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43 unusual facts about Weston


1927 in Wales

5 September - Kathleen Thomas becomes the first person to swim the Bristol Channel, swimming from her home town of Penarth to Weston-super-Mare in a time of 7 hours 20 minutes.

Alan Baer

In addition to performing and teaching, Mr. Baer is a design consultant with the Meinl-Weston instrument manufacturer.

Chamberlayne College for the Arts

Chamberlayne College for the Arts is the main secondary school in Weston, Southampton, providing education for around 900 boys and girls aged between 11 and 16.

Clarence Park

Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare, public park in Somerset town formerly used as first-class cricket venue

Commercial Cable Company

Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain.

Coney Weston

Coney Weston has a different meaning to other towns with the name Weston: it is not a true Weston (where the origin is from Old English west-tun "western farm, village or estate") but is a hybrid name, from Old Norse konungr "king" (cognate with Old English cyning "king") and Old English tun "farm".

Connecticut's 135th assembly district

Before 2002, the district contained the towns of Easton, Redding and parts of Newtown and Weston; boundary changes which took effect for the 2002 election removed Newtown and part of Redding from the district and added the remaining portion of Weston.

Cube Interactive

Cube Interactive owns a license, granted by Ofcom (the UK broadcasting regulator), to operate on the 8 MHz (542–550Mhz) interleaved spectrum in the Cardiff, Newport, parts of Bristol, and Weston-super-Mare.

David Voelker

Voelker was born in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in far northeastern Louisiana, to the attorney Frank Voelker, Jr., and the former Virginia Wilson (1921-2011), a native of Weston, West Virginia.

Dick Hanscom

His lessons are held at the Leo J. Martin Memorial Golf Course at 190 Park Road in Weston, Massachusetts.

Garth Hill

The Garth can be seen from nearly the whole of the city of Cardiff, and on a sunny, clear day as far as Weston-super-Mare across the Bristol Channel in the South West of England.

Greater Bristol Metro

Additional aims of the scheme are to support housing and employment along the rail corridors between Weston-super-Mare to Yate, and Cardiff to Bath.

Hastings Pier

These siblings also own The Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare, which caught fire in 2008 and destroyed the pavilion, but they rebuilt it at a cost of more than £50million.

Henry Folliott Scott-Stokes

Scott-Stokes contested Weston-super-Mare as a Liberal candidate in the 1934 by-election, and the 1935 general election.

Marissa Perry

Perry had been playing Tracy Turnblad in the Weston Playhouse production of Hairspray in Weston, Vermont when the writers of Hairspray, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, saw her performance and encouraged her to audition for the Broadway production.

Mayfield Park, Southampton

Much of the rest of the Weston Grove estate has been used to develop the post-war suburb of Weston.

Southampton City Council used part of the Weston Grove Estate to meet the demand for new housing after World War II, creating the Weston Housing Estate.

Napier Eland

A turboshaft Eland is on display at the The Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare.

North Somerset Council election, 2007

The election in Weston-super-Mare North Worle ward was delayed after the death of the Liberal Democrat leader of the council Alan Hockridge, meaning it was not held at the same as the other seats.

Norumbega

In the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford linked the name and legend of Norumbega to sites in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area, and built the Norumbega Tower at the confluence of Stony Brook and the Charles River in Weston, Massachusetts, where he believed Fort Norumbega was located (see the Horsford article for more on his claims).

Paul Martini

Paul Lloyd Martini (born on November 2, 1960 in Weston, Ontario) is a Canadian pair skater.

Peter Hadland Davis

Peter Hadland Davis (born 18 June 1918 in Weston-super-Mare; died 5 March 1992 in Edinburgh) was a British botanist.

Pier

The Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare is the only pier in the world that is linked to an island.

Pierpont Community and Technical College

Pierpont offers a variety of courses at more than 15 sites in North Central West Virginia, including the Braxton County Center in Flatwoods, West Virginia and the Lewis County Center in Weston, West Virginia.

Rail services in Greater Bristol

The Bristol to Exeter Line runs between Bristol and Exeter via the Nailsea, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater and Taunton.

River Alne

At one time the mill, which was operated by the Spencer family had 15 employees and supplied flour to a wide range of bakers including Weston-super-Mare.

