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unusual facts about Mayfield, Midlothian


Newbattle Community High School

When first built, Newbattle High served the communities of Mayfield, Easthouses and Newtongrange, but following the closure of Greenhall High School in 1994, its catchment area expanded to include Gorebridge, Temple, Borthwick and North Middleton.


Ann Aiken

The decision received national attention and came in the case of the Brandon Mayfield lawsuit against the federal government for false detainment following the 2004 Madrid train bombings, in which Mayfield was uninvolved in the bombings.

Archibald Cockburn

Matilda Cockburn (Cockpen, Midlothian, 7 February 1772 - 1842), married at St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 13 July 1798 to Sir Robert Dundas of Beechwood, 1st Baronet Dundas (30 June 1761 - Heriot Row, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 4 January 1835), and had issue

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham

He was born at Leith, Midlothian to Robert Middleton, a customs collector of Bo'ness, Linlithgowshire, and Helen, daughter of Captain Charles Dundas RN and granddaughter of Sir James Dundas of Arniston.

Chick Farr

Athletic were a West Lothian club playing in the Midlothian Junior League (the forerunner to today's East Region Junior League).

Cinebar, Washington

Nearby attractions and points of interest include the Cowlitz River, the Tilton River, Lake Mayfield, Lake Mayfield Park, Mayfield Resort, and Ike Kinswa State Park.

Clan Graham

The first lands that the chiefs of Clan Graham appear to have held were around Dalkeith in Midlothian.

Coleg Harlech

The other long-term, mature students colleges in the UK are Ruskin College at Oxford; Northern College at Barnsley; Hillcroft College in Surbiton; Fircroft College at Birmingham; and Newbattle Abbey College in Midlothian, Scotland.

Curtis in Chicago

Mayfield is joined by The Impressions, Jerry Butler, Gene Chandler and others in a review of Mayfield's then-fifteen years as a recording artist.

Curtis/Live!

Originally released in May 1971 as a double LP on Mayfield's Curtom label (distributed through Neil Bogart's Buddah Records), the album's twelve tracks (track listing below is from the 2000 Rhino reissue, which includes two bonus tracks) — along with Mayfield's interstitial raps on the politics of the day — were recorded at Paul Colby's Bitter End nightclub in New York City.

David Johnstone Pryde

The youngest son of Matthew James John Maitland Pryde, of Gorebridge, Midlothian, he was educated at Lasswade Secondary School and at the Scottish Labour College.

Dinwiddie County Pullman Car

Dinwiddie County Pullman Car is a historic Pullman car located near Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia.

Duncanville Independent School District

This can be due to the Hispanics moving in from areas such as Oak Cliff and South Dallas, and African Americans moving to areas such as Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and to a lesser extent, Midlothian.

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Writer Julian Mayfield, who called her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "a work of art that eludes description", stated that Angelou's series set a precedent not only for other Black women writers, but for the genre of autobiography as a whole.

Frank Henderson Mayfield

Charles Drake worked with Mayfield to develop a fenestrated clip through which the posterior cerebral artery could pass, thus facilitating occlusion of basilar terminus aneurysms.

Gene Mayfield

Memorial services for Mayfield were held on October 5 at the Lake Ridge United Methodist Church in Lubbock, with the Reverend Don Caywood of Odessa officiating.

Ian Knott

He came through the ranks at the Mayfield and Wigan St Jude's amateur clubs and was acquired by Warrington Wolves as a youngster along with Paul Sculthorpe and Iestyn Harris.

J. C. Mayfield

J.C. Mayfield, an American businessman, bought one third of the rights to the Pemberton Medicine Company (founded by John Pemberton) in 1888.

James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline

He died at Collinton House, Midlothian, in April 1858, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Sir Ralph Abercromby, KCB, who was Secretary of Legation at Berlin and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sardinia between 1840 and 1851 and to The Hague between 1851 and 1858.

John Archibald Ballard

The Ballards were in Scotland for the birth of both their next two children: Brigadier General Colin Robert Ballard CB CMG on 22 July 1868 in Cockpen, Midlothian; and Joanna E, on 8 January 1870 in Portobello, Midlothian.

Kate Mayfield

Kate Mayfield (born 1969) is a recurring fictional character in Nelson DeMille novels.

Kilsyth Rangers F.C.

Some famous players to have played for the team are Drew Jarvie (Airdrieonians, Aberdeen, St. Mirren), William Wallace (Heart of Midlothian, Celtic), Frank McGarvey (St.Mirren, Liverpool, Celtic), David Stewart (Leeds United), Pat McMahon (Celtic, Aston Villa), George Mulhall (Aberdeen, Sunderland), Jim Storrie (Airdrieonians, Aberdeen, Leeds United), Gary McStay (Falkirk) plus many more.

