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unusual facts about North West England



Albert Gubay

Gubay sold the mainly North West and Irish based chain of 21 locations and 150,000 members to the private equity arm of Legal & General, in July 2004 for £70 million.

Children's Adventure Farm Trust

Each year the Adventure Farm helps 3,000 children aged 4 to 16, coming from all over the North West, with people coming from Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, North Wales and Derbyshire.

Chris Davies

In December 2009 Davies appeared on The Politics Show North West alongside Nick Griffin on a debate regarding climate change and the then forthcoming 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which both men were attending as part of the EU Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Lee Oakes

Oakes is originally from Haslington near Crewe in Cheshire, North West England, and attended Sandbach School for Boys, as well as being trained at the Cheshire School of Performing Arts in Ellesmere Port.

National Transmission System

For distribution to houses, National Grid plc (this division is based in Northampton) owns the network in North West England, the West Midlands, the East Midlands, the East of England and North London.

Pennington Flash Country Park

One of the premier birdwatching sites in North West England, over 230 bird species have been recorded on site including: Black-faced Bunting, Nightingale, Marsh Harrier, Spoonbill and Leach's Storm-petrel.

Tangerine Confectionery

In April 2009 the company was ranked 23rd in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100, published by The Sunday Times, and was the highest North West entry in the table, which lists the 100 private UK's companies with the fastest growing profits.

Wingates Band

Wingates Band is a brass band based in Wingates, a settlement near the town of Westhoughton in north-west England.


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Dr. O'Dowd

Most of the filming for Dr. O'Dowd took place at the Warner Bros. studios in Teddington, with outdoor sequences shot in Cumberland in north west England and in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Ethyle Batley

Batley was born Alice Ethel Murray in December 1876 in Wigan, north-west England, the second daughter of an iron merchant.

Garden Corner

However, despite extensive restoration, after buying a £7.5 million stake in Everton F.C., Gregg was spending most of his time in north-west England.

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp is a retired working-class woman from Darwen in North West England, who has a knack for jumping to conclusions and solving crimes of varying bafflement which often are too minor to concern the police.

Richard Dinnis

He currently works as a football commentator for BBC Radio Lancashire, commentating on local football games in North West England.

Roach River

River Roch, a river in Greater Manchester in North West England

Saint Bee

Saint Bega, Dark Ages saint of what is now north-west England

Stanley Street Quarter

In his 2011 lecture 'Policing Sex Between Men: 1850-1971', historian Jeff Evans examined 70,000 criminal records dating back to 1850 and was able to shed light on hundreds of records of men prosecuted under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (the law used to prosecute Oscar Wilde) found in the court papers of Liverpool and North West England.

Tom Bloxham

Bloxham co-founded Urban Splash with architect Jonathan Falkingham and initially converted redundant properties, mainly formerly industrial buildings, in north west England into city centre residential loft apartments.