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5 unusual facts about Wheatley


CIII-DT

The transmitter is located southwest of Wheatley, between Wheatley and Leamington, but its signal is aimed northeast (towards Chatham–Kent), and barely reaches Windsor and Detroit – presumably to protect the Detroit stations.

Wheatley, Ontario

Hike Metal Products, a shipbuilding/refitting/fabricating company based at the harbour, is the builder of the Maid of the Mist, the vessel used at Niagara Falls for the tours under the great Canadian waterfall.

Wheatley, Oxfordshire

Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, disliked the building and had it rebuilt in 1855-1857 by the Oxford Diocesan architect, G. E. Street.

Wheatley has a post office, a branch of Barclays bank, an Asda supermarket, a Co-Op pharmacy, several shops in the High Street, and numerous village societies, including the Wheatley Society and a Village Produce Association which holds an annual show.

WIOT

The station also experiences regular interference from Geneva, Ohio's WKKY, which is also on 104.7, near the Wheatley, Ontario and Comber, Ontario areas (mostly in the southeastern corner of Essex County).


Boxford Lathe

The original factory was in Box Tree Mills, Wheatley, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

Doug Wheatley

Doug Wheatley, sometimes credited as Douglas H. Wheatley or Doug Tropea-Wheatley, is a Canadian comic book artist that has illustrated numerous comic books including several Star Wars stories for Dark Horse Comics.

Frank C. Papé

He also created dust jacket illustrations for the first editions of several Wheatley novels, including The Devil Rides Out (1935), Strange Conflict (1941), The Haunting of Toby Jugg (1948), and To the Devil a Daughter (1953).

Gracious!

Before Davis ultimately moved to Germany, where he has resided ever since, he and Wheatley recorded material together, along with Rob Townsend from Family, keyboard player Billy Livsey and the horn section from The Rumour.

Headington Road

The road did not exist until 1775, when it was cut through the countryside as part of the scheme to replace the old route from Oxford to London (via Cheney Lane, Old Road, Shotover, and Wheatley) by a new road via Stokenchurch.

Hillhead subway station

The work is by Alasdair Gray, and was developed over fourteen months with artist Nichol Wheatley using ceramics.

John Hamblin

He came to Australia as a Ten Pound Pom in the 1960s and secured roles in television, including regular roles in soap operas Class of '74, The Restless Years, Case for the Defence (in which he played the lead role of Case), The Young Doctors (in which he played Dr Dan Wheatley) and Sons and Daughters.

Leon F. Wheatley

He was born on February 20, 1872, in West Franklin, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, the son of William Wheatley.

Lucinda Walsh

Lucinda Walsh (née Mary Ellen Walters; formerly Guest, Esteban, Dixon, Stenbeck and Wheatley) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns.

Nadia Wheatley

In 2005 Nadia Wheatley and Ken Searle were invited by the committee to work with the children on "the theme of freedom".

Northern State Parkway

While the compromise was a success for the residents of Wheatley Hills, according to Robert Caro in The Power Broker, the $175,000 was a smokescreen for the fact that the land purchasing would cost $2.25 million (1929 USD) and rather than the locals, the taxpayers would be stuck with the majority (over 90%) of the bill from the acquisition.

Rebecca Wheatley

Wheatley grew up in Teddington, Middlesex, where she went to St Catherine's convent school, before gaining her BA in English literature from the University of Wales, Lampeter.

Today the Sun's on Us

"Today the Sun's on Us" was written by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Steve Robson, Nina Woodford and produced by Jeremy Wheatley, Brio Taliaferro.

Wheatley High School

Palestine–Wheatley High School, located in Palestine, Arkansas; replaced the former Wheatley High School (Pirates) when local school districts merged in the late 1980s.

Wheatley Hills

North 1 East Rugby Union team, Wheatley Hills RUFC are named in conjunction with the suburb.

Wheatley railway station

One of the pub's bars is decorated with many items of railway memorabilia, some of which relate to the former railway through Wheatley station.

Wheatley School

Bablake School, an independent school in Coventry, England, who alumni are known as "Old Wheatleyans" after principal benefactor Thomas Wheatley

William Wheatley

On March 24, 1843, Wheatley took a farewell benefit at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and temporarily retired from the Stage.


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