The Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington, Alberta, Canada, has a large selection of stuffed ground squirrels of many varieties and colors.
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The Stevens family later built Cross House, in the parish of Little Torrington, a large Georgian mansion situated on top of the hill across the River Torridge valley from Great Torrington Castle Hill.
Connaught Hall was established in 1919 by HRH Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn — the third son of Queen Victoria — at 18 Torrington Square, London as a men-only private hall of residence; the Hall was intended as a memorial to the Duchess of Connaught who died in 1917.
Edwin R. Fellows (May 29, 1865 – May 21, 1945) was an American inventor and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who designed and built a new type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the mentoring of James Hartness, left the Jones & Lamson Machine Company to co-found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield, Vermont, which became one of the leading firms in the gear-cutting segment of the machine tool industry.
Fyler-Hotchkiss Estate, Torrington, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP in Connecticut
He was supervisor of the Excelsior Needle Company, a needle manufacturing firm which became the Torrington Company, and which was the largest employer in Torrington.
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The James Alldis House is a Queen Anne style house in Torrington, Connecticut which is significant for it being a fine, well-preserved example of Queen Anne architecture, and also locally for its association with the largest industry in Torrington, the needle manufacturing plant which became the Torrington Company.
Torrington worked for eight years on the production line of the Hillman Imp car there, before the plant's closure.
Lyons Garage, Torrington, Connecticut, a contributing building in the Downtown Torrington Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
In 1968 part of the medieval Bideford Bridge collapsed and the railway from Barnstaple to Torrington was re-opened to passenger traffic as a temporary measure for the conveyance of school pupils, etc.
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The former railway from Barnstaple to Torrington and beyond is now part of the Sustrans 'Tarka Trail' for cyclists and pedestrians.
Paul Seed currently lives in Torrington, Devon, and is married to fellow actor Elizabeth Cassidy.
Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan was connected to Prometa as one of her rehab efforts during 2007, when Star Magazine reported that she was being treated by Dr. Matthew Torrington, director of the Prometa Center in Santa Monica.
Hopton was defeated at Torrington on 16 February 1646 and surrendered to Thomas Fairfax.
Initially commanding two batteries - 383 from Torrington and 384 from South Molton - the third battery (506) was formed in the regiment at Bircotes on 5 November 1940.
Gail Borden's condensed milk business had started operation in the Burrville section of Torrington in the 1860s.
Loughton Town Council placed a Blue Plaque at 164 Torrington Drive to commemorate its famous former resident
Following Granada Television's screening of the Rochdale by-election earlier in the year, BBC Television chose Torrington for their second election broadcast (after the 1955 general election).
Timken approaches Ingersoll-Rand to purchase the industrial side of Torrington’s business but soon got interested in its entirety as it realized Torrington’s automotive business was stronger than originally thought.
The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, located in Torrington, Alberta, features stuffed gophers (Richardson's ground squirrels) posed to resemble townspeople.