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unusual facts about St John Fisher Catholic High School, Dewsbury



1972–73 Northern Rugby Football League season

A second try from Mike Stephenson on 44 minutes extended Dewsbury's lead and though Leeds hit back with tries by Graham Eccles, Phil Cookson and Les Dyl, it was not to be with Nigel Stephenson converting his own try to complete a resounding 22-13 success.

Dewsbury had suffered a county cup record defeat 36-9 at the hands of Leeds in the Yorkshire Cup final earlier in the season.

Alex Arthur

After winning 11 fights in a row and picking up a couple of fringe titles on the way, Arthur managed to get a crack at the vacant British Super Featherweight title when he challenged Dewsbury's Steve Conway at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow on 19 October 2002.

Bartholomew Binns

Before becoming hangman, Binns was employed as foreman platelayer at Dewsbury by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, but after he got the post he no longer worked anywhere.

Bewal

In recent elections held in United Kingdom Sayeeda Warsi ak Baroness Warsi a British lawyer from Dewsbury Yorkshire and member of Conservative Party, became a cabinet minister who is also from Bewal.

Cleckheaton Central railway station

In 1972 a Dewsbury man appeared at Wakefield Crown Court; in the words of the prosecution counsel "what the case really comes to is that this man last August in effect stole Cleckheaton station".

Daisy Pulls It Off

Dewsbury Arts Group's 1989 production of the play was the scene of Victoria O'Keefe's last-ever stage role (as Sybyl Burlington), before her untimely death at 21 in an automobile accident in 1990.

Educating Yorkshire

In January 2012 Jonny Mitchell, the headmaster of Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury accepted an offer to be a part of a new series based in his school.

It follows the everyday lives of the staff and students of Thornhill Community Academy, a secondary school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

First West Yorkshire

It was designed to provide a direct bus to train link for passengers travelling from the Holme Valley on the bus to Huddersfield railway station to connect with trains to Leeds, Dewsbury and Manchester on Transpennine Express services.

Gary Sykes

Educated at Birkdale High School he is based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and is a former British super featherweight champion.

Huddersfield Line

Owing to a large number of easily accessed and nationally acclaimed pubs along the route (particularly on the station platforms themselves at Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Stalybridge), the route has also acquired the informal title of Rail Ale Trail and featured on the BBC's Oz and James Drink to Britain.

Markazi Masjid

Tablighi Jamaat and the Dewsbury Markaz has been accused of promoting extremist Islamism and having links with Islamic terrorism in Britain; Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the 7 July 2005 London bombers, are reported to have attended prayers at the mosque.

Muslims Against Crusades

The group suggested the towns of Bradford, Dewsbury, and Tower Hamlets in the East End of London as the possible first test beds for these entities.

Peaceville Records

The label was founded by Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw (of the bands Instigators and Civilised Society) in Dewsbury, England in 1987, who was also a one-time drummer of Sore Throat.

Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi

Baroness Warsi was the second of five daughters born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1971, to Pakistani immigrants from Bewal, Gujar Khan.

St John Fisher Catholic High School, Dewsbury

Victoria O'Keefe (1969-1990) — stage and film actor best known for playing nuclear war survivor Jane Beckett in made-for-TV movie "Threads" (1984).

Thomas Edmund Harvey

Harvey stood down from Parliament at the 1918 general election but tried to re-enter the House of Commons in 1922 having in 1921 been selected as Liberal candidate for Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Thomas Harvey

Thomas Edmund Harvey, British MP for Leeds West, 1910–1918, Dewsbury, 1923–1924, and Combined English Universities, 1937–1945

Thornhill Grammar School

Thornhill Grammar School was a school between Thornhill, West Yorkshire and Dewsbury.

Thornhill Lees

The district lies to the south of Dewsbury town centre, between Savile Town and Thornhill.

Thornhill Lees is a district of Dewsbury, which is a town within the borough of Kirklees in the county of West Yorkshire, England.


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