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unusual facts about King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray



Al Hunter Ashton

His first professional acting work was with a Theatre in Education company in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and he was subsequently cast in Willy Russell plays such as Breezeblock Park (at the Liverpool Playhouse) and Blood Brothers (at the Derby Playhouse).

Erewash Valley Line

By the end of the century, it was also carrying main-line expresses from London to Leeds and Settle and Carlisle Line services to Scotland, while the main line to Derby served the expresses to Manchester, and the main line to Nottingham used the Corby line from Kettering and ran through the now closed Old Dalby line diverting near Melton Mowbray.

Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale

She had numerous adulterous love affairs within the elite Melton Mowbray hunting clique and had a long affair with the renowned pianist Arthur Rubinstein, whom she said she slept with on his wedding day.

Jesse Heighton Proctor

He was born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire and educated at the King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray and the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, where he trained to be a school teacher.

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

At weekends, he travelled north to his country estate, Friars Well Estate, near Melton Mowbray in the county of Leicestershire.

King Edward VII School, Sheffield

KES, named after the reigning monarch, was formed in 1905 when Wesley College was merged with Sheffield Royal Grammar School (SRGS) on the site of the former on Glossop Road.

Mop

In her book “Maggie's Memories” Margaret Wadkin (late of Hickling, near Melton Mowbray in England) describes the use of a mop nail for constructing home made mops from old pieces of cloth during her village childhood in the early 20th century.

Reuben Jones

Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.


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