South Staffordshire Line which ran to Dudley.