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unusual facts about West Park, Wolverhampton



Albrighton

Albrighton, Bridgnorth, a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, north-west of Wolverhampton

All-seater stadium

For instance, the South Bank Stand behind the southern goal at Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, home of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., had a maximum of 32,000 standing attenders, while the rest of the stadium hosted a little bit less than that (total maximum attendance was around 59,000).

Bam's World Domination

This first show premiered Wednesday, October 13 at 11:30 PM, ET/PT and showcased Margera, Dunn and skateboarder Tim O’Connor doing the “The Tough Guy Challenge” in the Perton, Staffordshire, near Wolverhampton, England.

Barmouth

Barmouth is (geographically) one of the closest seaside resorts to the English West Midlands and a large proportion of its tourist visitors, as well as its permanent residents, are from Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Dudley and other parts of the Black Country, and Telford, Shropshire.

Bonaventure Giffard

He was the second son of Andrew Giffard of Chillington, in the parish of Brewood, Staffordshire, by Catherine, daughter of Sir Walter Leveson, was born at Wolverhampton in 1642.

Brinsford

Brinsford Parkway railway station, a prospective new parkway railway station to the north of Wolverhampton

Carillion

Carillion plc is a British multinational facilities management and construction services company headquartered in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.

Carl Robinson

He made his Wolverhampton Wanderers debut during the 1996–97 season.

Darlaston

Additional services which briefly enter Darlaston are the Banga Buses & Choice Travel 530, between the Rocket Pool and Wolverhampton via Bilston and the 575 between Ettingshall and Wolverhampton, the 680 between Moxley and Bilston via Lower Bradley & the 523 between Wednesbury and Stowlawn all operated by Choice Travel.

Dave Wagstaffe

Jack Kent Cooke, a cable television entrepreneur and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team who had bought the LA Wolves franchise for $250,000, asked Wagstaffe to move to the United States and join his potential business as potential face of American soccer, but after returning to Wolverhampton, Wagstaffe decided against pursuing the opportunity.

Edward Poynter

In 1866 Poynter married the famous beauty Agnes MacDonald, daughter of the Rev G B MacDonald of Wolverhampton, and they had three children.

Geoff Hampton

Sir Leslie Geoffrey Hampton (born 1952), best known as Sir Geoff Hampton, is a British head teacher who gained notability in March 1998 when he received a knighthood in recognition for his achievements as head teacher of Northicote School in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

George Africanus

Darcy Molineux raised George Molineux's father John (1685-1754) in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, before settling in Wolverhampton around 1700.

H. V. Burlingham

Wolverhampton Corporation took one identical body on a Guy Arab IV whilst another but with half-cab and exposed radiator went to Samuel Morgan of Armthorpe Yorkshire.

Henry Nicholas Paint

Nicholas Mander, Varnished leaves : a biography of the Mander family of Wolverhampton, 1750-1950. Dursley: Owlpen Press.

High Arcal School

The school's current head teacher is Mrs Jo Manson, who took the position on a temporary basis in August 2006 following the resignation of Mr Jeffrey Williams, who quit after being fined at Wolverhampton Crown Court following a conviction for kerb-crawling.

Hilton Hall

Hilton Hall is an 18th-century mansion house now in use as an Office and Business Centre at Hilton, near Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire.

James Shipton

Wealthy businessman James Shipton (19 August 1798—1 February 1865) was a successful Timber merchant and licensed carrier who served as Mayor of Wolverhampton from 1854 to 1855.

Following established coal and flour milling operations alongside Brindley's newly constructed Birmingham Canal at Albion Wharf, Wolverhampton, James and Maurice Shipton opened a carrier service in 1821, followed by a timber wharf in 1827.

Jeffrey Ennis

After leaving education he became a raw materials inspector with J. Lyons and Co. bakery in 1975 at Carlton, before becoming a teacher in 1976 initially at the Elston Hall Junior School in Fordhouses, Wolverhampton.

John Hayward

Sir Jack Hayward (born 1923), property developer, in Wolverhampton, England

Joseph Barney

Two of his large-scale paintings — altar pieces The Deposition from the Cross (1781) and The Apparition of Our Lord to St Thomas (1784) have been preserved in Wolverhampton, and can be seen today at St John's church and at St Peter & St Paul's Roman Catholic church.

Lisa Potts

Lisa Potts GM (married name Webb) is a former nursery teacher noted for saving her school children's lives from a machete attack by a man with severe paranoid schizophrenia on July 8, 1996 at the St Luke's Primary School in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.

