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unusual facts about The Bailey


The Bailey

The remainder of the peninsula is centred on Durham Market Place.


Colleges within universities in the United Kingdom

There are 16 colleges in Durham; the Bailey colleges are located on the historic peninsula around North and South Bailey street and are usually thought of as being the more traditional - all require the wearing of gowns at either matriculation, JCR meetings or Formal meals, except the 'traditionally informal' St Cuthbert's Society.


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Bailey machine gun

Superficially, the Bailey Machine Gun resembled the Gatling gun, as it also had multiple barrels and was hand cranked.

Bedford Falls Productions

In honor of It's a Wonderful Life, the Bedford Falls Company was named after the fictional town, and an overhead view of a facsimile of the Bailey household appears in the production logo, which also features a man and a woman singing the last line of "Buffalo Gals" (a song featured in the movie), "..and dance by the light of the moon."

Dipson Theatres

In 1939 Nikitas Dipson also moved into the Buffalo, NY region acquiring three theaters Michael Shea operated but did not renewed the leases: the Century, a downtown first run theater, the Bailey, a neighborhood theater, and the Rivieria, a suburban theater and one that Shea declined an offer for the Ridge, another suburban theater.

John Nicholas Brown II

Brown belonged to many social clubs and hereditary organizations including the Pilgrims Society, the Society of the Cincinnati, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Sons of the American Revolution (joined in 1960 as national member number 85,691), the Newport Reading Room, the Newport Country Club, the Spouting Rock Beach Association, the Fishers Island Club and the highly exclusive Clambake Club.

Lake House

A 200lb chondrite meteorite sat on the doorstep of Lake House for at least 80 years, before being donated to the Natural History Museum when the Bailey family sold Lake House in 1991.

Moyes Tempest

The Moyes Tempest, also referred to as the Bailey/Moyes Tempest, is an Australian high-wing, strut-braced, single-seat, microlift glider that was designed by Bob Bailey of Florida, United States and produced by Moyes Microlights of Waverley, New South Wales, Australia.

Peter Borwein

He is known as a co-author of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe algorithm for computing π.

Reggae/Soca Music Awards

The Reggaesoca Music Awards were first presented in 1994 by its founder Winsome ‘Lady C’ Charlton at The Bailey Concert Hall in Davie, South Florida.

Roy Rogers Restaurants

The first location opened in 1968 in the Bailey's Crossroads section of Falls Church, Virginia, on the corner of Leesburg Pike and Carlin Springs Road (5603 Leesburg Pike), not far from the Hot Shoppes on Columbia Pike.

St John's College, Durham

It also contributes to university theatre, with the Bailey Theatre Company producing Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis in the Epiphany term of 2009 and Arthur Miller's The Crucible in the Michaelmas term of 2008, as well as the annual Summer Shakespeare.

Tickhill Castle

After a siege in 1102 Robert Bloet added a curtain wall to the rampart around the bailey; the first part of the castle to be built of stone.