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3 unusual facts about 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).

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.


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.

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.


see also

Leadenham Aerodrome

No. 38 Squadron RFC (1916-1918) detachments from Melton Mowbray Aerodrome with Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 and Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2s.

Melton Mowbray Navigation

The first proposals to link Melton Mowbray to the canal network were made in 1780, following on from the success achieved by the Loughborough Navigation and the Erewash Canal.

Melton Mowbray railway station

Just outside Melton Mowbray station the main line is joined by the Old Dalby Test Track.

Old Dalby

Old Dalby is the location of the control centre of the former British Rail Research Division's railway test track, which runs between Melton Mowbray and Edwalton and which was universally known in the industry as simply 'Old Dalby'.