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8 unusual facts about Methuen


Cave In

Cave In is an American rock band that formed in 1995, in Methuen, Massachusetts.

Havelock-Belmont-Methuen

The railway is now run by Canadian Pacific as Kawartha Lakes Railway and its activity today consists of transporting nepheline syenite and crushed basalt rock from two mines north of Havelock operated by Unimin.

Henry C. Nevins Home for Aged and Incurables

Henry C. Nevins Home for Aged and Incurables was built in 1906 at 110 Broadway, Methuen, Massachusetts.

House at 491 Prospect Street

The House at 491 Prospect Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is locally significant as an excellent example of a Shingle Style house of the type built for well-to-do businessmen in Methuen and Lawrence around the turn of the 20th century.

James E. Simpson House

The James E. Simpson House is an American Craftsman Style bungalow, and an historic house at 606 Prospect Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.

Methuen

Methuen Treaty, a 1703 treaty on wine and textiles trade between Portugal and England

New Hampshire Route 28

The southern terminus of NH 28 is on the Massachusetts state line in Salem in south central New Hampshire; it keeps the Route 28 designation in the Massachusetts city of Methuen.

Roger A. Caras

Born May 28, 1928, in the rural town of Methuen, Massachusetts, Caras was raised in a family that encouraged love of animals.


Baron Methuen

The first Baron's grandfather, Paul Methuen, was the cousin and heir of the wealthy Sir Paul Methuen, a well-known politician, courtier, diplomat and patron of art and literature, who was the son of John Methuen (c. 1650–1706), Lord Chancellor of Ireland between 1697 and 1703 and ambassador to Portugal.

Boston Music Hall

Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts – currently houses the Boston Music Hall's organ

Charles Tenney

Charles H. Tenney, one of the "Methuen city fathers" who grew rich in Methuen, Massachusetts during the industrial boom of the late 19th century

Corsham Court

In 1745, Paul Methuen bought the house, which has since remained in the Methuen family.

It is currently the home of James Methuen-Campbell, the eighth generation of the Methuens to live there, and the Heir Presumptive to the title Baron Methuen.

Deborah Bull

Dancing Away (Methuen, October 1998) is a diary of The Royal Ballet's first year ‘on the road’, as the Royal Opera House underwent its extensive and controversial redevelopment.

Dictum of Kenilworth

Prestwich, Michael (1988), Edward I, London: Methuen London ISBN 0-413-28150-7.

Double-arch Sandstone Bridge

It was used to handle traffic between Methuen and Salem, New Hampshire.

Emerson House

Capt. Oliver Emerson Homestead, Methuen, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History

1935 C. Northcote Parkinson, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Admiral of the Red, London: Methuen & Co., 1934.

Julian Osgood Field

1894 Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil and Other Tales (London: Methuen & Co.)

Linda Dean Campbell

Since 2007 she has been a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 15th Essex – consisting Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the town of Methuen, Essex County.

Media influence

Trenaman J., and McQuail, D. (1961), Television and the Political ImageMethuen

Oonagh McDonald

She was Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and wrote The Future of Whitehall, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992 and is also the author of Parliament at Work, Methuen, 1989 and The Future of Retail Banking in Europe: A View from the Top, with Professor Kevin Keasey, John Wiley & Sons, 2002, and numerous research papers for a variety of clients including Deloitte's and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Pan-Africanism

Imanuel Geiss: Panafrikanismus. Zur Geschichte der Dekolonisation. Habilitation, EVA, Frankfurt am Main, 1968, English as: The Pan-African Movement, London: Methuen, 1974, ISBN 0-416-16710-1 and as: The Pan-African Movement. A history of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and Africa, New York: Africana Publ.

Reuben Johnson

Territory went on to win the National Student Drama Festival and Methuen Drama Award for Emerging Artists, Best Ensemble and Best Producer for Victoria Brittain.

Robert Hewison

Monty Python: the case against: irreverence, scurrility, profanity, vilification and licentious abuse (London: Methuen, 1981)

Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen

Methuen worked as design engineer for Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company from 1957 to 1967, and then as computer systems engineer for IBM UK Ltd from 1968 to 1975 and for Rolls-Royce plc from 1975 to 1994.

St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster

Robin Bruce Lockhart, Half-way to Heaven: The Hidden Life of the Sublime Carthusians (London: Thames Methuen, 1985)

The Crazy Gang

Roger Wilmut (1985), Kindly Leave the Stage, Methuen - ISBN 0-413-59290-1

The Magician Trilogy

The Magician Trilogy is a series of three children's fantasy novels by the English-Welsh author Jenny Nimmo, first published by Methuen 1986 to 1989.

Wellington House

Several of the writers agreed to write pamphlets and books that would promote the government's point of view; these were printed and published by such well-known publishers as Hodder & Stoughton, Methuen, Oxford University Press, John Murray, Macmillan and Thomas Nelson.

Whispers in the Graveyard

Whispers in the Graveyard is a children's novel by Theresa Breslin, published by Methuen in 1994.

William de Bois Maclaren

Maclaren wrote several other books including Climbs and Changes, Chuckles from a Cheery Corner, and Word Pictures of War (a book of poetry based on experiences of the First World War, published by Methuen, London, in 1917).

William Morris Davis

Richard Chorley, R. P. Beckinsale, and A. J. Dunn, The History of the Study of Landforms, Vol 2, The Life and Work of William Morris Davis (Methuen, 1973)


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