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unusual facts about Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway



Ahead by a Century

The song's music video, directed by Eric Yealand, was filmed on a small farm in Whitby, Ontario.

Aislaby

Aislaby, Scarborough, near Whitby in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire

Aloha Yachts

Aloha Yachts were a range of sailing keelboats manufactured in Whitby, Ontario, Canada by Ouyang Boat Works, founded by Ti Ouyang who had previously worked for Whitby Boat Works.

Averil Cameron

14: Late Antiquity: Empires and Successors, AD 425-600 (Cambridge University Press 2000), ISBN 0-521-32591-9 (ed. with Bryan Ward-Perkins and Michael Whitby)

Aymond

Bred by Whitby, Ontario's James Heffering, he was out of the mare, Ablaze, and sired by Roselyon, a son of the 1911 Epsom Derby winner and British Horseracing Hall of Fame inductee, Sunstar.

Beverley Hughes

Beverley Hughes was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire in 1950 and was educated at Ellesmere Port Girls' Grammar School (now called The Whitby High School) on Sycamore Drive in Whitby, Ellesmere Port.

Bob Attersley

On August 25, 1984, Attersley presented Anne Ottenbrite with the Key to the Town of Whitby and named a swimming pool in her honour.

Caedmon School

The poet Cædmon was well known to have been buried in the English town of Whitby, after which the Whitby School had itself been named.

Carol Townend

Born in 1953 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, Carol was educated in Whitby by Anglican nuns within sight of Whitby Abbey.

Chronicon Paschale

Chronicon Paschale 284–628 AD, translated by Michael Whitby and Mary Whitby (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1989) ISBN 0-85323-096-X

Daniel Whitby

The son of Thomas Whitby, rector (1631-7) of Rushden, Northamptonshire, then rector of Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, he was born at Rushden on 24 March 1638.

Durham Centre

Created in 1987, the riding contained the town of Whitby from south of Taunton Road.

East Durham Link

The East Durham Link is one of two proposed freeways to connect the future east extension of Highway 407 with Highway 401; the West Durham Link, to be located to the west in Whitby, is the second.

Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman

Portman was the son of Edward Portman, of Bryanston and Orchard in Dorset, and his wife Lucy, daughter of Reverend Thomas Whitby.

Frederick Richard West

His second marriage was in 1827 to Theresa John Cornwallis Whitby, the only daughter of Captain John Whitby RN, and Mary Anna Theresa Symonds.

Gertrude Stubbs

Stubbs, the story goes, was born in 1879, in Whitby, England, the daughter of George Stubbs, a train engineer and his wife, Violet, a seamstress.

Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique

Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique is a famous popular scientific treatise and self-help book published in London in 1926 by Dutch gynecologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, retired director of the Gynecological Clinic in Haarlem, and "one of the major writers on human sexuality during the early twentieth century" (Frayser & Whitby, p. 300).

James Rogers Armstrong

His son, also named James Rogers Armstrong, took over the family business in 1856, when his father retired to Whitby.

Larpool Viaduct

The viaduct was constructed for the Scarborough and Whitby Railway to carry a single track line over the River Esk and valley near Whitby, as well as crossing the Esk Valley Railway, and Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway.

Mariposa Township, Ontario

Such crops as were exported were teamed in the winter time south to a village (now deserted) called Port Hoover, on the north shore of Lake Scugog, thence across the lake to Caesarea, in Scugog, and south by road to Port Whitby, on Lake Ontario.

Mark Whitby

Founded engineers Whitby and Bird in 1983, latterly whitbybird, which merged with Danish engineers Ramboll in 2007 becoming Ramboll Whitbybird and in 2009 Ramboll UK.

Mike Whitby

Whitby has been closely linked with the development of the Birmingham Big City Plan.

Mountains and hills of England

Near the North Yorkshire coastal towns of Whitby and Scarborough, and extending inland as far as Thirsk, the North York Moors are one of the few major upland areas in eastern England.

