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2 unusual facts about New Road


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.


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.

Derek Pearson

Pearson made his first-class debut for Worcestershire at Worcester against Cambridge University in June 1954, taking four wickets; his first victim was Colin Smith.

Gerald Seeley

Gerald Henry Seeley (9 May 1903—23 July 1941) was an English cricketer who played a single first-class game, for Worcestershire against Nottinghamshire at Worcester in 1921.

Maneer Mirza

After a number of second-team appearances the previous year, Mirza made his first-class debut in Worcestershire's drawn game against Pakistan A at New Road in July 1997.

Robert Freebairn

Freebairn died in Buckingham Place, New Road, Marylebone, on 23 Jan. 1808, aged 42, leaving a widow and four children.


see also

Animal Hospital

The animal hospitals are still in use today and are situated at Sonderburg Road in Islington, North London, Clarendon Drive in Putney, South London, and Eccles New Road, Salford, Greater Manchester.

Appleby Parva

The late medieval settlement pattern was largely obliterated by the construction of Appleby Hall, as older surrounding properties were demolished and 'New Road' was built to replace the earlier road that passed by the front of the house; so creating a private garden and parkland around the house, which was then landscaped.

Bridge of the Americas

After the canal opened, the increasing number of cars, and the construction of a new road leading to Chiriquí, in the west of Panama, increased the need for some kind of crossing.

Brig-Glis

The construction of the new road over the Simplon Pass in 1801-05, the expansion of the old road between 1949–60 and the construction of a national highway starting in 1960, have allowed increasing traffic through Brig. In 1890-1905 stagecoaches transported 152,816 persons to Domodossola over the pass.

Burma Campaign 1944

By the start of 1944, the new road had reached the far side of the Patkai mountains, and Stilwell was preparing to advance on Kamaing and Myitkyina in northern Burma.

Chippenham railway station

The first arch, over New Road, appears to have been modelled on the Roman triumphal arch.

Colostethus palmatus

Near the Villavicencio to Bogotá road it became locally extinct but returned to its previous breeding sites when a new road was built removing the traffic away from the old highway.

Croxley Green

John Theodore Tussaud (1858–1943) the great-grandson of Madame Tussaud lived at The Hawthorns, 17 New Road, in the early years of the 20th century (c1902-1914).

Donnington Bridge

The following June the contract in the sum of £309,903 16s 11d was awarded to The Cementation Company for the construction of the bridges and the new road and for the demolition of the free Ferry link foot bridge.

Gawler bypass road

The new road was built to four-lane standard to provide a faster route between Adelaide and Gawler, whilst reducing the amount of traffic on Main North Road and Salisbury Highway.

Headington Road

The road did not exist until 1775, when it was cut through the countryside as part of the scheme to replace the old route from Oxford to London (via Cheney Lane, Old Road, Shotover, and Wheatley) by a new road via Stokenchurch.

Holden Viaduct

The Leek New Road, which runs in an almost straight line between Endon and Cobridge, first appeared on the one-inch Ordnance Survey maps in the 1850s.

Interstate 44

The section of road to Halltown is a completely new road, not bypassing any previous highways.

Jerusalem Road 21

Jerusalem Road 21, is the designation of a new road beginning at Highway 1 between Ramat Shlomo and Shu'afat northward to Beit Hanina and the Atarot Industrial Park.

Kilkenny Central Access Scheme

Kilkenny Central Access Scheme (CAS), previously Kilkenny Inner Relief Road Scheme is a new road, improvement of existing roads and junctions, and a new concrete River Nore bridge, with provisions for footpaths and cycle lanes throughout.

Kiryat Sanz, Netanya

The purchase price of the land was covered with part of a $1 million check that the Rebbe had received from the City of New York, which was planning to build a new road in place of the ageing buildings occupied by the Rebbe's Yesodei HaTorah school in Brooklyn.

Louisiana Highway 73

When the Jefferson Highway auto trail was designated in 1916, Clay Cut and Hope Villa Roads became part of the new road (there is now another Claycut Road in Baton Rouge, located south of the present-day LA-73).

New Inn

There is a fire station located on New Road that serves the Pontypool, Griffithstown, Sebastopol and New Inn, and the surrounding villages of Little Mill and Penperlleni.

Pickering railway station

As well as the fine station building the York and North Midland Railway also provided other characteristic Andrews buildings, a stone built goods shed with wooden extension and a gas works - one of the earliest surviving railway gasworks buildings - occupied the area now known as 'the Ropery', the goods shed was demolished to make way for the new road but the gas works retort and purifier house still stands today adjacent to the new road.

Raftsund Bridge

It is part of Lofast, the new road E10 connecting the Lofoten islands to the mainland, which was opened in December 2007.

Rapibus

On December 9, 2007, Gatineau Councillor Alain Riel told Le Droit that the Rapibus should be extended westward towards Aylmer along the Boulevard des Allumettières corridor until Boulevard Saint-Raymond citing concerns that residents living in nearby Le Plateau and newer communities in Aylmer near the new road will abandon public transit for car usage.

Ringway 1

The only parts of Ringway 1 that were constructed were part of the West Cross Route between North Kensington and Shepherds Bush which was opened by Michael Heseltine in 1970, simultaneously with Westway, to loud protests; some residents hung a huge banners with 'Get us out of this Hell- Rehouse Us Now' outside their windows and protesters disrupted the opening procession by driving a lorry the wrong way along the new road.

Samuel C. Mills

After arriving at Camp Floyd, Mills accompanied Simpson's detachment in surveying a new road to Fort Bridger up Provo Canyon.

Southern Distributor Road

The new road was designed to improve the environment in the city centre, taking traffic away from residential areas, and improving access to industrial areas in the east and south of the city.

St George's Forane Church, Kulathuvayal

Utilizing the 6000 Rupees he contributed, a new car was bought from Coimbatore by late Prof. K. M. Chandy (former Gujarat Governor) and the bishop was taken to Kulathuvayal in that along the new road.

Stocksbridge

The new road links the M1 motorway at Junction 35A (and J36) to the Woodhead pass (which is one of the main trans-Pennine routes from Sheffield to Manchester) bypassing the towns of Stocksbridge and Deepcar, taking away the steelworks traffic through the town as well.

Tagab District, Kapisa

The 700 plus forces from the 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment and 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment attempted to clear the area where a new road was being built to help supply NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The Dell, Leamington Spa

As the town grew, however, a new road was needed to connect the town to its neighbour Warwick.

The Franciscan Friary, Lichfield

In 1920 the 11 acre estate was sold to Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper (MP for Walsall), who gave it to the city for the purpose of developing the area and laying out a new road.