Ruth Tester

Tester died at the age of 89 in a nursing home in Weston, Massachusetts on March 21, 1993.

Sarah Fuller

She was born in Weston, Massachusetts to Harvey and Celynda (Fiske) Fuller, and was educated at Allan English and Classical School, located in West Newton.

Sarah Uriarte Berry

Berry reprised her role as Franca in a production of The Light in the Piazza which ran from July 10–26, 2008 at the Weston Playhouse Theatre in Weston, Vermont where she starred alongside her husband Michael who played Roy.

Superman: True Brit

Written by John Cleese and Kim Howard Johnson, with art by John Byrne and Mark Farmer, it reimagines the origin of Superman, by considering how Clark Kent's upbringing would be different if his spaceship had crashed in Weston-super-Mare in England instead of the fictional town of Smallville in Kansas, America.

Susan Perkins

She is married with two children and lives with her family in Weston, Massachusetts.

Susan Powers

Her works have been exhibited in numerous museums, including the Bede Gallery, Jarrow, England, the Woodspring Museum, Weston-super-Mare, England, the Camden Arts Center, London, the Haworth Art Gallery, London, and at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Thor T/A

The Thor T/A is a Canadian ultralight aircraft that was designed by Thorsten B. Strenger (or possibly Gunter Webster) and produced by Thor-Air of Weston, Ontario.

Vikki Thomas

Vikki Thomas (born 8 February 1979) is an actress and television presenter also a former glamour model originally from Weston-super-Mare, England

Weston-on-Avon

Robert Fisher Tomes, English farmer and zoologist, was born here on 4 August 1823.

Weston-on-the-Green

The architect R. Phené Spiers restored the building in the 1870s, repairing the tower and adding the south porch and new seating.

Weston-super-Mare RFC

The Great Depression saw people from Wales arriving in the town and chose to play rugby for Weston and became one of the top clubs in the country at that time.

Weston-under-Redcastle

Weston-under-Redcastle was pronounced as Westune in the 1086 Doomsday Book, it was included in the Hundred of Hodnet within the county of Shropshire.

Weston is home to the 18th century Hawkstone Park Hotel which has 2 golf courses, 2 restaurants, bars and award winning Hawkstone Park Follies.

Weston, Illinois

Weston, Kane County, Illinois - a now-defunct town in Kane County that voted itself out of existence to provide a location for the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory.

Weston, McLean County, Illinois - a tiny village in unincorporated McLean County.

Weston, Missouri

William Buffalo Bill Cody was at one time a resident of Weston, and the town was a major "jumping off" point for the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush.

Wykeham, Weston, Lincolnshire

Wykeham is a deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Weston, and the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England.


Antoine Beaussant

It manufactures some 60,000 musical instruments every year under the Buffet Crampon, Besson, B&S, Antoine Courtois, Hans Hoyer, J. Keilwerth, Meinl Weston, Scherzer and W. Schreiber brands.

Constance Chapman

Born at Weston-super-Mare, her roles include Mrs. Brown in the 1982 Granada Television adaptation of A Kind of Loving and Anne in the Children's science fiction series, The Georgian House (1976).

Darlene Remembers Duke, Jonathan Plays Fats

The duo put their own unique interpretation on the music of Duke Ellington and Fats Waller with Stafford singing deliberately off key, while Weston plays an out of tune piano.

David John Weston

Weston scored his victories with either one of two observer aces—Walter Noble or Ernest Deighton—manning the guns in the rear seat.

Edith Weston Priory

Pevsner was dismissive about the Priory, saying that Brooke Priory was the only monastery in Rutland as "Edith Weston hardly counts as one".

Edward Payson Weston

During childhood Weston moved frequently, and by his own account, spent some time travelling with the popular Hutchinson Family Singers.

George Brewer

He is believed to have written a novel, Tom Weston, when in the navy, but his first appeal to the public of which there is evidence was a comedy, How to be Happy acted at the Haymarket in August 1794.

George Weston Limited

Meanwhile, a new advertising campaign featured Canadian actor William Shatner of Star Trek fame, who told television audiences to "Come on over to Loblaws" and "More than the price is right....but by gosh the price is right." In 1974, W. Galen Weston was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of George Weston Limited, and subsequently company President.

