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unusual facts about Landau Forte Academy, Tamworth



Alan Neilson

Neilson left Tamworth in early 2007 to continue his coaching career at both Luton Town and at Barnfield College.

Anglican Diocese of Armidale

Calrossy Anglican School, Tamworth, incorporating Calrossy Anglican School for Girls (founded 1919), William Cowper Anglican Boys High School and William Cowper Primary School

Ansair

In 1987 a plant opened in Kingston, Tasmania body Scanias for Metro Tasmania and in January 1993 a plant opened in Tamworth, New South Wales to body Scanias for Sydney Buses.

Anthony Burges

He lost his position as Rector in 1662, after the Restoration, despite John Hacket's urging to conform, and then and lived at Tamworth.

Barnard River

Barnard River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Hanging Rock, east of Nundle, and flows generally east southeast, joined by seven tributaries including the Bank and Curricabark rivers, before reaching its confluence with the Manning River, near Bretti.

Burl

One of the largest burls known was found around 1984 in the small town of Tamworth, New South Wales.

Chocorua

Chocorua, New Hampshire, a village in the town of Tamworth near the mountain

Dosthill Colts F.C.

Dosthill Colts F.C. was a football club based in the Dosthill area of Tamworth, England.

Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.

Edwina Bartholomew

Her stories with Sunrise and The Morning Show have taken her from the Queensland floods and Christchurch Earthquake to the Camel Cup in Alice Springs and Tamworth Country Music Festival.

Electoral district of Tamworth

Tamworth was held by independent member Tony Windsor between 1991 and 2001 when he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Member for New England.

Euphrasia arguta

The species was last recorded in June 1904 near Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, and was presumed extinct until rediscovered in 2008 by Forests worker Graham Marshall in NSW's Nundle State Forest.

Ferncroft, New Hampshire

Ferncroft can often be confused with the neighboring village of Wonalancet in the town of Tamworth.

Graham Onions

In January 2009, Onions, returning from injury, played in the losing Stockton (Newcastle) side against the Tamworth side in the New South Wales country cup competition played at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Hampton-in-Arden

The line had originally enabled passengers from the DerbyTamworth, Kingsbury, Whitacre, Shustoke and Coleshill areas to make connections at Hampton for other parts of the country, because at one time the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway had stations side by side at Hampton, at the point where the two lines met (called Derby Junction).

Hemlingford

It was itself sub-divided into four subdivisions, those of Atherstone, Birmingham, Solihull and Tamworth.

Holden Royale

Jakab Industries initially undertook the conversion in Tamworth, New South Wales, until passing the job over to later Specialty Vehicles (SPV) in Sydney.

Jakab Industries

Jakab Industries was an Australian bodybuilder in Tamworth, New South Wales.

Joseph Seigenthaler

Shortly after graduating, he freelanced sculpting life-sized wax figures for wax museums, primarily the Music Valley Wax Museum in Nashville and the Country Music Wax Museum in Tamworth, Australia.

Koorong

In August 2005, Koorong took over the three Church Army bookstores at Newcastle, Tamworth and Gosford.

Landau Forte Academy, Amington

With the introduction of the new academy, the houses were renamed after initial investors Martin Landau and Rocco Forte

Other highlights include drama and recording studios, a whole-school IT network (the school houses a Cisco Systems Oracle Database academy), design and technology centre, a suite of three art studios, a 32-seat language laboratory (French and German were traditionally taught, Spanish has been added in recent years) and nine science laboratories.

Landau Forte Academy, Tamworth

Landau Forte College - an 11-19 academy in Derby, also owned and operated by the Landau Forte Charitable Trust

Landau Forte Academy QEMS (QEMS or LFATQ, formerly a state school known as Queen Elizabeth's Mercian School) - an 11-16 academy on Ashby Road in the North of Tamworth.

Landau Forte Academy, Amington (LFATA, formerly a state school known as Woodhouse Business and Enterprise College) - an 11-16 academy in Amington, in the North-East of Tamworth.

Metrocab

In 1989 Reliant acquired Metrocab from MCW, and transferred the plant to Tamworth.

Natalie Bennett

She then worked for the Cootamundra Herald and the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth.

PAC CT/4 Airtrainer


This is also used by the RAAF, through the BAe College in Tamworth, as a basic trainer and for the Pilot Selection process

Peel High School

Established in 1976, Peel High School was named after Sir Robert Peel, an important British politician at the time of the discovery of the Tamworth region, by British settlers in Australia.

Peel Shire

In 2004, the City of Tamworth, and the surrounding shires Parry Shire, Nundle Shire, Manilla Shire and Barraba Shire were amalgamated to form the Tamworth Regional Council local government area.

Quidem

Stations for Banbury, Stratford, Warwick, Rugby and Coventry transmit from Honiley, Warwickshire, whilst services for Hinckley, Loughborough and Tamworth emanate from Coalville, Leicestershire.

Rank Strangers

In 1988, the Rank Strangers swept the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales, winning Best Group, Best Male Vocalist, and Best Composition.

Red-legged pademelon

In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth in New South Wales.

Robert Burdett

Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet (1716–1797), his grandson, English MP for Tamworth 1748–1768

Robert Marmion

Marmion was married twice, first, to Matilda de Beauchamp, by whom he had a son, Robert the Elder, and two daughters; secondly, to Philippa, by whom he had four sons; Robert the younger; William, who was dean of Tamworth; Geoffrey, who was ancestor of the Marmions of Checkendon, Stoke Marmion, and of Aynho, to which branch Shackerley Marmion the dramatist belonged; and lastly Phllip (died 1276).

Tamworth passed to Jane, daughter of Mazera Marmion, and wife of Baldwin de Freville, and Scrivelsby eventually passed with Margaret de Ludlow to Sir John Dymoke, in whose family it has since remained along with the title 'Champion of England'.

Sharp's Commercials

The company was taken over by the Reliant Motor Co Ltd of Tamworth, Staffs in February 1969 who eventually closed the Preston factory in August 1970, transferring the spare parts business for the Bond Minicar, 875 saloon, 875 Ranger van and Equipe models to a firm called Bob Joyner & Son in Oldbury in the English Midlands.

Shirley Thoms

There is a collection of bronze busts in Bicentennial Park, Tamworth that includes Shirley Thoms, Stan Coster, Tex Morton, Gordon Parsons, Barry Thornton and Buddy Williams.

The Lamb Ground

The Lamb Ground is a football stadium in the district of Kettlebrook, in Tamworth, England and the home of Tamworth F.C. It is approximately half a mile south of Tamworth railway station.

Timothy Akis

During a posthumous exhibition, the Tamworth Regional Gallery (Australia) identified Akis as one of Papua New Guinea's leading print and drawing artists, along with Mathias Kauage, John Man and Martin Morububuna.

Wood End, Stratford-on-Avon

To avoid confusion with other Wood Ends often referred to as Wood End, Warwickshire but as there are 3 places in Warwickshire it is commonly referred to as Wood End, Stratford-on-Avon to distinguish it from Wood End near Tamworth and Wood End near Fillongley.

Woolomin, New South Wales

Woolomin is a small settlement on the bank of the Peel River, about 20 km north of Nundle, New South Wales, Australia and about 40 km south east of the city of Tamworth.


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