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2 unusual facts about Sharples


Andrew Knowles and Sons

Robert Knowles who died 1780, started pits in Eagley Bank and Sharples, north of Bolton.

Sharples, Greater Manchester

Lower Sharples was separated from the upper portion by a detached portion of Little Bolton.


Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover

Lord Peckover married Eliza Sharples, daughter of Joseph Sharples, a banker, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in 1858.

Mel Sharples

Melvin Emory Sharples (commonly known as Mel) is a fictional character in the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the television sitcom series, Alice.

Robert Sharples

He married in 1977, with his widow Christina, going on to have a well-publicised affair with Green, after Sharples' death in 1987 in Camden, London, England.

Rolinda Sharples

Rolinda Sharples was born into a family of artists headed by James Sharples, her father, and Ellen Sharples, her mother.

Winston Sharples

Sharples married Daisy Shockley in 1931 and had a son, Winston Sharples Jr., who worked with his father as a music editor and eventually became a musical director himself on The Mighty Hercules.

Later Sharples cues were recycled into episodes of Seeger's Batfink.


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