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.
In addition to performing and teaching, Mr. Baer is a design consultant with the Meinl-Weston instrument manufacturer.
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, Weston-super-Mare, public park in Somerset town formerly used as first-class cricket venue
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 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".
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 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.
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.
His lessons are held at the Leo J. Martin Memorial Golf Course at 190 Park Road in Weston, Massachusetts.
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.
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.
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.
Scott-Stokes contested Weston-super-Mare as a Liberal candidate in the 1934 by-election, and the 1935 general election.
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.
Much of the rest of the Weston Grove estate has been used to develop the post-war suburb of Weston.
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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.
A turboshaft Eland is on display at the The Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare.
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.
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 Lloyd Martini (born on November 2, 1960 in Weston, Ontario) is a Canadian pair skater.
Peter Hadland Davis (born 18 June 1918 in Weston-super-Mare; died 5 March 1992 in Edinburgh) was a British botanist.
The Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare is the only pier in the world that is linked to an island.
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.
The Bristol to Exeter Line runs between Bristol and Exeter via the Nailsea, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater and Taunton.
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.
Tester died at the age of 89 in a nursing home in Weston, Massachusetts on March 21, 1993.
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.
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.
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.
She is married with two children and lives with her family in Weston, Massachusetts.
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.
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 (born 8 February 1979) is an actress and television presenter also a former glamour model originally from Weston-super-Mare, England
Robert Fisher Tomes, English farmer and zoologist, was born here on 4 August 1823.
The architect R. Phené Spiers restored the building in the 1870s, repairing the tower and adding the south porch and new seating.
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 was pronounced as Westune in the 1086 Doomsday Book, it was included in the Hundred of Hodnet within the county of Shropshire.
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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, 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.
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Weston, McLean County, Illinois - a tiny village in unincorporated McLean County.
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 is a deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Weston, and the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England.
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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.
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).
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.
Weston scored his victories with either one of two observer aces—Walter Noble or Ernest Deighton—manning the guns in the rear seat.
Pevsner was dismissive about the Priory, saying that Brooke Priory was the only monastery in Rutland as "Edith Weston hardly counts as one".
During childhood Weston moved frequently, and by his own account, spent some time travelling with the popular Hutchinson Family Singers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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).
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.
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.
He then returned as "Robert Weston" in 1991, and again as "Ian Davenport" in 2004.
This collaboration was conducted in Weston's house in Twickenham until his death in 1936.
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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.
Weston was elevated to the peerage on 13 April 1628, as Baron Weston, of Neyland.
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.
Garfield Weston Foundation's Outstanding Principals Awards Program conferences in Vancouver and Calgary.
(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.
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).
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.
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 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 was founded by Abbot Leo A. Rudloff of Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem in 1953.
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.
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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.
The couple settled on property in Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire, which had come to Margaret through her first marriage.
Bill Hinton (William Frederick Weston 'Bill' Hinton) (1895–1976), British professional footballer