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12 unusual facts about Sunbury


Alice River, Queensland

The estate is also known as Rupertswood, the estate was named by the developer who was Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet of Rupertswood, after his ancestral home "Rupertswood" at Sunbury, Victoria, Australia.

Costen Jordan Harrell

Costen was born in 12 February 1885 on his grandfather's plantation, about five miles north of Sunbury, Gates County, North Carolina.

Great Coasters International

(GCI or GCII) is a Sunbury, Pennsylvania-based roller coaster manufacturer which has created several award-winning rides since its formation in 1994.

Hugh Victor McKay

McKay died at Rupertswood, a mansion in Sunbury, Victoria (notable as the birthplace of the Ashes) on 21 May 1926 and was survived by his wife, a daughter and two sons.

Ivor D. Fenton

He retired in January 1968, and lived in Mahonoy City until his death in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

Lou Pucillo

After graduating from N.C. State, Pucillo played for the Wichita Vickers in National Industrial League and later played for Sunbury in the Eastern Professional League.

Rosa May Billinghurst

Although having contracted polio as a child she lived in the garden house of her property "Minikoi", Sunbury, Surrey (but then in Middlesex), with her adopted child, "Beth".

Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London

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St Mary's Parish Church, Hampton

St Mary's Parish Church is to be found at the junction of two major roads A308 and A311, leading to Twickenham, Kingston upon Thames and Sunbury-on-Thames.

Sunbury, Pennsylvania

Tim Boetsch is a UFC fighter with training in American mixed martial arts.

SW postcode area

The area originally extended as far west as Sunbury-on-Thames, however, changes to the size and make up of the London postal district since its inception led to many areas being transferred to the newly created outer London postcode districts of Kingston-upon-Thames and Twickenham.

Vickery Turner

Vickery Turner (3 April 1945 in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey – 4 April 2006) was a British actress, playwright, author and stage director.


3NRG

The station was established to provide local news, information and community access to the township of Sunbury, in outer north west metropolitan Melbourne, as well as to the surrounding localities of Diggers Rest, The Gap, Couangult and Toolern Vale.

Albion railway station, Melbourne

The Melbourne and Murray River Railway (now the Bendigo line) opened in 1859 running from Footscray and terminating in Sunbury; by the early 1860s the line had been extended all the way to the goldfields of Bendigo.

Arthur Grimshaw

He was appointed Assistant Chaplain at Geelong Grammar School from 1959 to 1961, vicar of Romsey and Sunbury with Lancefield from 1961 to 1964 and Precentor at St George's Cathedral, Perth from 1964 to 1968.

Footscray railway station

As part of the Regional Rail Link, an additional two platforms have been built to the north of the existing platforms, that will separate Metro Trains Sunbury services from V/Line services to Ballarat and Bendigo.

George Cornwell

Cornwell had previously been involved as contractor in many other major construction works including the Melbourne Grammar School, the Model School, Coppin’s Haymarket Theatre, the Sunbury railway goods shed and other Melbourne and Suburban Railway works.

Gladstone Parish, New Brunswick

Sunbury Parish set off from Blissville Parish in 1874 and named for the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), prime minister of England.

Interstate League

This circuit, which began as Class C and was upgraded to Class B in 1940, typically had teams in Allentown, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Sunbury, all in Pennsylvania; Hagerstown, Maryland; Trenton, New Jersey; and Wilmington, Delaware.

Muncy Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Homes and fields were abandoned, with livestock driven along and a few possessions floated on rafts on the river east to Muncy, then further south to Sunbury.

Ohio State Route 61

Its southern terminus is at the U.S. Route 36/State Route 3 concurrency in Sunbury, and its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 6 east of Huron, at the southernmost point of Lake Erie (which is subsequently the southernmost northern border of the United States).

Pennsylvania Route 308

PA 308 begins at an intersection with PA 8 near the Clearview Mall in Center Township, Butler County, heading north on two-lane undivided West Sunbury Road.

Shamokin Valley Railroad

The rail line runs east from Sunbury, then turns south through Paxinos and Weigh Scales to Shamokin, where it turns east again, always along or near Shamokin Creek and roughly following the route of Pennsylvania Route 61.

Sunbury United Rugby League

The club was originally formed by Ted & Maureen Riley after they viewed a rugby league international game between Australia and New Zealand at Olympic Park in 1991 which left them wondering if rugby league could take off in the Victorian township of Sunbury.

The Ashes urn

It was presented to Ivo Bligh, the captain of the England cricket team, after a friendly match hosted at Rupertswood mansion in Sunbury, during the 1882–83 tour in Australia, as a personal gift, and after his death was presented to the Marylebone Cricket Club, which has it on display at Lord's cricket ground.