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14 unusual facts about Whitehaven


Brad Kavanagh

He was a student at St Benedict's Catholic High School in Whitehaven.

Brad Lewis Kavanagh (born 21 August 1992) is an English actor and singer-songwriter, originally from Whitehaven, Cumbria, and is best known for his role as Fabian Rutter in the Nickelodeon TV series House of Anubis.

Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

The line opened on 2 January 1865: trains from Penrith began to work through to Whitehaven along the CK&PR/C&WR route from 1 July 1865, when the C&WR station was closed: that railway was absorbed by the LNWR in 1866.

Furness Railway Class 115

Their main duty was to haul express passenger trains between Carnforth and Whitehaven.

Furness Railway K2

They lasted until the late 1920s and early 1930s, performing secondary duties on the home turf, between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven.

Gareth White

Gareth Andrew White (born 28 January 1979 in Whitehaven, Cumbria) is an English cricketer who played one List A fixture for Cumberland County Cricket Club.

North Channel Naval Duel

Following an unsuccessful attempt to raid the port of Whitehaven in Cumberland, on the night of 17–18 April, he harassed shipping in the North Channel, then on the night of 20–21 April Ranger entered Belfast Lough in northern Ireland, with the intention of seizing a Royal Navy ship moored off Carrickfergus, HMS Drake.

Ricky Andalcio

Ricky Andalcio is an English chef, best known for owning two restaurants Zest Harbourside and Zest Restaurant, both in Whitehaven, Cumbria.

Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Whitehaven

Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet FRS (9 November 1642 – 17 January 1706) was an English gentleman and landowner at Whitehaven.

SS Günther Russ

In 1947, Empire Condorrat was sold to Whitehaven Shipping Co, Whitehaven and was renamed Kenton.

The Deemster

Gilcrist's departure on the King Orry to Liverpool is anachronistic, as most sailings from the island went to Whitehaven at the time, and the name 'King Orry' reflects that of a 19th-century Steam Packet, whereas 18th century packets were usually given names like the 'Duke of Athol'.

Whitehaven A.F.C.

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Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway

In reality this was an independent railway to the WC&ER as it was jointly owned by the WC&ER and the Furness Railway and was known as the Cleator and Furness Railway, although it was worked by the WC&ER.

William Howgill

Howgill was the son of William Howgill, organist at Whitehaven; he took his father's position after his death in 1790.


2007 Whitehaven RLFC season

This article is about the 2007 season of Whitehaven.

A595 road

Copeland MP Jamie Reed and Cumbria County Council leader Stewart Young have been pressing the UK government for an eastern relief road to take the A595 away from a bottleneck through the town of Whitehaven.

Anthony Baxter

He began his career as a reporter for BBC Radio Cumbria, and spent time as a district reporter in Whitehaven.

Backshunt

Part of the old Cleator and Workington Junction Railway was maintained in Rowrah as a backshunt from Rowrah Head Quarry on to the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway.

Battery Cameron

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who spied for Soviet & Russian intelligence agencies until 2001, had a "dead drop" marker at the utility pole on the corner of Foxhall & Whitehaven, just outside the fence of the reservoir (formerly known as Battery Cameron).

Black Combe

The other stations were Dent ("Dent Hill"), Scilly Banks (on the outskirts of Whitehaven), High Pike and Cross Fell.

Caleb Rotheram

He was educated at the grammar school of Great Blencow, Cumberland, under Anthony Ireland, and prepared for the Presbyterian ministry in the academy of Thomas Dixon at Whitehaven.

CFM Radio

In September 1995 they also started transmitting to West Cumbria from their transmitters at Broughton Moor and Whitehaven.

Clayton Friend

After a stint at Whitehaven between 1992 and 1995, Friend returned home and played for the Counties Manukau Heroes in the Lion Red Cup.

Garry Purdham

Purdham began his professional rugby league career in 1999 with Whitehaven.

Hiduminium

These materials were so crucial to aircraft production that with the outbreak of World War II a shadow factory was established in the remote area of Cumberland (now Cumbria), at Distington, near Whitehaven.

Interstate 55 in Tennessee

The highway enters the city from Southaven in Desoto County, Mississippi and passes through the Whitehaven area of the city, bypassing Memphis International Airport to the west.

ITV Border

ITV Border also maintains a bureau for Scottish Parliament coverage in Edinburgh with reporters and camera crews based locally in Dumfries, Galloway, Kendal, Selkirk and Whitehaven.

ITV News Lookaround

The district reporters announced were Victoria Hoe in Kendal, Hannah Lomas in Carlisle, Lee Madan in Selkirk, Stuart Pollitt in Whitehaven, Olivia Richwald in Dumfries and Kathryn Samson in Edinburgh.

John Lindow Calderwood

The name Lindow came to him from his mother, one of the Lindow family of Bowness and Ingwell, Whitehaven, who had mining and other interests in Egremont.

Kevin Tamati

He has coached the New Zealand Māori, and professionally for Salford, Chorley Borough, Lancashire Lynx, British Army Rugby League and Whitehaven.

Matthias Wolverley Attwood

He was the only son of Matthias Attwood (1779-1851), sometime member of parliament for Whitehaven and his wife Susannah née Twells, and was descended from the Attwood family of Wolverley Court, Worcestershire.

Northern Circuit

The Northern Circuit stretches from Carlisle in Cumbria at its northernmost point, running through Lakeland to the port of Whitehaven in the West, on through Preston and Burnley in Lancashire to Manchester, Liverpool and Chester.

Parton, Cumbria

The port was developed in the early 17th century to cater for Moresby's coal trade, but fell into decline after two generations of the Lowther family turned the hamlet of Whitehaven into a major port.

Rob Purdham

This followed selection for an England U21 tour of South Africa and an impressive start to the 2002 season with Whitehaven.

Ron McGarry

Ronald James McGarry (born 5 December 1937 in Whitehaven) is a former professional footballer, who played centre forward for Whitehaven, Workington, Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Barrow, South Coast United, Bulli, Balgownie Rangers and Gateshead.

Steve Renouf

Renouf's Wigan Warriors debut came in round four of the Challenge Cup against Whitehaven at Central Park.

Super League X

On the 3 October the Rugby Football League announced that both finalist in this competition, Castleford Tigers and Whitehaven were eligible for promotion, hence two teams were relegated.

West Cumberland Hospital

In 1924, the Earl of Lonsdale sold Whitehaven Castle to Mr H. Walker, who then donated the building to the people of Cumbria, along with monies to convert it into a hospital to replace the Victorian Whitehaven Hospital.

Whitehaven Beach

Whitehaven Beach is a 7 km stretch along Whitsunday Island.

William Angwin

He left Cornwall in 1882 to work as a builder in Whitehaven, Cumberland (now Cumbria), where he joined several reform movements and worked for temperance.

Xavier Petulengro

Unusually among Gypsies at the time, he learned to read and write, later claiming that this was due to the assistance of Admiral Arthur Wilson VC of the Royal Navy and his sister, but also with the help of a farmer's wife, Martha Clark, in Whitehaven, Cumbria, where the family spent several winters.