Lakeland School District, Pennsylvania

It comprises the boroughs of Jermyn and Mayfield and the townships of Carbondale (to be distinguished from the city of Carbondale which it partially surrounds), Greenfield, and Scott.

Louis S. Epes

After graduating in 1901, he taught at Homer Military Academy in Oxford, North Carolina (1901-1903); West Kentucky College, Mayfield, Kentucky (1903-1904), and conducted a private collegiate preparatory school in Helena, Arkansas (1904-1906).

Majority Rules!

The series revolves around Rebecca (Becky) Richards (Tracy Spiridakos), a fifteen year-old whose life is changed when she is elected mayor of her hometown of Mayfield.

Mayfield Road, Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh's science campus, King's Buildings, between Mayfield Road and West Mains Road, contains over 40 buildings, including facilities run by the Scottish Agricultural College and the British Geological Survey.

Mayfield Ten

Following the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Mayfield Ten chose to go to Mayfield High School to expand their opportunities, gain access to better materials, and to broaden their educations.

Mayfield, New South Wales

The BHP constructed, in the early 1920s, a very fine mansion in Crebert Street (named after Peter Crebert 1825-1895, an immigrant from Wiesbaden in Germany), with extensive gardens, for their General Manager.

McHattie

Kevin McHattie (born 1993), Scottish footballer currently playing for Heart of Midlothian F.C.

Oasis Trust

Further "Church.co.uk" network churches have developed running alongside the communities of the Oasis Academies in Salford, Oldham, Brightstowe, Bristol, Enfield, Southampton (Lord's Hill & Mayfield), Immingham and Wintringham.

Owens Valley Indian War

As Evans' and Mayfield's force marched north, Evans' scouts reported that Lieutenant Noble with fifty men of Company A, 2nd Cavalry, from Fort Churchill on their way south to Putnam's Store were nearby.

Penicuik RFC

Penicuik Rugby Club is a rugby football club in the Scottish Rugby Union, playing their home games at Public Park, Penicuik, Midlothian.

Richard Stebbins

Stebbins was a social studies teacher at Mayfield Woods Middle School, in Elkridge, Maryland, from the 1991-2 school year until what appears to have been his retirement at the end of the 2008-9 school year.

Ross MacKenzie

MacKenzie moved from his native Scotland to the United States with his family as a teenager, settling in Midlothian, Virginia.

Sara Schaefer

Schaefer was raised in Midlothian, Virginia, the daughter of Billie Knight (née Hehl) and William Linwood "Bill" Schaefer.

Slacklining

Long slackline walking was pioneered most notably by Dean Potter, Larry Harpe, Ammon McNeely, and Braden Mayfield.

St Clement's Day

Similarly, Old Clem and Saint Dunstan, another blacksmith saint, said to have pulled off the devil’s nose with hot tongs, meet together on the same day at nearby Mayfield.

The Impressions

Future Mayfield compositions would feature an increasingly social and political awareness, including the following year's major hit and the group's best-known song, the gospel-influenced "People Get Ready", which hit #3 on the R&B charts and #14 on the pop charts.

Thomas Edd Mayfield

On October 28, 1951, Mayfield made the first of his nineteen recordings with "Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys", but he left the group within a year and was replaced by Jimmy Martin.

Thor of Tranent

Around 1150 he witnessed a grant by Robert, Bishop of St Andrews, passing over the church of Lohworuora (later renamed Borthwick, Midlothian) to Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow.

Tom De Haven

De Haven lives in Midlothian, Virginia with his wife of 35 years and has two grown daughters.

We're a Winner

The phrase "We're a Winner" was later used as the motto of Mayfield's record label Curtom Records.

Whitby Urban District

It comprised the present Whitby Town Council plus Briggswath (the present Scarborough Borough Council wards of Mayfield, Streonshalh and Whitby West Cliff).

William Edmonstone

He married at Zakynthos, Greece, on 13 July 1841, Mary Elizabeth Parsons (Newburn, Fife, 21 June 1823 – Cramond House, Midlothian, 11 August 1902), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. G. Parsons, who was British Resident on the island of Zante, at a time when the Ionian Islands were a British Protectorate.

William Mayfield

The site of the Mayfield cabin and the Choinumni village across the Kings River are now under Pine Flat Lake.

William McFarlane

Willie McFarlane (born 1923), Scottish football player (Heart of Midlothian)

William Morva

William Morva lived in the Midlothian, Virginia area until his father, Charles Morva, retired and moved the family to Blacksburg.

William Wilkie

On 17 May 1753 he was appointed, under the patronage of the Earl of Lauderdale, assistant to John Guthrie, parish minister of Ratho, Midlothian, on whose death in 1756 he became sole incumbent.

WRVQ

WRVQ-HD2 airs a classic rock format branded as "96.1 The Planet", also heard on FM translator W241AP 96.1 FM Midlothian, Virginia.


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