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unusual facts about Willingdon


Tony Kuo

In the 2005 B.C. general election Kuo was the DRBC candidate in the riding of Burnaby-Willingdon.


British Automobile Racing Club

The event held on Sunday, June 2, 1957, was run in conjunction with the BARC 11th Annual Rally at Eastbourne, a 50-mile road event held the day before, starting at the Grasshopper Inn near Westerham, with intermittent driving tests, including one at Butts Hill, Willingdon, and then on to Eastbourne, via Beachy Head.

Firle Hill Climb

The BARC event held on Sunday 2 June 1957, was run in conjunction with the BARC 11th Annual Rally at Eastbourne, a 50-mile road event held the day before, starting at the Grasshopper Inn near Westerham, with intermittent driving tests, including one at Butts Hill, Willingdon, and then on to Eastbourne, via Beachy Head.

Seven Days to Noon

Detective Superintendent Folland (André Morell) of Scotland Yard's Special Branch is charged with tracking down Willingdon and stopping him.

Vasant Shankar Kanetkar

Kanetkar spent most of his early life in Pune, and later, Sangli, where his father was a professor at Willingdon College.

Willingdon Island

Willingdon Island is significant as the home for the Port of Kochi, as well as the Kochi Naval Base (the Southern Naval Command) of the Indian Navy and Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, a constituent unit of Indian Council of Agricultural Research.


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