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4 unusual facts about Keele


Keele

According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 3,664, most of whom were students at Keele University.

Keele is featured on the UK 'Here and Now' edition of the board game Monopoly, released in September 2007, It takes the place of Fleet Street in the traditional version.

Keele Hall

Keele Hall is a 19th-century mansion house at Keele, Staffordshire, England, now standing on the campus of Keele University and serving as the university conference centre.

Terry Dunfield

As a schoolboy, Dunfield played in a tournament at Keele, where he was scouted by Manchester City.


1976 Summer Paralympics

There was no athletes village, so the athletes were housed at York University (Keele campus), University of Toronto (Erindale?) and the CNIB (national headquarters in Toronto).

Finch Avenue

On August 19, 2005 a freak rainstorm in Toronto caused the Black Creek water level to rise, which caused a section of Finch Avenue West near Sentinel Road (due south of York University between Keele and Jane Streets) to collapse, leaving a deep pit that prevented any pedestrian or vehicular traffic from passing through.

Horn loudspeaker

Subsequent to Keele's work and using his principles, Clifford A. Henricksen and Mark S. Ureda of Altec designed a strikingly different hybrid horn displaying constant directivity traits, the horizontal diffraction or "Mantaray" horn.

Jack Emery

He began his career producing and acting at Keele, most notably in his first one-man show taken from the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett, called "A Remnant", which played in the West End, the Edinburgh Festival and toured worldwide.

Keele Hall

The manor of Keele was held by the Sneyd (pronounced Snade) family and in about 1580 Ralph Sneyd built a large gabled Tudor style house there.

Keele Street

York Region Transit also operates the 22 King City along Keele, running from Steeles to King Rd in King City.

While Keele originally ran straight north, today there is a brief cut-off to deviate around the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway corridors, near the former Canada Packers stock yards.

Toronto Solid Waste Management

A deal was eventually made to ship Toronto's garbage to the Adams Mine, an abandoned open pit mine in Northern Ontario, once the Keele Valley site closed.

W. A. Campbell Stewart

In 1950 Lord Lindsay, the founder of the newly opened University College of North Staffordshire, (now Keele University), appointed him the Chair of Education in 1950.


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