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unusual facts about St Anne, Alderney



Adrian D'Souza

He has done his schooling from St Anne's High School, Orlem, Malad.

Alderney Society Museum

One recent example included the June 2009 through December 2009 loan of pieces from the Alderney Elizabethan Shipwreck, such as cannonballs, breastplate, helmet, and tobacco pipes, to the Guernsey Museums & Galleries in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.

Bailiwick

The term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands, which for administrative purposes are grouped into the two bailiwicks of Jersey (comprising the island of Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers and Écréhous) and Guernsey (comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou).

Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue

Pannetier, in order to escape the pursuing allied fleet, sought to make the hazardous passage through the Alderney Race; in this he was helped by finding in his crew a local man, Hervé Riel, to act as pilot when his navigators demurred.

BNS Karatoa

BNS Karatoa is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy, built as the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel, HMS Alderney (P278).

Braye Beach Hotel

Braye Beach Hotel is a 4-star hotel, considered to be the best in Alderney.

Daphne Phelps

Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.

Edward Hannes

Hannes died on 22 July 1710, in the parish of St Anne's, Westminster, and was buried beside his wife at Shillingford, Berkshire, where there was a monument to his memory.

Flamanville, Manche

During the summer a high-speed passenger ferry is operated from there to Alderney and Guernsey by Manche Iles Express.

Fort Clonque

Fort Clonque is a 19th-century coastal fortress in Alderney, in the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

Fort Tourgis

Fort Tourgis is an extensive fortification in Alderney to the north west of St Anne.

Fred Hando

She graduated from St Anne's College, Oxford, and later married George Smith, later Delacourt-Smith, in 1939.

History of Jerusalem during the Crusader period

The Church of St. Anne became a madrasa, and other churches were destroyed and their stones used to repair damage from the siege.

Ivan Foster

In 2002 he preached a sermon in which he condemned Nigel Dodds who accepted an invitation to attend an ecumenical service at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast in celebration of Elizabeth II's golden jubilee.

L-vocalization

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, falter, fold, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould/mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder (earlier sholder), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold (in the sense of "tract of land").

Marquess of Milford Haven

He was at the same time made Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Mignot Memorial Hospital

Residents of Guernsey, Alderney, Herm or Jethou paying Social Security contributions are covered by the Specialist Health Insurance Scheme and so may receive specialist care and treatment free of charge at the hospital.

Mignot Memorial Hospital is the principal hospital in Alderney, Channel Islands.

Rail transport in the United Kingdom

Rail transport in Alderney: discusses the railway in Alderney, in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the only working railway in the Channel Islands.

Ruma Pal

She read for her B.C.L degree at St Anne's College, Oxford and started practice in 1968 in Civil, Revenue, Labour and Constitutional matters in the Calcutta High Court.

Seagulls Over Sorrento

Although set on a Scottish island, the movie was filmed on Jersey and at Fort Clonque on Alderney in the Channel Islands, with interiors filmed at MGM's British studios at Boreham Wood, Elstree.

Sir Edward Dering, 5th Baronet

Dering remarried some six months later, 11 September 1735, at St Anne's Church, Soho, to Mary, widow of Henry Mompesson, and daughter and coheiress of Charles Fotherby of Barham Court, Kent, by Mary daughter of George Elcocke.

Sir William Ashburnham, 5th Baronet

Baptised at St Anne's Church, Soho on 29 March 1739, he was the eldest surviving son of the Rt Revd Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, Bishop of Chichester and his wife Margaret Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham.

St Anne's Church, Jerusalem

During the Roman Period a pagan shrine to either the Egyptian god Serapis or the Greek god Asclepius, both gods of healing, stood on the grounds next to the two Pools of Bethesda.

In 1856, in gratitude for French support during the Crimean War, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I presented it to Napoleon III.

St Anne's Church, Woodplumpton

The churchyard at St Anne's is the supposed burial place of a 17th-century alleged witch named Meg Shelton.

St Anne's Limehouse

The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Westferry.

Across the road is the former Sailors' Mission, where Situationist International held its conference in 1960.

With the redevelopment of the East London Docklands in the late 20th Century, over 100,000 people work in the Canary Wharf area, and a large part of this centre of business and finance lies within the parish of St Anne's Church.

The Wildlife Trusts

The Wildlife Trusts is an organisation made up of 47 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom plus the Isle of Man and Alderney.


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