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unusual facts about Middleton, Greater Manchester


Martin Coogan

Born and brought up in Middleton, Greater Manchester, Coogan attended Cardinal Langley RC Grammar School, as did his younger brothers, Steve and Brendan.


Arnold Safroni-Middleton

He played the violin in the Orchestra of "Her Majesty's Theatre" in Sydney, the Orchestra of the Opera House in Auckland, the Providence Opera House in Providence (Rhode Island), the Tokyo Orchestra, the Government House (Sarawak) Orchestra and the Government House (Hayti) Mexico Orchestra.

Barbodhan

The largest population of Barbodhians outside India is in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where the community settled in the 1950s and 1960s.

Baron Scales

The Scales family's main residences were Middleton in Norfolk, Newsells in Hertfordshire and Rivenhall in Essex but also held other lands including Ouresby and Torneton in Lincolnshire.

Changez Charity

In January 2011, Catherine Middleton (now The Duchess of Cambridge) expressed interest in possible patronage.

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.

Chief Masconomet

Masconomet Regional High School, serving Topsfield, Boxford and Middleton, Massachusetts, honors the sagamore by taking his name.

He is known for his quitclaim deed ceding all the tribal land, which extended from Cape Ann to the Merrimack River, as far inland as North Andover, Massachusetts and Middleton, Massachusetts, and as far to the southwest as the Danvers River, to John Winthrop the Younger, his heirs and all the settlers of eastern Essex County for a sum of 20 pounds, about 100 dollars.

Clearwell

In the mid-19th century, the interior of the Court was refurbished by Caroline, Countess of Dunraven (d. 1870), wife of Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (d. 1850) and daughter of another Thomas Wyndham, who held Clearwell from 1814 to her death in 1870, to the designs of John Middleton.

Coinslot

Coinslot originated as a section of the World's Fair newspaper, published by the eponymous publishing house based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, before becoming a separate title at the end of the 1960s.

Conyers Middleton

Middleton was one of the thirty fellows of Trinity College who on 6 February 1710 petitioned the Bishop of Ely, as visitor of the college, to take steps against Richard Bentley the Master, at odds with the fellowship.

Deep structure

According to Middleton (1990), Schenkerian analysis of music corresponds to the Chomskyan notion of deep structure, applying to a two-level generative structure for melody, harmony, and rhythm, of which the analysis by Lee (1985) of rhythmical structure is an instance.

Dorning Rasbotham

One of his sons, another Dorning Rasbotham, is associated with Alkrington Hall, Middleton, Rochdale, Lancashire, a noble brick building surrounded by a park of 80 acres (324,000 m²), whose architect was Giacomo Leoni (1686–1746).

Edgar Middleton

Middleton's journalistic career continued, with appointments including aeronautical editor of the London Daily Mail, London Correspondent for the New York Sun and correspondent for the Calgary Herald in their new London office.

Empress Mill, Ince

Empress Mill, Ince was a single storey shed mill alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, spinning cotton in Ince, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

Eviota readerae

It has a very limited distribution in the southwest Pacific, being found only on the Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs.

Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton

He succeeded to the barony on his father's death in 1729 and inherited estates at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (where he lived) and at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire.

Freehold Metrolink station

The 159 is operated by Manchester Community Transport and heads northbound to Chadderton town centre, continuing to Oldham, and runs southbound to Hollinwood, continuing to Middleton via Woodhouses, Failsworth and New Moston.

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton was a member of several national, state, and local medical associations: the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physians, the American Thoracic Society, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Aesculapian Society, the Indiana Thoracic Society, and the Marion County Medical Society.

Middleton took short courses for additional training at Harvard University; the University of London, England; the University of Michigan; Indiana University; and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

Haslingden Canal

The Haslingden Canal was a proposed canal link between the Bury arm of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in Greater Manchester, England, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Accrington, England, passing through Haslingden.

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST

The NCB continued to use Austerities in the 1970s and a small number remained in service until the early 1980s, notably at Bickershaw Colliery, Greater Manchester.

James Middleton

Bonnor Middleton, born James Middleton, 19th century South African cricketer

James Tunstall

‘Epistola ad virum eruditum Conyers Middleton,’ (1741) an attack on the life of Cicero by Conyers Middleton that questioned the genuineness of Cicero's letters to Brutus, which Middleton had accepted without reserve.