Gerard Weston

Seven days later, Father Weston drew up in his Morris Traveller car at the car-park of the Officers' Mess of the 16th Parachute Brigade in Aldershot.

Jack Weston

In the 1960–1961 television season, Weston appeared as Chick Adams, a reporter, on the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen starring Shirley Bonne and Elaine Stritch as two sisters who share a New York City apartment.

Julian Corbett

The son of a London architect and property developer, Charles Joseph Corbett, who owned among other properties Imber Court at Weston Green, Thames Ditton, where he made the family home, Julian Corbett was educated at Marlborough College (1869–73) and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1873–6), where he took a first class honours degree in law.

Lawrence Aloysius Burke

(Licentiate in Philosophy) from Weston College (1958), an M.A. in Theology from Boston College (1965), an S.T.L. (Licentiate in Sacred Theology) from Weston College (1965), and a M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University (1970).

North Somerset Council election, 2011

The Conservative administration of the previous 4 years was attacked over the cost moving the council offices to Castlewood in Clevedon and over the refurbishment of the town hall in Weston-super-Mare.

Paul Oginsky

He was a co-founder of the national youth charity Weston Spirit alongside Simon Weston, and is now director of his own personal development company.

Philip Bretherton

He then returned as "Robert Weston" in 1991, and again as "Ian Davenport" in 2004.

R. P. Weston

This collaboration was conducted in Weston's house in Twickenham until his death in 1936.

The actor and singer Roy Hudd created a stage show based on the songs of Robert Weston and Bert Lee (Just a Verse and a Chorus) and wrote the only authoritative article of any length about Weston and Lee in a now defunct periodical, Theatrephile (Volume 2 No. 6), in 1985.

Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland

Weston was elevated to the peerage on 13 April 1628, as Baron Weston, of Neyland.

Seymour Clark

Clark, a local club cricketer in Weston and a locomotive driver with the Great Western Railway, was called into the Somerset side for five matches when regular wicketkeeper Wally Luckes was ill.

Sharon Hollows

Garfield Weston Foundation's Outstanding Principals Awards Program conferences in Vancouver and Calgary.

Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet

(She Died in childberth aged 22 in 1675.He sent to Weston for her portrait so that the sculptor, Bushell,in Chester could make a monument to her.The monument is in Chirk churchyard,the portraite never came back to Weston and is still missing!)and secondly Charlotte Bridgeman, daughter of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet.

Sir William Shelley

He was hostile to the Protestant Reformation, and is said to have suffered from Thomas Cromwell's antipathy; but his name appears in important state trials of the period: in that of the Carthusian monks and John Fisher (1535), of Weston, Norris, Lord Rochford, and Anne Boleyn (May 1536), and Sir Geoffrey Pole, Sir Edward Neville, and Sir Nicholas Carew (1538–9).

The Big Give

Donations from the public were doubled by a number of sponsors, including Arts & Business, Reed Specialist Recruitment, Reed Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Candis Magazine and Ethiopiaid.

Torbay Express

From 2003, Past-Time Rail revived the Torbay Express as a passenger charter steam locomotive service, to run on certain summer Sundays and some Saturdays, from: Bristol Temple Meads via stops at Weston-Super-Mare and Taunton; to Paignton and onwards vis the Dartmouth Steam Railway to Kingswear.

Weston Coyney

Weston Coyney is identified in the Domesday Book as a manor called Westone or West Town in lands belonging to Robert de Stafford and held by Ernulf de Hesding.

Weston Priory

Weston Priory was founded by Abbot Leo A. Rudloff of Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem in 1953.

William Basil Weston

William Basil Weston's medal was placed on permanent loan at the Green Howards Museum at Richmond in 2001 by his nephew, Basil Weston of Ulverston.

On 3 March 1945 during the attack on Meiktila, Burma, Lieutenant Weston was commanding a platoon which, together with the rest of the company, had to clear an area of the town of the enemy.

William Drury

The couple settled on property in Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire, which had come to Margaret through her first marriage.

William Hinton

Bill Hinton (William Frederick Weston 'Bill' Hinton) (1895–1976), British professional footballer