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2 unusual facts about The Willows


The Willows

The Willows, Salford, home of Salford City Reds & Swinton Lions Rugby League clubs, in Salford, England

The Willows, Salford

In 2013, a proposal to redevelop the site for housing was put forward by City West Housing Trust.



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Buffett Foundation

Currently, the Foundation provides grants to a large range of US and a few international organisations, including the Willows Foundation in Turkey (€2.3 million), the World Food Programme in Italy (€800,000), Marie Stopes International in the UK (€571,000); and Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida in Mexico (€196,000).

Cry of Silence

The early scenes in this episode - featuring the stranded couple menaced by sinister tumbleweeds - bear a strong resemblance to Algernon Blackwood's seminal horror story "The Willows".

Jacqueline Kelly

Kelly has also written a sequel to The Wind in the Willows called Return to the Willows, published in October 2012.

Lorenzo Lyons

Samoan writer John Kneubuhl wrote a play based on his life titled "The Harp in the Willows" in 1946.

Newton, Northamptonshire

Newton, sometimes called Newton in the Willows, is a small village in the Ise valley, Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Tarímbaro

In pre-Hispanic times the region of present day Tarímbaro was inhabited by the semi-nomadic Chichimeca (who knew the area "place of the willows") and the P'urhépecha people of Central Mexico.