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11 unusual facts about Humber


Belchford

The Viking Way, a national long distance footpath, passes through Belchford by the Blue Bell Inn, on its way from the Humber in the north to Rutland in the south.

Blackburn Segrave

:Was used by the North Sea Aerial & General Transport Company until 1935, mainly as a ferry across the River Humber, when it was sold to British Air Transport at Redhill Aerodrome.

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.

Humber-class monitor

Designed for service on the Amazon River, the ships were of shallow draft and heavy armament and were ideally suited to inshore, riverine and coastal work but unsuitable for service at sea, where their weight and light draft reduced their speed from a projected twelve knots to under four.

Ordered from the Vickers Limited shipyard at High Walker on the River Tyne, the three ships were launched by 1913 and were undergoing sea trials when the Brazilian government informed Vickers that they would not be able to pay for the warships.

Severn and Mersey's guns soon wore out, and they were each re-armed with a single 6" Mk VII gun stripped from the wreck of HMS Montagu, a battleship which had been wrecked on the Isle of Lundy in 1906.

Leningrad Gospels

This highly idiosyncratic work may have been produced in England south of the Humber.

Samuel Wilderspin

However, Queen Street School in Barton-upon-Humber is the only known surviving school built to his designs.

South Humber Rabbitohs

Despite being just across the River Humber from the rugby league stronghold of Hull, there is no record of a club ever playing in the area.

Terry Hodgkinson

From 2003 he led Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency for Yorkshire and Humber.

Wrekenton

Wrekenton is believed to have been the meeting point of two Roman roads, Cade's Road, which ran all the way from the Humber, via York to Newcastle and the Wrekendyke which branched away to the north-east passing close to Jarrow and ending at the Roman fort and harbour of Arbeia, at South Shields.


Ania Szado

She attended Humber School for Writers, studying under authors Nino Ricci and Anne Michaels.

Charles Sacré

In the realm of civil engineering, he suggested extending the then main line by a tunnel under the Humber to Hull, but this brought him into conflict with Edward Watkin, the Company Chairman.

Christos Michas

In 2009, Richard Corbett, an MEP for Yorkshire and Humber petitioned UEFA for a reversal of AC Milan's victory over Leeds United in the 1973 final.

Commer TS3

Eric W Coy, Rootes' Chief Engineer, was responsible for the development of the engine by a core team of only seven people, at the Humber plant at Stoke Aldermoor.

Corner Brook

Route 1, the Trans-Canada Highway, passes the south side of the city on a high ridge before descending to the east, into the Humber Valley.

Daniel Whitby

The son of Thomas Whitby, rector (1631-7) of Rushden, Northamptonshire, then rector of Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, he was born at Rushden on 24 March 1638.

Darryl Kelly

Kelly stood as the Progressive Conservative candidate in a by-election in Humber Valley on February 13, 2007, losing by a margin of just seven votes to Liberal candidate Dwight Ball.

Don Cassel

He developed one of the first online interactive courses at Humber for Microsoft Access using WebCT.

Dwight Ball

Ball was the Liberal candidate in the district of Humber Valley in the 2003 provincial election but was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Kathy Goudie by less than 200 votes.

Edenbridge

Humber Valley Village, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, commonly referred to as Edenbridge-Humber Valley

Ermine Street

Clearly, the end of the Jurassic limestone ridge at the Humber was significant in the English settlement of Lincolnshire.

Hellaby

The Humber would have proved an ideal landing point with followers of the Vikings, “helgi” and “mault” (Maltby), sailing up the Rivers Trent and Idle and establishing themselves in the nearby limestone valleys with their clear waters and fertile soil.

Herman Maxwell Batten

Born in Bareneed, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1953 as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of Humber—St. George's and re-elected in the elections of 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965 and he was defeated in the election of 1968 in the riding of Humber—St. George's—St. Barbe.

HMS Gay Viking

The plan was that having arrived at the Swedish port of Lysekil they would load their cargoes, before sailing back to the Humber.

HMS M25

M25 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M27, M31, M33 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in May 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

HMS M27

M27 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M31, M33 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in May 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

HMS M33

M33 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M27, M31 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

Humber Bay Park

Humber Bay Park is a waterfront park located in Etobicoke part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Humber Bay Park East is home to Toronto's memorial to the victims of the bombing of Air India Flight 182.

Humber Motorcycles

Although the founder Thomas Humber left the business in 1892 his successors, Harry Lawson and an American Edward Pennington continued the name.

Humber River Regional Hospital

George Smitherman, politician and broadcaster, born at Humber Memorial (Church site) on February 12, 1964.

Humber Scout Car

One of these companies was Humber which along with other companies in the Rootes Group was already producing armoured cars and the Humber Light Reconnaissance Car.

Humber Super Snipe

The Humber Super Snipe is a car which was produced from 1938 to 1967 by the British-based Humber car company, part of the Rootes Group.

Humber Valley

Provincially it is spread across four districts: Humber Valley, Humber East, Humber West, and Bay of Islands.

Immingham Dock railway station

Immingham Dock was opened on 22 July 1912 by the Great Central Railway at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the river Humber.

James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

Bannockburn left northern England open to attack; and in the years that followed many communities in the area became closely acquainted with the 'Blak Dowglas.' Along with Randolph, Douglas was to make a new name for himself in a war of mobility, which carried Scots raiders as far south as Pontefract and the Humber.

Joe Daniel

He was also a part-time professor at Humber and Centennial College and during this period presented a number of papers on fibre optic technology.

New Toronto

Recent attempts to rejuvenate New Toronto include the protection of remaining industrial lands (for employment) and the old Mimico Lunatic Asylum buildings and grounds with the expansion of Humber College's Lake Shore campus and the Lakeshore Grounds, as well as the construction of the new Lakeshore Lions Arena on the former W & A Gilbey distillery site.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Peter D. Robinson

He grew up in Barton Waterside, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, and was educated locally at Castledyke Primary School and Baysgarth Comprehensive School.

Phill Feltham

During his time at Humber, Phill worked with a variety of media outlets including Global Television, Rogers Television, and the Etobicoke Guardian.

River Waveney

The ice sheet closed the natural drainage from the Vale of Pickering, the Humber and The Wash so that a lake of a complex shape formed in the Vale of Pickering, the Yorkshire Ouse valley, the lower Trent valley and the Fenland basin.

Stonegrave Minster

The abbess or abbot ruled Coxwold, Stonegrave and a third house, Donamuthe, near where the Old Don met the Trent and Humber at Adlingfleet.

Thistletown

The borders of Thistletown are generally delineated by the Humber River: the West Branch to the south, slightly beyond the river to the east, and to the William Osler Health Centre - Etobicoke General Hospital just above the river in the north.

TID-class tug

Richard Dunston Ltd., a ship-building company with yards at Thorne on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and at Hessle on the Humber, had pioneered the use of welded construction, rather than the more conventional rivetting, since 1933, although they had never built an all-welded vessel.