Lola Almudevar

According to BBC News, Almudevar won an award for her work on Alexandra Road, a ten-part series that followed the lives of residents of a street in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, which she co-produced with fellow BBC journalist, Brady Haran.

Louise Kirkby Lunn

She was particularly active in the 1900–1901 Queen's Hall season with Wood, appearing with Blauvelt, Lloyd Chandos and Daniel Price, and the Wolverhampton Festival Choral Society, in Beethoven's last symphony on 16 March, and in Gilbert and Sullivan excerpts (with Lloyd Chandos and Florence Schmidt).

Lutley

The ownership resulted in the manor of Lutley being with Codsall and various other places part of the manor of the Deanery of Wolverhampton.

Mander Brothers

In the early industrial revolution, the Mander family entered the vanguard of the expansion of Wolverhampton, on the edge of the largest manufacturing conurbation in the British Isles.

Martin Israel

In 1951 he travelled to England to do postgraduate research, becoming first a doctor at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and then a pathology registrar at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton.

Meadows Frisky

Meadows Frisky is the name of a series of small British cars manufactured at the factory of Henry Meadows Ltd at Fallings Park in Wolverhampton between 1958 and 1961, during which time, production was under the control of a number of companies.

Molineux Stadium

The club was saved from folding in August 1986 when Wolverhampton Council bought the ground for £1.12 million, along with the surrounding land, while Gallagher Estates, in conjunction with the Asda Superstore chain, agreed to pay off the outstanding debt – subject to building and planning permission for a superstore being granted.

Paul Uppal

He holds a season ticket for Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, and is a trustee of the second largest Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) in Wolverhampton.

River Tame, West Midlands

However the SMURF project traces it back as far as Stow Heath, near Bilston, where it is marked by a marshy patch at the northern end of the City of Wolverhampton College Wellington Road campus; hence, SMURF uses the term "Wolverhampton arm" for this section of the Tame.

Robert Bird

Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet (1876–1960), British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton West 1922–1929 and 1931–1945

Ron Flowers

He ended his playing career at non-league Wellington Town (latterly known as Telford United) as player-manager before retiring to run a sports shop in Wolverhampton.

Sheriffhales

The 2007 Tour of Britain bike race passed through the village on the first of September as part of the Wolverhampton to Birmingham stage.

Shrewsbury to Chester Line

On 28 April 2008, Wrexham & Shropshire began providing services along the section of line between Wrexham General and Shrewsbury, continuing via Wolverhampton to London Marylebone.

Slabsides

Slabsides is the log cabin built by naturalist John Burroughs and his son on a nine-acre (3.6 ha) wooded and hilly tract in 1895 one mile (1.6 km) east of Riverby, his home in West Park, New York.

The City of Wolverhampton Brass Band

The City of Wolverhampton Brass Band was formed in 1972 and initially based at Wolverhampton Grammar School, in Wolverhampton, UK.

Tricksta

In 1997, Tricksta joined with Wolverhampton rapper Late and started sketching plans for their act Villains, their magazine Rago, and the Wolftown Recordings label, which in 1999 landed a distribution deal with Pinnacle Entertainment.

Wappenshall Junction

In 1825, the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal was authorised, to run from the Ellesmere and Chester Canal at Nantwich to Autherley Junction near Wolverhampton on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

West Park Hospital

West Park is a modern NHS adult mental health unit situated on the north-western outskirts of Darlington in the West Park development.

West Park, Leeds

The Moor Grange area was used for filming The Beiderbecke Affair, using the Butcher Hill playing fields and the Clayton Grange flats.

West Park, Stowe Township

West Park is a residential and commercial neighborhood located in Stowe Township, Pennsylvania, United States, and partially in the borough of McKees Rocks.

West Park, West Bridgford

The ground was constructed by cricket philanthropist Sir Julien Cahn.

The first recorded match on the ground was in 1928, when Sir J Cahn's XI played the touring West Indians in a non first-class match.

West Park, Wolverhampton

Its opening, by the Duke of Connaught, was received with hopeful enthusiasm, unfortunately not matched by the weather, which contributed to a £30,000 loss, equivalent to nearly £2M at today's value.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Selected paintings by the 18th-century artists from the Gallery collection include the 'Portrait of the Lee Family' by Joseph Highmore, 'David Garrick in 'The Provoked Wife' by Johann Zoffany, 'Portrait of Erasmus Darwin' (1792) by Joseph Wright of Derby, 'Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby' by Henry Fuseli, 'Arrival of Louis XVIII at Calais' by Wolverhampton-born Edward Bird.


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