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2 unusual facts about New Road, Worcester


Peter Connell

Playing at New Road, Worcester, Ireland received a standing ovation as they walked off the pitch.

Rachael Haynes

Haynes then made her Test debut in the one-off match at New Road, Worcester.


Abberley

On the opposite side of Abberley Hill to the village, to the south of the Worcester-Tenbury road, lies Abberley Hall.

Alfred John Agg

He was educated at the Worcester grammar school, and entered the service of the Great Western Railway Company as a clerk at Reading in 1846, where he remained until 1850, when he emigrated to Australia.

Assumption High School

Assumption Preparatory School or Assumption High School, a school in Worcester, Massachusetts

Bangorian Controversy

Hoadly himself wrote A Reply to the Representations of Convocation to answer Sherlock, Andrew Snape, provost of Eton, and Francis Hare, then dean of Worcester.

Bernard Sendall

Sendall grew up in the town of Worcester where he attended the Royal Grammar School.

British Rail Class 166

Their main destinations included fast-trains to Reading, Newbury and Oxford, with some services continuing beyond Oxford to Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon, or along the Cotswold Line to Evesham, Worcester, Great Malvern and Hereford.

Broadcloth

Around 1500, broadcloth was made in a number of districts of England, including Essex and Suffolk in southern East Anglia, the West Country Clothing District (Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, east Somerset - sometimes with adjacent areas), at Worcester, Coventry, Cranbrook in Kent and some other places.

The raw material for broadcloth from Worcester was wool from the Welsh border counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire, known as Lemster (i.e. Leominster) wool.

Butch Songin

Songin also played 1 game for the Worcester Warriors of the Eastern Hockey League during the 1954-55 season.

Chris Whelan

Whelan then returned to first-team action, and in June returned his best List A figures of 4–78 against the New Zealanders at Worcester.

Deadwater Drowning

Following the release of their self-titled EP, the band continued playing shows in their local area including a performance at the 5th annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Donald Stoltenberg

In 1975 he authored two educational texts, Collagraph Printmaking and The Artist and the Built Environment, both published by Davis Publications of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Edward Somerset

Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (1601?–1667), styled Lord Herbert of Ragland, English nobleman, son of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester

Ernest Payne

By the end of June 1903 he was referred to as "the Worcester Wonder" in The Cyclist.

In 1910 he played for Worcester Early Closers, before signing for Worcester City, and he was in the team that won the Birmingham League in 1912.

Eyes of the Dead

On April 19, 2012 EOTD took part in the 14th annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, at The Palladium in Worcester, MA, featuring headliners Thy Will Be Done, and Last Chance to Reason, and then again returned to the Palladium June 10 for the Worcester Deathfest, featuring Six Feet Under, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Revocation, Fit for an Autopsy, and Vattnet Viskar

Facing Reality

Martin Glaberman, however, has disputed this claim in a review of Worcester's book in Against the Current magazine.

George E. Royce

His great grandfather Adonijah Rice, was a member of Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War, and his great, great grandfather Jonas Rice was the original European settler of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Henry Milbourne

Milbourne served as a steward at the Jesuit college at The Cwm which was owned by the Worcester Estate, in the parish of Llanrothal, Herefordshire in the 1670s.

Henry Perky

The biscuits proved more popular than the machines, so Perky moved East and opened his first bakery in Boston, Massachusetts and then in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1895, retaining the name of The Cereal Machine Company, and adding the name of the Shredded Wheat Company.

High Sheriff of Hereford and Worcester

The office of High Sheriff of Hereford and Worcester came into existence with the county of Hereford and Worcester on 1 April 1974 under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972.

Historic places in Framingham, Massachusetts

On February 22, 1775, the British general Thomas Gage sent two officers and an enlisted man out of Boston to survey the route to Worcester.

JJ Goodman

Goodman was born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, he moved to Worcester as a child where he started collecting glasses at a local nightclub aged 15.

