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7 unusual facts about Warrington


Baron Daresbury

The Baronetcy, of Walton Hall in the County of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1876 for his father Gilbert Greenall, who was head of the family brewing business (later Greenall's and now the De Vere Group) and also represented Warrington in the House of Commons as a Conservative.

Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway

The line, which was the first long-distance railway in the world, ran from Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham to Dallam in Warrington, Cheshire, where it made an end-on junction with the Warrington and Newton Railway, a branch of the L&M.

HM Prison Risley

HM Prison Risley is a Category C men's prison, located in the Risley area of Warrington, Cheshire, England.

JANET

The core point of presence (Backbone) sites in SuperJanet4 were Edinburgh, Glasgow, Warrington, Reading, Bristol, Portsmouth, London and Leeds.

Jonathan Akinyemi

Jonathan Akinyemi (born November 22, 1988 in Warrington, England) is a Nigerian slalom canoer.

Keith Lampard

Born in Warrington, Cheshire, England, to British parents, Lampard and his family emigrated to Oregon when he was three years old.

Pennington, Greater Manchester

A station, formerly called Bradshaw Leach Station and later renamed Pennington Station, was built on the Bolton, Leigh and Kenyon branch of the London and North Western Railway at the junction with the Tyldesley Loopline of the same railway.


2005 Dally M Awards

::::The broadcast then crossed live to Andrew Johns who was at the Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington, England, to receive the award.

Al Holbert

The son of racecar driver Bob Holbert, who also ran a Volkswagen-Porsche dealership in Warrington, PA, near Philadelphia, Holbert worked for Roger Penske while studying at Lehigh University.

Ashford Police Training Centre

Ashford PTC and the other remaining regional training centres, Aykley Heads in Durham, Bruche in Warrington, Cwmbran in Wales, Ryton in Ryton-on-Dunsmore and Shotley in Ipswich were closed.

Aussie Gold

Aussie Gold is a television programme on Foxtel’s the Comedy Channel, created and executive produced by Darren Chau, produced by Anthony Warrington and hosted by Australian comedian Frank Woodley.

Brian Nordgren

Nordgren debuted for Wigan against Warrington on 3 April 1946 and went onto play in nine matches that season.

Burton Closes

It was much extended by T D Barry and E W Pugin in 1856 for Allcard's son William, a railway engineer, best known for his 1830 work on the Sankey Viaduct, Warrington, Cheshire, where he was mayor in 1848 and 1851.

Cheshire Constabulary

Cheshire Constabulary is responsible for policing the annual Creamfields dance and music festival that takes place over the August bank holiday weekend every year at Daresbury in Halton, close to Runcorn and Warrington.

Colin Forsyth

Trophy final at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington, and in the 6-0 victory over Widnes in the 1979–80 John Player Trophy final at Station Road, Swinton.

Dally Messenger

Messenger also rejected an offer to play with English club, Warrington, during the Australian off-season that year.

Elizabeth Warrington

In a test administered by Warrington and Tim Shallice from University College London, the short term memory of a patient who suffered head trauma following a motorcycle accident was tested.

Elizabeth Whitlock

Elizabeth Whitlock (2 April 1761 Warrington, Lancashire – 27 February 1836 Addlestone) was a British actress, a member of the Kemble family of actors.

Firefighting

Following work with Warrington Fire Research Consultants (FRDG 6/94) his terminology and concepts were adopted officially by the UK fire services, and are now referred to throughout revised Home Office training manuals (1996–97).

George Gaukrodger

George Warrington Gaukrodger (11 September 1877, Kirkburton, Yorkshire – 4 January 1938, Low Moor, Bradford, Yorkshire) was a cricketer who played more than 100 times in first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1900 and 1910; he also played once for the Players against the touring Australians in 1902.

Gibson Byrd

At the UW Madison, Byrd was a contemporary of other prominent artists including Aaron Bohrod, Warrington Colescott, Raymond Gloeckler, Walter Hamady Harvey Littleton, Alfred Sessler and John Wilde.

Hanmer Warrington

At a time when British influence on the Barbary Coast was overshadowed by that of France, Hanmer Warrington nevertheless succeeded in developing a close relationship with the local ruler, known as the bashaw, Yusuf Karamanli.

Helen Jones

Helen Jones lives in Warrington North with her family, in the village of Culcheth, and employs her husband her as parliamentary assistant.

Henry Fa'afili

Fa'afili signed for Warrington Wolves in 2004 and whilst at Warrington he scored many tries from high cross field kicks from Lee Briers.

