The Mansfield signal is strong enough to be heard as far north as Scunthorpe, far outside Nottinghamshire.
The family was apparently well to do; they resided in a manor at Bromby Wood near Scunthorpe.
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He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the Scunthorpe Star, and was, briefly, the equestrian correspondent of the Yorkshire Post.
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David Ernest Plowright, CBE (11 December 1930, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire – 24 August 2006, Prestbury, Cheshire) was an English television executive and producer.
Paul Bryan, the MP for Howden moved an amendment to the Bill that would have created a county of East Yorkshire, covering the rural area of northern Humberside along with Selby and York (and also Flaxton Rural District), leaving a Humberside including Haltemprice, Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole, whilst Cleethorpes and Grimsby Rural District would have been kept in Lincolnshire.
He attended the John Leggott College in Scunthorpe between 1998 and 2000, studying Leisure and Tourism.
Part of the line still exists at the Scunthorpe end and is used to access a landfill site near Roxby which receives trainloads of household rubbish from various locations in the Greater Manchester area.
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The line had its own station in Scunthorpe at Dawes Lane some 1/2 mile from Frodingham on the Great Central Railway's Manchester to Cleethorpes route (now the South TransPennine).
From 1971-4 he was one of the founder broadcasters on BBC Radio Humberside with his popular programme of music, chat and current affairs titled Scunsbygookington, reflecting the key towns in the Humberside region of Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Goole, Kingston-upon-Hull and Bridlington.
In 1970, after changing hands several times, Kirmington was selected as the best location for a regional airport serving the Hull, Grimsby and Scunthorpe localities and has become Humberside International Airport.
The company was registered in 1918 and the following year saw a joining together of steel makers Samuel Fox and Company of Stocksbridge; Steel, Peech and Tozer of Templeborough and Ickles in Rotherham; the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company of Scunthorpe; and the coal mining and by-products interests of Rother Vale Collieries at Orgreave, Treeton and Thurcroft.
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Nowadays the steel interests at Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Stocksbridge are part of Tata Steel and all the mining interests have been closed, the last, at Treeton, in the 1990s.