John Conte

In 1981, Conte successfully prosecuted Worcester crime boss Carlo Mastrototaro, a Genovese crime family caporegime who also was affiliated with the Patriarca crime family.

John J. Paris, S.J.

Before coming to the Boston College faculty, he held the positions of Professor of Religious Studies College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA from 1972-1990, then Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1982-1994, and then Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Tufts University School of Medicine (1985-1998).

Lesley Vainikolo

He finished the 07-08 Season joint 4th top try scorer with Worcester wing Miles Benjamin with a total of 9 tries.

Lords Spiritual

In 1688, the issue arose during the trial of the Seven Bishops—William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, Bishop of Winchester; Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells; John Lake, Bishop of Chester; William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester; Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely and Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough—by a common jury.

Massachusetts Banishment Act

Timothy Ruggles, of Hardwick, in the county of Worcester, a member of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765

Michael Foster

Michael John Foster (born 1963), British politician, former MP for Worcester

National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern Worcester, Massachusetts

Two listings overlap into other parts of Worcester: one of the 1767 Milestones is located in northwestern Worcester, and the Blackstone Canal Historic District traverses all three sections of the city.

National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts

There are 103 properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester, Massachusetts, west of I-190 and the north-south section of I-290 and north of Massachusetts Route 122, which are listed here.

Two listings overlap into other parts of Worcester: one of the 1767 Milestones is located in eastern Worcester, and the Blackstone Canal Historic District traverses all three sections of the city.

New England Interstate Route 12

New England Route 12 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running from Groton, Connecticut, through Worcester, Massachusetts, and Keene, New Hampshire, to Morrisville, Vermont.

Robin Walker

Robin is a long-term supporter of both Worcester RFC "The Worcester Warriors" and the Worcestershire County Cricket Club.

Walker has campaigned in three elections, working for Worcester man and then Secretary of State for Health, Stephen Dorrell in 1997, for Richard Adams, the Conservative Candidate for Worcester in 2001 and as press officer for Oliver Letwin, then Shadow Chancellor, in 2005.

Samuel McClellan

He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, married Rachel Abbe (a descendant of Plymouth, Massachusetts Governor, William Bradford) on March 5, 1766, and is buried in Woodstock, Connecticut.

Sante Graziani

From 1951 to 1981, Graziani was at the School of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he taught and was also Dean.

Silas Taylor

Under the Commonwealth Taylor had access to the cathedral libraries of Hereford and Worcester for manuscripts; from the latter he copied an original grant of King Edgar, printed in John Selden's Mare Clausum.

St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church

St. Paul's by-the-sea Protestant Episcopal Church, Ocean City, Worcester County, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Maryland

Synod of Worcester

The Synod of Worcester was conducted by the Bishop of Worcester, England, Walter de Cantilupe on 26 July 1240.

Thomas Tomkins

In 1612 Tomkins oversaw the construction in Worcester cathedral of a magnificent new organ by Thomas Dallam, the foremost organ-builder of the day.

Tideman

Robert Tideman of Winchcombe, medieval Bishop of Llandaff and Bishop of Worcester

Timeline of heat engine technology

1665 - Edward Somerset, the Second Marquess of Worcester builds a working steam fountain.

University of Birmingham Boat Club

The day begins with a coach drive to Worcester in the afternoon, followed by Pimm's, strawberries and cream, and lots of socialising.

Wachusett Mountain

Mount Wachusett, the highest point in Worcester County, Massachusetts

Wescott

John Wescott Three-Decker, historic triple decker in Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester Council election, 2008

Three members of the Shadow Cabinet including the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne visited Worcester to campaign for the Conservatives.

Worcester County District Courthouses

The District Court of Maryland for Worcester County Ocean City Courthouse is located at 6505 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, Maryland, just two blocks from the beach.

Worcester, Bosch Group

The company has strong connections to the Worcester Warriors Rugby club through Chairman and founder Cecil Duckworth CBE, and that was renewed in 2010 when Worcester, Bosch Group was named as the Warriors new shirt sponsor up to the 2012-13 season.


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