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3 unusual facts about Greenhill


Ash Wednesday bushfires

Of the 26 people who died in South Australia, 12 were in metropolitan areas, including four in the Adelaide suburb of Greenhill.

Greenhill, Evesham

King Henry's son, Lord Edward, later Edward I used it as his base in the battle from where he launched his attack on Simon de Montford's forces who were gathered around Evesham Abbey.

Mount Lofty Fire Tower

The three members of the spotting crew appeared on the broadcast along with former Adelaide radio journalist Murray Nicoll, who received a Walkley Award for his live report from his own street in Greenhill as it burned around him during the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983.


Clydebank

A representation of part of the Roman Antonine Wall was included as the Wall and Roman forts at Old Kilpatrick and Greenhill were features common to the burgh and to the villages in the District.

Great and Little Kimble

Her successors sold it in 1803 to Scrope Bernard (later Sir Scrope Bernard-Morland, a Baronet), who had been lord of the manor of Little Kimble since 1792, He held both manors until his death in 1830 and they were then sold to Robert Greenhill Russell (created a Baronet in 1831).

HMS Monarch

Colledge, J. J. (1987) Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy from the fifteenth century to the present, London: Greenhill, ISBN 0-947898-75-1

Ian Bruce-Gardyne

David Greenhill Bruce-Gardyne was a cousin of Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, PC (Can) first Prime Minister of Canada, and his wife Azemia Sellar was a granddaughter of the notorious Patrick Sellar.

Miller twist rule

The rule of thumb that Greenhill devised based upon his formula is actually what is seen in most places, including Wikipedia.

Peter Hudson

Hudson was kept goalless just three times during his senior career, by Richmond's Barry Richardson in 1969, Carlton's Rod Austin in 1977 and Bruce Greenhill of TFL club Sandy Bay in 1978.

Tony Jeapes

Amended copies were published by HarperCollins in 1996 as SAS Secret War and again by Greenhill Books with the same title in paperback in 2005.

William Greenhill

From 1615 to 1633 William Greenhill held the Magdalen College living of New Shoreham, Sussex.


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