Jennifer James

Jennifer James (born Jennifer Marie Reynolds; 3 December 1977) is an English actress born in Billinge Higher End, Wigan in Greater Manchester.

John Maines

In addition to his everyday banding activities Maines was for many years the presenter of the long running BBC weekly band programme "GMR Brass” and in 1999 received the Manchester Music Makers award for his contribution to music broadcasting in the Greater Manchester area.

Johnny Lee Middleton

Since 1996, TSO has released four more albums – The Christmas Attic (1998), Beethoven's Last Night (2000), The Lost Christmas Eve (2004), and Night Castle' (2009) – all of which feature Middleton on bass.

Kaikoura

Freight trains also pass through the town, mainly carrying freight between the marshalling yards at Middleton in Christchurch and the Interislander rail ferries at Picton.

Kulveer Ranger

At the 2005 General Election, Ranger stood as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Makerfield, Greater Manchester, against the Labour incumbent Ian McCartney.

Marie Slater

Marie "Maz" Slater (born in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1972) is a British reality TV star infamous for her role as the 'Miss Nasty' resort manager of Faliraki in ITV show Club Reps.

Massachusetts Route 62

It shares a quarter-mile long concurrency with Route 28 before continuing eastward through the town into Essex County and the town of Middleton.

Michael Billig

This strand of work is shown in the collectively written work Ideological Dilemmas (1988 - with Condor, Edwards, Gane, Middleton and Radley), Banal Nationalism, and in his major study of ideology and the UK royal family, Talking of the Royal Family (1998, 2nd Edition).

Middleton Park

At the northern end of park there is an earthwork from 1204 demarcating the boundary between Middleton and Beeston.

Middleton Park House

Middleton Park House was built c.1850 by George Boyd-Rochfort, who commissioned architect George Papworth to design it and oversee its construction.

Middleton S. Barnwell

Middleton S. Barnwell was born September 9, 1882 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Middleton Tract, California

Other notable personages who owned cabins in the Middleton Tract include famed Palo Alto Architect Birge Clark, Round Table Pizza founder Bill Larson, Stanford University Professor of Education Avlarez, and one of the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation's founders Asa Dotzler.

Mike Paradinas

After the material was played for Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton — the duo behind Global Communication and the heads of Evolution Records — it was to be released; however, recording commitments later forced Pritchard and Middleton to withdraw their agreement.

Mountains and hills of England

The Yorkshire Dales end at Skipton, and a short distance to the south is a range of moors that rises up between the urban cores of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.

Pennine Blue

Pennine Blue, later known as First Pennine, was a bus company serving the Tameside area of Greater Manchester, England.

Saddleworth, South Australia

Saddleworth was originally established as one of many settlements on the road to Burra, and was named after Saddleworth Lodge pastoral station, a local landholding which itself was named after a town of Saddleworth in Greater Manchester (formerly in Yorkshire), England.

Samuel Roper

He was the eldest son of Thomas Roper of Heanor, Derbyshire, by his second wife, Anne, daughter and co-heir of Alvered Gresbrooke of Middleton, Warwickshire.

Sedgeford Torc

The torc was then acquired for the British Museum through the Duchy of Lancaster and with the assistance of the Christy Trust, and the finder, landowner A. E. Middleton was awarded the full market value of £3,300.

South Middleton School District

South Middleton School District is a midsized, suburban, public school district located in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania.

Stockport Sports F.C.

Stockport Sports F.C. is a football club based in Woodley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

The Peel Group

The Group moved into the energy sector in 2008 with the opening of Scout Moor Wind Farm on the West Pennine Moors in Greater Manchester nearby Edenfield and Rochdale.

Thomas Middleton

Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.

The Revenger's Tragedy was adapted into Alex Cox's film Revengers Tragedy, the opening credits of which attribute the play's authorship to Middleton.

Tropidophis greenwayi

Found in the West Indies in the Caicos Islands, particularly on the islands of Ambergris Cay, Long Caye, Middle Caicos, Middleton Cay, North Caicos, South Caicos, and probably also on Providenciales.

Women Beware Women

A modern adaptation by Howard Barker at the Royal Court Theatre in 1986, in which the first two-thirds of Middleton's play were preserved but the ending was entirely revamped; among other changes, Sordido rapes Bianca before her wedding.


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