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unusual facts about Old Library, Bristol



1628 in poetry

Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland

Andy Gresh

While in college, Gresh interned for various sports radio stations including WFAN in New York City and ESPN Radio in Bristol.

Anne Marie Anderson

Following graduation from Hofstra, Anderson relocated to Bristol, CT and worked as a production assistant, assignment editor and associate producer on ESPN staples such as SportsCenter, NFL Gameday and Outside the Lines.

Barry Rogerson

In the course of his episcopal ministry in Bristol, Rogerson ordained the first 32 female priests in the Church of England on 12 March 1994 at his cathedral.

Beddoe Rees

He was unable to support Asquith’s position of allowing Labour to take office, although he told his electors in Bristol that there was no Liberal principle involved it was merely a matter of being true to the position on which he had fought the last election.

Bristol F.2 Fighter

A total of 5,329 aircraft were eventually built, mostly by Bristol but also by Standard Motors, Armstrong Whitworth and even the Cunard Steamship Company.

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Former students from around the world gathered in Bristol for his funeral at which the eulogy was delivered by former student Stephanie Cole.

Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

The springs at Bath, in Bristol Township, were popular among wealthy Philadelphians for a while, but lost popularity to the ones in Saratoga, New York.

Bristol Type 603

The third series of 603, introduced in 1982 and continuing until 1994, saw Bristol adopt for the first time the names of the famous Bristol Aeroplane Company models for its cars.

Cabot, Bristol

Spike Island is the narrow strip of land between the Floating Harbour to the north and the tidal New Cut of the River Avon to the south, from the dock entrance to the west to Bathurst Basin in the east.

Catherine B. Gulley

The first to be shown at the Academy in 1908 was titled, "Finishing touches" and the final in 1962 was painted when she was living at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.

Charles Heathcote

He was articled to the church architects Charles Hansom, of Clifton, Bristol.

Charles Underwood

Charles Underwood (1791 – 5 March 1883, Clifton, Bristol) was a builder in Cheltenham who moved to Bristol, where he became a neo-classical architect.

Christopher Gattelli

He grew up in Bristol, Pennsylvania, started dancing at the age of 11 and is a "Star Search" Grand champion.

Clinical governance

Clinical governance became important in health care after the Bristol heart scandal in 1995, during which anaesthetist Dr Stephen Bolsin exposed the high mortality rate for paediatric cardiac surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Crescent Porter Hale

1909 also saw publication of the first novel written about Bristol Bay, The Silver Horde by Rex Beach, and Cress Hale was assumed to be its inspiration.

David Rodgers

Rooks and Geoff Merrick formed the regular central defensive pairing for the 1971–72 season when Bristol City started strongly before finishing in 8th place.

Fir Hill Manor

In 1994, it was the subject of a BBC Bristol documentary, which tells the story of former Newquay policeman Derek Fowkes as he searches for absentee landlord, John Paget Figg-Hoblyn.

Flights

Joe Newcombe, Adam Cann and Joel Pearce come from Thornbury, a market town in South Gloucestershire approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Bristol.

George McCoy

George McCoy has appeared on television several times, including three episodes of The Big Questions on 20th January 2008 in Leeds, 24th May 2009 in Bristol and 1st April 2012 in Bury as well as the Welsh Panorama programme 'Week In - Week Out' which focussed on adult services in Cardiff.

Geraldine Creedon

Geraldine Creedon is a former representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 11th Plymouth district, consisting of precincts 1, 2, 4 and 5, of the town of Easton, in the county of Bristol; and precincts A and C of ward 1, precinct A of ward 2, and all precincts of ward 7, of the city of Brockton, in the county of Plymouth.

Heartbeat Productions

Simon Edwards was looking to release records by local punk band Vice Squad, however Cherry Red were not enthusiastic, so with Dave Bateman and Shane Baldwin from the band he set up Riot City Records (they had chosen the name, as Bristol had recently been in the news due to the 1980 St. Pauls riot).

Hobgoblin Music

There is an online catalogue, and the eight UK branches in Crawley, London, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Wadebridge, Birmingham and Milton Keynes also stock hundreds of second hand & one off items.

