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Park Road

Park Road, Loughborough, a cricket Ground in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England


4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

Four of these troops (in Kingston, Napanee, Loughborough and Picton) were united under a regimental headquarters in 1875, becoming the 4th Provisional Regiment of Cavalry.

9th World Scout Jamboree

Daily rail excursion charter trains were laid on to transport the international Scouts on sight-seeing trips to various British cities, including Nottingham, Leicester, Loughborough, London and Cardiff.

Anthony Bamford

Married to Carole, Lady Bamford OBE, she was made an honorary Doctor of Technology by Loughborough University in 2002.

Baylis House

The Osborne family acquired the house in 1733, and tenants from this time included the fourth Earl of Chesterfield, and Alexander Wedderburn, Baron Loughborough.

Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company

The self-funded prototype Lion main line locomotive was a particular disappointment, powered by a Sulzer 2,750 hp diesel engine, it was pitted against another self-funded prototype, Falcon, built by Brush at Loughborough which had twin 1,400 hp Maybach engines; after trials British Railways preferred the BRCW approach, but ordered them to be built by the Brush company.

Boobam

Loughborough had scientific instruments borrowed from the Navy Yard, and using an oscilloscope and audio oscillator he and Wheat were able to work on a new technical level that had not been possible before.

Brush Electrical Machines

Brush Electrical Machines is a manufacturer of large generators for gas turbine and steam turbine drive applications, based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

As the business grew in Lambeth due to the demand for new electrical apparatus, larger premises were required and the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation moved 100 miles north to the Falcon Works at Loughborough in 1889.

Cambrian Heritage Railways

Most of the British Rail Mark 1 variety had already seen service in preservation prior to being brought on site, as these vehicles were originally based at the Great Central Railway in Loughborough.

Centre for Research in Social Policy

The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) is a self-funding autonomous research centre based within the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands, England.

Cogenhoe

The bells were further turned and re-hung in 2003 by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, who operate the largest bell foundry in the world.

Fairfield Preparatory School

The catchment area for Fairfield is large due to the school’s popularity with children travelling from Loughborough and the surrounding villages and from as far as Leicester, Nottingham, Rutland and Derby.

FKI

FKI is a British engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Loughborough, Leicestershire.

Fraser Watts

Formerly a seam bowler, he once removed Dan Marsh twice during a six wicket haul against Leicestershire CCC whilst playing for Loughborough University; however he has since failed to get a bowl for any of his club sides in Scotland.

G. W. Briggs

On top of this he also wrote the college hymn for Loughborough College of Technology, which would later become Loughborough University.

George Davys

The son of John Davys of Rempstone, Nottinghamshire, by Sophia, daughter of the Rev. B. Wigley of Sawley, Derbyshire, was born at Loughborough, Leicestershire, 1 October 1780.

Haslegrave Ground

The first recorded match on the ground was in 1988, when Loughborough Students played the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Herbert Haslegrave

Herbert Leslie Haslegrave (1902–1999) was a British engineering academic who developed Loughborough Technical College into Loughborough University of Technology, and was its first Vice-Chancellor.

Ian Sturmer

With the bat, Sturmer scored 2 not out in Loughborough's first-innings, while in their second he was dismissed for 5 runs by Adam Riley.

In Bed With Chris Needham

In Bed With Chris Needham is a 1992 Teenage Video Diary from the BBC about a Loughborough teen and thrash metal fan, Chris Needham, and his friends as they establish their own band and build up to their first proper 'gig'.

James Dasaolu

Born in south London to Nigerian parents, Dasaolu did not take up sprinting seriously until he was 18 when he began a leisure management degree at Loughborough.

John Cleveland

The son of an usher in a charity school, Cleveland was born in Loughborough, and educated at Hinckley Grammar School.

Leon McSweeney

He soon signed a contract with Scarborough under the management of Russell Slade, where he made four appearances, before accepting a place at Loughborough University.

Litchurch

In 1757 Thomas Borrow, Derby's Town Clerk, married Anne Ault of Loughborough and came into the use of £4,000 and lands and property in Litchurch.

Loughborough Dynamo F.C.

