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unusual facts about Hyde Park, South Yorkshire



1991 Summer Universiade

Hyde Park flats, located near Sheffield City Centre were used for accommodation for the athletes during the games and were later demolished.

Allan Weiner

After the M/V Fury fiasco, Ferraro purchased a small licensed AM station, WHVW in Hyde Park, New York.

Amanda Parris

Parris serves as the Business Centre manager, Rotherham Investment and Development Office, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, South Yorkshire.

Armthorpe Welfare F.C.

Armthorpe Welfare F.C. are a football club based in Armthorpe, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

Associated London Scripts

Around 1960 ALS sold the Kensington offices and purchased even more prestigious premises at 9 Orme Court in Bayswater Road, adjacent to Hyde Park.

Bert Barlow

Born in Kilnhurst, Barlow began working as a miner in South Yorkshire at the Silverwood Colliery, where he played football, representing the miners' team.

Bradley Pryce

Pryce turned professional in July 2001, winning his first fight at the Doncaster Dome, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England beating David Hines on points over four rounds on a card which included Ricky Hatton, Junior Witter and Ryan Rhodes.

Carroll S. Page

Born in Westfield, Vermont, he attended the common schools, People's Academy in Morrisville and Lamoille Central Academy in Hyde Park.

Charles Bridgeman

As Royal Gardener, Bridgeman tended – and in many cases, redesigned – the royal gardens at Windsor, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, St. James's Park and Hyde Park.

Chicago Children's Choir

In 1956 during the Civil Rights Movement, the late Rev. Christopher Moore founded the multiracial, multicultural Chicago Children’s Choir at Hyde Park’s First Unitarian Church of Chicago.

Cobweb Bridge

The Cobweb Bridge, also known as Spider Bridge, is located in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, near the disused Sheffield Victoria railway station.

Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk

It goes between Kensington Gardens, Green Park, Hyde Park and St. James's Park in a figure-eight pattern, passing five sites that are associated with her life: Kensington Palace, Spencer House, Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace, and Clarence House.

Dore and Totley railway station

Dore and Totley railway station (named Dore railway station from 1971 until 2008) is a small, one platform railway halt near the Sheffield areas of Dore and Totley in South Yorkshire, England.

Edenthorpe

Edenthorpe is a village and civil parish in the east of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in the English county of South Yorkshire.

Edward E. Moore

At that time the district encompassed the Hyde Park and Angeles Mesa annexations, Vermont Avenue south to 62nd Street, and a shoestring strip leading to Westchester, Mines Field and the Hyperion sewage screening plant.

Elizabeth Eaton

She was consecrated as presiding bishop on October 5, 2013 at Rockefeller Chapel in Hyde Park (Chicago, IL).

Eugene Holtsinger

Holtsinger moved to Tampa in 1905 from Dandridge, Tennessee and joined fellow Tennessean Alfred Swann in the land-development business, constructing homes in Hyde Park, Tampa, Ridgewood Park, Tampa, Ybor City and West Tampa.

Fake Tales of San Francisco

The song derides a fictional South Yorkshire band for taking its inspiration from the USA while never having been there, with lyrics such as "I'd love to tell you all my problem / You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham", and "He talks of San Francisco, he's from Hunter's Bar".

George Markham Giffard

After an extended illness, he died at his house, 4 Prince's Gardens, Hyde Park, London.

Greasbrough Canal

The Greasbrough Canal was a private canal built by the Marquess of Rockingham to serve his coal mining interests in and around the village of Greasbrough, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

Hyde Park, Boston

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was one of the first official African-American units in the United States Army and was commanded by Col. Robert G. Shaw, was assembled and trained at Camp Meigs in Readville.

Hyde Park, Sydney

Seven Arab horses taken on board the First Fleet at the Cape Colony (now South Africa) were the first horses to be brought to Australia.

