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6 unusual facts about Lockwood


Brockholes

The factory produced the motors to turn the gears, made by David Brown Gears in Lockwood, which turned the revolving restaurant at the top of the Post Office Tower in London.

Crosland Moor

Just off Blackmoorfoot Road beyond the Crosland Heath Golf Course is the Crosland Moor airfield which was established by the David Brown Engineering Works based in Lockwood.

Opened in 1883, the park mainly consists of woodland and is on a hillside that looks over the Holme Valley and the Lockwood railway viaduct.

Danbury and Norwalk Railroad

There were plans in which the D&N would be a link in a railroad connecting New York and Boston, but these died with LeGrand Lockwood, the nephew and financial backer of Edwin Lockwood, in 1872.

Lockwood, West Virginia

Belva, West Virginia, another community in Nicholas County named for Lockwood.

Southern Belting Company Building

Located on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, the Garnett Station Building was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1915.


Al Lockwood

During the Iraq War, Lockwood was recalled into the RAF, having been previously discharged, to become the British military spokesman based at United States Central Command in Qatar.

Belva Ann Lockwood

Lockwood ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots.

Charles A. Lockwood

Lockwood also acted as Commander Allied Naval Forces, Western Australia, until July 1942, overseeing the major bases at Fremantle and Exmouth (Codename "Potshot"), amongst others.

Duncan invited Lockwood to be his guest that year at Jake's Opening Hunting Club, near Boonville, California.

Daniel N. Lockwood

Lockwood was elected as a Democrat to the 43rd United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1879.

Lockwood was elected again to the 52nd and 53rd United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1895.

Danny Lockwood

In 2007 Lockwood was the subject of a high profile libel trial initiated by the then Dewbury MP Shahid Malik, which ended in a hung jury after a two-week trial at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Eliphalet Lockwood

Lockwood organized the first voluntary fire department in Norwalk.

ELTO

Meanwhile, the Evinrude Motor Co. floundered, and in 1929, Stephen Foster Briggs, co-founder of its new owner, Briggs & Stratton Corporation; proposed a merger between the Evinrude Motor Co., the Elto Outdoor Motor Co., and the Lockwood Motor Co. of Jackson, Michigan.

Francis Rattenbury

He began his architectural career with an apprenticeship in 1884 to the "Lockwood and Mawson Company" in England, where he worked until he left for Canada.

Green marketing

"What chief marketing officers are always looking for is touch points with consumers, and this is just a big, big, big touch point that's not being served," says Mintel Research Director David Lockwood.

Henry Hayes Lockwood

Lockwood entered the Union Army as colonel of the 1st Delaware Infantry, was commissioned a brigadier general of volunteers on August 8, 1861, and served in the defenses of the lower Potomac River.

Hogansville, Georgia

In 1905 the mill was bought by Consolidated Duck of Delaware, who sold it to Lockwood-Green of Boston in 1913.

Johnny Lockwood

Lockwood spent a year with television series Sunnyside Up, went to the US to perform in Las Vegas, returned to Australia for a two-year run with classic comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show, and then played the lead role in Canterbury Tales.

Johnny Lockwood's daughter Joanna Lockwood née Walker, is an actor who appeared briefly in Number 96 in 1977 and followed this with a long-running role in police drama Cop Shop.

Kakadu Variations

Lockwood, L. (2000) in Pianist, scholar, connoisseur: essays in honor of Jacob Lateiner. Brubaker, B. and Gottlieb, J., eds.

Lockwood Aircam

Designed by Phil Lockwood, founder of Lockwood Aircraft, it was built for the National Geographic Society for research and photography in the Ndoki Rain Forest in the northern Congo Basin.

Lockwood Folly River

The river name appears on a John Ogilby map from 1671, making Lockwood's Folly River one of the oldest named rivers in North Carolina.

Lockwood–Mathews Mansion

The mansion has been used by survivors and victims of the September 11 attacks.

Lorna E. Lockwood

Lorna Lockwood was born on March 24, 1903, in Douglas, Arizona Territory, to Daisy Maude Lincoln and Alfred Collins Lockwood.

Michael Lockwood

Crash Holly (1971–2003), professional wrestler, real name Mike Lockwood

Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament

The Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the New Breed Wrestling Association (NBWA) promotion, which took place on March 18, 2005 at ZB Falcons in South Bend, Indiana.

Nottingham Conference Centre

The Centre’s three Victorian character rooms are situated in the Arkwright building, originally built between 1877 and 1881 by Lockwood and Mawson, the prominent Yorkshire architectural practice founded by Henry Francis Lockwood.

Preston Lockwood

Preston Lockwood (30 October 1912 – 24 April 1996) was an English actor.

R. G. Surdam

He was born in Dutchess County, New York, the eldest of four children of Lewis L. Surdam (c. 1810-1878) and Julia Lockwood (c. 1813-?).

Samuel D. Lockwood

Lockwood practiced law in Batavia for a year before relocating his practice to Sempronius, New York for about a year and a half.

Sao Saimong

At Cambridge University Library, in 1982 and 1983, he worked with Wilfrid Lockwood and Andrew Dalby on the Scott Collection, formed by J. G. Scott, British administrator in the Shan States, whose activities he had already chronicled in his 1969 publication The Shan States and the British Annexation.

State Bar of Michigan

Kenneth N. Sanborn and Charles C. Lockwood assisted Milo Radulovich, a resident of Dexter, Michigan, in his fight against the United States Air Force.

Tamam Shud

The group was invited to contribute music for the soundtrack for the Alby Falzon surf movie Morning of the Earth and Falzon initially wanted Tamam Shud to provide all the music, but after G. Wayne Thomas took over as producer, other artists were added, and Tamam Shud's involvement was eventually reduced to just three tracks - the instrumental track "Bali Waters" (featuring Lockwood on flute), and the songs "Sea The Swells" and "First Things First".

Ted Lockwood

Ted Lockwood (May 19, 1945 – 2005) was an aesthetic plastic surgeon in private practice and clinical assistant professor of plastic surgery at the University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, Kansas.

The Better Angels

Patrick Graham was renamed Patrick Hale (Sean Connery), and the only other names retained from the novel were Lockwood (George Grizzard), Ibn Awad (Ron Moody), Mallory (Leslie Nielsen), Philindros (G. D. Spradlin), and Hagreb.

Thomas Meakin Lockwood

Thomas Meakin Lockwood (1830 – 15 July 1900) was an English architect whose main works are in and around Chester, Cheshire.

Tongue-twister

In the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain, movie star Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) uses tongue-twisters while learning proper diction so he can make the transition from silent films to "talkies" in 1920's Hollywood.

William W. Lockwood

William W. Lockwood (William Wirt or Bill) (1906-1978) was a noted academic who was Research Secretary (1935-1940) and Executive Secretary (1941-1943) at the Institute of Pacific Relations.


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