North York Moors

More centrally, a minor road departs from the A170 at Keldholme and passes through Castleton before joining the A171 which connects Whitby and Guisborough.

Richard Guildford

Next day he embarked at Rye along with John Whitby, prior of Gisburn in Yorkshire, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Robin Hood's Bay railway station

The closure of the lines to Whitby was marked by the Whitby Moors Rail Tour run by the Stephenson Locomotive Society and the Manchester Lococmotive Society and was hauled by preserved LNER K4 2-6-0 no.3442 The Great Marquess and York shed's K1 2-6-0 no.62005 (which resides at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in the care of the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG).

Roy Edwards

In 1958 at age 21, Edwards backstopped the Whitby Dunlops, Canada's representative, to the World Hockey Championship at Oslo, Norway, posting a perfect 7–0 record with three shutouts and an 0.86 goals-against average.

Scouting sex abuse cases

In 1999 David John White, a scout leader in the Porirua suburb of Whitby, pleaded guilty to eight charges of indecently assaulting scouts at his home between 1984 and 1998.

Sheffield International Venues

SIV also runs the Whitby Pavilion and the Scarbourough Spa, on the North Yorkshire coast.

Sony Canada

With headquarters in Toronto, sales offices in Vancouver and Montreal and distribution centres in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Whitby, Ontario, approximately 1,200 employees support a network of more than 500 authorized dealers and 70 Sony Style retail locations across Canada.

The Good Hope

The Good Hope, a play written by Herman Heijermans in 1901, was translated in a new version for the Royal National Theatre, which relocated the action to the Yorkshire fishing community of Whitby in 1900, by Lee Hall, writer of the award-winning Billy Elliot and Spoonface Steinberg.

The Martian

Of a rather loose construction, its main points of interest lie for today's readers in lively descriptions of "la vie de bohême" and different parts of Paris through the second half of the 19th century, pages on Mechelen in Belgium and Whitby in the 1870s, and its superb illustrations.

The Whitby

In fact, The Whitby has a definite "mystique", with legendary celebrities such as Doris Day and Betty Grable listed among former residents.

Touch Press

Touch Press was founded by Theodore Gray, Max Whitby, John Cromie and Stephen Wolfram shortly after the announcement of the launch of the iPad.

Truncated railway station termini

Whilst there are many examples of station buildings and other structures, such as the redundant platforms at Whitby being sold for redevelopment.

Try Honesty

The music video for "Try Honesty," which was directed by Sean Michael Turrell, features the band playing in the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital in Whitby, Ontario.

West Durham Link

The freeway, which is one of two as-yet unnumbered connectors for the 407 extension, will be located entirely within Whitby, within a kilometre of its western border at Durham Regional Road 23 (Lake Ridge Road).

Whitby Township, Ontario

Whitby Township was one of five townships along Lake Ontario named for towns in northeast England (York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington).

In 1855, the Town of Whitby was incorporated as a separate municipality in the southern portion of the Township and in 1858, the Township of East Whitby was formed from the eastern portion of the municipality near Oshawa.

Whitby Urban District

It comprised the present Whitby Town Council plus Briggswath (the present Scarborough Borough Council wards of Mayfield, Streonshalh and Whitby West Cliff).

Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway

From the beginning the line was run by the NER, which held the lease and ran services to Whitby along the Esk Valley Line and the Malton – Whitby line.

The Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway (WRMU) was a railway line in North Yorkshire, England, built in the late 19th century, running from Loftus on the Yorkshire coast to the Esk at Whitby, and connecting Middlesbrough via previously built lines in Cleveland to Whitby.

Loftus was connected to the rail system by the 1870s via an extension of the Cleveland Railway: both the Cleveland Railway and the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway were constructed in the 1860s connecting Middlesbrough to Guisborough.

In the 1970s the northern section of the line was revived after ICI developed Boulby potash mine next to the former route, north of the village of Boulby in Redcar and Cleveland.


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