Hôtel Le Bristol Paris

On April 4, 1975, Josephine Baker celebrated 50 years in show business with a lavish party thrown at Le Bristol; guests included Sophia Loren, Mick Jagger and even Princess Grace of Monaco.

Isaac Wilkinson

Isaac became a foundryman in Bristol with involvement in the south Wales Dowlais Ironworks and Cyfarthfa Ironworks, and starting the Plymouth Ironworks with John Guest.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Joseph Phillimore

Phillimore was appointed king's advocate in the court of admiralty on 25 Oct. 1834, and chancellor of the diocese of Worcester and commissary of the deanery of St Paul's Cathedral in the same year; chancellor of the diocese of Bristol in 1842, and judge of the consistory court of Gloucester in 1846.

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

Other highlights were playing with John Critchinson, the big bands of Dave Stapleton and Andy Hague and performing a great new piece by Keith Tippett in the Colston Hall, Bristol.

Lakeville, Massachusetts

On the state level, Lakeville is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of two districts, the Ninth and Twelfth Bristol Districts.

Llywelyn ap Dafydd

A force of cavalry and infantry were deployed to escort Llywelyn and Owain out of Gwynedd via Acton Burnell in Shropshire to Bristol before the end of July 1283.

Luke Eves

Eves signed for Newcastle from Bristol towards the end of the 2009/10 season, with the signing being announced the day after Bristol lost to Exeter in the Championship final.

Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley

Hargreaves-Mawdsley was born in Bristol in 1921, where he attended Clifton College prior to matriculating at Oriel College, Oxford in 1940, where he read Classics and Modern History.

North Attleborough, Massachusetts

North Attleborough is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by Elizabeth "Betty" Poirier (R-North Attleborough), since 1999, as part of the Fourteenth Bristol district, which also includes sections of Attleboro and Mansfield.

Quantock Lodge

In the 1960s was purchased by David Peaster, the headmaster of Cotham School in Bristol, and made into a school.

Roger Wingate

Educated at Clifton College, Bristol and the University of London, he took over the Chairmanship of Chesterfield Properties PLC in the mid 1960s.

Ronald Bassett

After devoting himself solely to writing for three years, in 1969 he returned to the pharmaceutical corporate world going to work as a public relations officer for E. R. Squibb & Sons, a post he held until 1975 when he and his wife retired to Surrey.

Sack Friary, Bristol

Sack Friary, Bristol was a friary in Bristol, England.

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum

Traditionally both regiments recruited from Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas including Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, The Forest of Dean and from the city of Bristol.

Sport in Bristol

Bristol Handball Club are the sole club and are based at The City Academy Bristol, though they play their "home" games at the Princess Royal Sports Complex in Wellington, Somerset due to lack of facilities in Bristol.

St Philip's Marsh

Owned by Network Rail under depot code PM, it is leased to train operator First Great Western, and has been used since their introduction for the maintenance of InterCity 125 trains operating between London Paddington, Bristol and South Wales.

St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow

In the same year, money from Robert Thorne (a wealthy London merchant who, like Monoux, originated from Bristol and became Lord Mayor of the City of London) was used to completely rebuild the south aisle and to add a chapel on its eastern end.

Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London

In the Midlands, there was a Ukrainian Catholic priest celebrating Ukrainian-rite services for the Ukrainian faithful in Coventry, as well as in Rugby, Gloucester, Bristol, Birmingham and Cheltenham.

Walter Bartley Wilson

He was born in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, the son of Thomas Wilson, a brushmaker, and Sarah Hathaway, a teacher.

WCYB

WCYB-TV, NBC affiliate television station licensed to Bristol, Virginia, United States

William C. Wampler

Wampler was again an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1956 to the 85th Congress, and served as vice president and general manager of Wampler Brothers Furniture Company in Bristol, Virginia from 1957 to 1960 and the vice president and general manager of Wampler Carpet Company from 1961 to 1966.

William Denys

She died in 1593 and received the honour of burial at the Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol.

William II Canynges

He was a generous patron of the arts in Bristol, particularly concerning the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, "The crown of Bristol architecture".

WXCT

The 990 frequency signed on in 1969 as WNTY, a daytime-only station that targeted Southington and nearby Bristol.


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