Loughborough Dynamo was formed in 1955 by a group of pupils from Loughborough Grammar School who no longer wished to play rugby.

Loughborough railway station

It became known as "Loughborough Midland" when Loughborough had three stations; Loughborough Derby Road (opened 1883 on the Charnwood Forest Railway, owned by London and North Western Railway from 1923 and closed to passengers in 1931) and Loughborough Central (Great Central Railway now used by the Great Central Railway (preserved)).

Melanie Marshall

Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, brought up in Wrangle and currently residing in Loughborough with her two dogs, Missy and Jetson, she is 1.7 m (5′ 7″), 62 kg.

Melton Mowbray Navigation

The first proposals to link Melton Mowbray to the canal network were made in 1780, following on from the success achieved by the Loughborough Navigation and the Erewash Canal.

National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers

The union was founded in 1945, with the merger of the Hinckley, Ilkeston, Leicester, Loughborough and Nottingham Hosiery Unions.

Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited

In 1880 the company made some trials with a steam tram from Messrs Hughes and Co of Loughborough.

Nottingham Corporation Tramways

Powers were also sought at this time for the operation of motorbuses, and, in November, the Brush Traction Electric Engineering Company of Loughborough was approached to see if it were willing to operate two of its motorbuses in Nottingham for a trial period of three months.

The second batch, numbered 146 to 155, had similar bodies built by the Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited of Loughborough, mounted on Brush-built P.22 trucks and with identical equipment to the U.E.C. cars, except for 146, which had a B.T.H electromagnetic brake instead of the air slipper type.

Park Road

Park Road Post, a motion picture post production facility in Miramar, New Zealand

Park Road Shopping Center, an open area strip mall located in Charlotte, North Carolina

Quidem

Stations for Banbury, Stratford, Warwick, Rugby and Coventry transmit from Honiley, Warwickshire, whilst services for Hinckley, Loughborough and Tamworth emanate from Coalville, Leicestershire.

Raucous Records

The label was formed in 1987 by Howard Raucous, initially to release a vinyl EP by his psychobilly band The Go-Katz, Initially based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, relocating in the early 1990s to Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Regional Seat of Government

Skendleby, located in a very remote area of rural Lincolnshire, a former ROTOR bunker, and Loughborough, a former hardened cold store.

Rob Childs

That same year, he began his teaching career at a high school in Loughborough, Leicestershire.

Rosminians

Invited to the Midland district, the fathers taught for a while at Old Oscott, and in 1841 opened the mission of Loughborough.

Soar Valley

Soar Valley embraces the large villages of Quorn, Mountsorrel, Barrow upon Soar, Birstall, Rothley and Sileby and a number of smaller communities all on or near the River Soar as it flows from Leicester to Loughborough in Leicestershire.

Swithland Sidings

Led by the vision of GCR benefactor David Clarke, the nephew of a former signalman on the GW&GC Joint Line, double track was relaid from Swithland to Rothley, and then from Swithland to Quorn, eventually reaching Loughborough in 2000.

The Wave Pictures

The band has its origins in a group called Blind Summit, which David and Franic formed with Hugh Noble in Wymeswold, near Loughborough in Leicestershire, in 1998.

Thomas and Ann Borrow

In 1757 he married Anne Ault of Loughborough and came into the use of £4,000 and lands and property in Litchurch and the parish of St Peters.

Thomas Cook

With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of 540 temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street station to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away.

Thorpe Acre

Following the Second World War, Loughborough needed more housing and part of Thorpe Acre was developed, largely for employees of Brush Engineering Works, during the 1950s.

University Radio Essex

It was one of the original University radio stations in the United Kingdom and with the other pioneering campus radio stations at York, Brunel, Loughborough, Sussex, Surrey the door was opened in the UK for campus radio.

Welford Road Stadium

Welford Road has also played host to American Football, with a charity match in aid of Matt Hampson taking place on 28 May 2007 between the Loughborough University Aces and reunited 90s team Leicester Panthers.

Wesley Coaches

One of these was a thirty by eight feet example built by Yeates of Loughborough, which achieved a transport milestone by being the first coach with no partition between the driver and his passengers, which nowadays is normal practice.


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