History of Freemasonry

While lodge records show a gradual development of mixed lodges in Scotland, it is evident that the lodge which initiated Elias Ashmole at Warrington on 16 October 1646 was mainly or entirely composed of speculative or accepted masons.

James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby

Finally, after successfully beating off Sir William Brereton's attack on Warrington, he was defeated at Whalley and withdrew to York, Warrington in consequence surrendering to the enemy's forces.

John Warrington Rogers

Warrington was the eldest son of the John Warrington Rogers, of London, entered as a student to the Middle Temple in June 1848, and was called to the bar in November 1846.

Joseph Crosfield

Joseph Crosfield (5 October 1792 – 16 February 1844) was a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business in Warrington, which was in the historic county of Lancashire and is now in the ceremonial county of Cheshire.

Kenyon

Kenyon is located west of Manchester and is within the Borough of Warrington, until recently in Cheshire.

Laura Alemán

HUM PRISONER where also participated Otilio Warrington "Biscocho", Miguel Ramos, among others.

Liam Horrigan

Liam Horrigan is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s, playing representative level for Ireland, and at club level for Woolston Rovers of Warrington.

Listed buildings in Brereton, Cheshire

It is in cast iron and consists of a cylindrical post with a curved plate inscribed with the distances in miles to Church Lawton, Newcastle, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, Warrington, and Liverpool.

Margaret G. Kibben

A native of Warrington, Pennsylvania, Rear Admiral Kibben entered active duty in the U.S. Navy in 1986 following studies for a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.

New Presque Isle Light

The tender Warrington brought the working party and materials to the harbor in the summer of 1870.

Orford Hall, Warrington

Orford Hall, now demolished, was a 17th-century country house built in an estate which is now a public park (Orford Park) in Orford, Warrington, England.

Philip Strong

Sir Philip Nigel Warrington Strong KBE CMG CStJ (1899–6 July 1983) served as the fifth Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane from 1962 to 1970, also serving as primate of the Church of England in Australia (now called the Anglican Church of Australia) from 1966.

Quekett

William Quekett (1802–1888), English rector of Warrington, Lancashire, brother of Edwin John and John Thomas Quekett

Rixton-with-Glazebrook

The village lies around 4 miles east of Warrington town centre and is bounded by Cadishead to the east and Culcheth to the north.

Runcorn Railway Bridge

In 1861 Parliamentary approval for a bridge was obtained by the LNWR as part of building a line from Aston, to the southeast of Runcorn where it joined the line from Crewe to Warrington at Weaver Junction, to the west of Widnes, where it joined the line from Warrington to Garston at Ditton Junction.

St Elphin's School

It moved to Darley Dale, a rural area near Matlock, Derbyshire, in 1904, as the Warrington area had changed from open countryside and become highly industrialised.

Starworld

The company and brand's manufacturing centre is in Alexandria, Egypt, and the brand has offices in Warrington (England), Hoofddorp (Holland) and Nicosia (Cyprus).

Station Road, Swinton

In its heyday it boasted a capacity of 60,000, although with a record attendance of 44,621 for Warrington v Wigan in the 1951 Challenge Cup semi-final this was never really tested.

Stockton Heath

In 1643, parliamentarian forces under the command of Sir William Brereton advanced from Northwich to launch an attack on Warrington, the Lancashire headquarters of the royalist James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.

Tevita Leo-Latu

On 7 August 2007 Tevita Leo-Latu received a six-match ban for making a racist remark toward Warrington's Kevin Penny on 17 June earlier that year.

Vale Special

The Vale Motor Company was set up in 1931 by Pownoll Pellew (later 9th Viscount Exmouth) as a 'gentleman's hobby' in a rented workshop behind the Warrington pub in Maida Vale.

Warrington College of Business Administration

William R. Hough of St. Petersburg, Florida, founder of the investment firm bearing his name and an alumnus of the first MBA class of Warrington College in 1948, donated $30 million to Warrington College in 2007.

Warrington Cycle Campaign

The first facility the site featured in March 2001 was in Warrington, but the feature quickly went national, with the April 2001 facility showing a cycle lane in Camden, then in October 2007 it went international and featured a cycle lane in France.

Warrington Male Voice Choir

Following the IRA bomb attacks on Warrington town centre in 1993, the choir became involved in promoting peace and an end to violence in Northern Ireland.

William Warrington

In his youth, Warrington first trained with his father as a painter of armorial shields.

Woolston, Cheshire

Warrington Borough Transport (3, 4, 4A) and Warrington Coachways (104) provide local bus services to Warrington Town Centre, whilst First Greater Manchester operate an inter-urban service (100) to Manchester via Irlam and the Trafford Centre.


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