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2 unusual facts about Wilford


Nottingham Express Transit

The Clifton route will go through densely populated residential areas to the south of the city, including the Meadows, Wilford/Ruddington Lane area and the Clifton Estate, to a new park and ride site serving the A453.

Robert Juckes Clifton

In 1868 building work began on the Clifton Colliery at Wilford after coal was found on the estate.


A Program for Monetary Reform

A Program for Monetary Reform was attributed on its cover page to six American economists: Paul H. Douglas, Irving Fisher, Frank D. Graham, Earl J. Hamilton, Wilford I. King, and Charles R. Whittlesey.

Aron Wilford

Aron Leslie Wilford (born 14 January 1982) is an English footballer who currently plays for Bentleigh Greens in the Victorian Premier League.

Derek Wilford

Saville suggested Wilford “wanted to demonstrate the way to deal with rioters in Londonderry was not for soldiers to shelter behind barricades like (as he put it) Aunt Sallies while being stoned, as he perceived the local troops had been doing, but instead to go aggressively after rioters, as he and his soldiers had been doing in Belfast”.

Mikkel Flagstad

He led his own Be Bop Band (1949–50), and joined the orchestras of Tage Wilford and Hans Backe (1945).

MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians

In 2007, Wilford Taylor, the Chief of the MOWA Choctaw Indians, agreed to participate in a DNA autosomal test that would map his genes, as part of the Genographic Project administered by the National Geographic Society.

Ralph Wulford

He is described in Robert Fabyan's Chronicles as son of a cordwainer in London, and he was not improbably a member of the London and Kent family of Wilford for example, see Sir James Wilford.

Sara Wilford

Sara Delano Roosevelt diBonaventura Wilford (born March 13, 1932) is the daughter of Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, a prominent philanthropist in medicine and art, and James Roosevelt, the oldest son of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

Silverdale, Nottingham

Bounded by the Clifton Estate, Fairham Brook, Compton Acres (formerly the Wilford Brick Works) and the former Great Central Railway then after the 1923 re-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway Manchester to Marylebone Station rail line, Wilford Village and Ruddington Village.

St Wilfrid's Church, Wilford

The church contains two memorials to the Nottingham poet Henry Kirke White who drew much of his inspiration from Wilford and Clifton.

The Gumps

Jazz musician Min Leibrook, born Wilford Leibrook, received his nickname from Andy Gump's wife, Min.


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