James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton

On 15 November 1712, Hamilton fought a celebrated duel with Charles, Lord Mohun, in Hyde Park, Westminster, in an episode narrated in Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond.

Jay Yuenger

Growing up in the diverse Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's south side (home to the University of Chicago), Yuenger was exposed to soul, jazz, folk, and the electric blues and attended Kenwood Academy.

John Busby

In June 1825 Busby made an interesting report on the state of the water-supply of Sydney, and suggested that a supply could be drawn from "the large lagoon in the vicinity of the paper mill" to a reservoir in Hyde Park from which it would be distributed throughout the city by pipes.

Kidnap Kid

Matt Relton, known professionally as Kidnap Kid, is an English electronic dance music record producer and DJ from Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Lee Strafford

Lee Strafford is an English businessman, the former chairman of Sheffield Wednesday F.C., the Football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Macquarie Street, Sydney

The southern end of Macquarie Street is located at the northern end of Hyde Park, where it meats St James' Road and Prince Alfred Road at Queen's Square, Sydney, to which Phillip Street and King Street also join.

Margo Gunn

Margo Gunn born 8 February 1956 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, is an English actress and a fully qualified Drama teacher of Drama and Theatre Studies.

Masbrough

Masbrough, occasionally misspelt Masborough or Masbro is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

Miles Master

A total of 3,227 Masters were built by Phillips and Powis Aircraft Limited at Woodley, Berkshire; South Marston, Swindon, Wiltshire; and Doncaster, South Yorkshire, the largest number produced of any Miles aircraft type.

O'Higgins Park

In 1870, the government gave the northern portion of the terrain to the rich heir and philanthropist Luis Cousiño, who inspired by the parks he saw in Europe —like Hyde Park in London or the Bois de Boulogne in Paris— decided to give one to his own city.

Oakwell

Oakwell is a multi-purpose sports development in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England used primarily by Barnsley Football Club for playing their home fixtures, and those of their reserves.

Owen Spencer-Thomas

Other famous celebrities he interviewed included comedian Eric Morecambe, pop singer Helen Shapiro, children’s presenter and campaigner Floella Benjamin, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) President Arthur Scargill, Methodist minister and open air preacher at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park Lord Soper and former Prime Minister John Major.

Rima

The Hudson Memorial in London's Hyde Park, created in 1925, has a statue of Rima the Bird Girl sculpted by Jacob Epstein.

Robert D. Macredie

Macredie was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and attended Broom Valley junior and infants' school, Oakwood Comprehensive School, and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology, before an undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Hull.

Rossington Main F.C.

Rossington Main F.C. are a football club based in Rossington, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

Seminary Co-op

The Co-op also operates 57th Street Books, also in the Hyde Park neighborhood, which stocks popular volumes, and the Newberry Library Bookstore, which sells books, cards, and gifts on Chicago's North Side.

Slapp Happy

In June 1974, there were plans for a joint appearance by Slapp Happy and Virgin label mates Henry Cow and Robert Wyatt at a free concert in Hyde Park in London, but this was cancelled at the last minute.

Sonny Rollins Plus 4

The Quintet was in Chicago as well in November 1955, and were playing at the Bee Hive Club in Hyde Park.

Speakers' Corner, Singapore

In response to these free speech concerns, Speakers' Corner was created as local adaptation of the Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London, in 2000.

St Peter's Church, Letwell

The Church of St Peter is found at the west end of the village of Letwell, near Rotherham, in South Yorkshire.

St. Peter's Church, Barnburgh

The Church of St Peter is found at the centre of the village of Barnburgh, near Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, and serves the communities of Barnburgh and Harlington.

Tank Stream

It originated from a swamp to the west of present day Hyde Park and at high tide entered Sydney Cove at what is now the intersection of Bridge and Pitt Streets in the Sydney central business district.

The Jive Aces

The band also performed as part of the Jubilee celebration in Hyde Park, featuring alongside other BGT acts.


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