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12 unusual facts about Windsor, Berkshire


Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier

His elder brother the duc d'Orléans wanted to take him to Devon to benefit from the fresh air but, twelve miles out of Twickenham, they had to stop at an inn at Salthill (near Windsor).

Crooked House of Windsor

The Crooked House of Windsor (also known as the Market Cross House) in Windsor, England, is a building constructed in 1592, now a restaurant.

Hampton Park, Ottawa

Many streets in the Hampton Park neighbourhood are named for upper-class neighbourhoods of London, including Kensington, Piccadilly, Mayfair, and Windsor.

Hounslow Heath

Various armies used the heath due to its nearness to London, Windsor and Hampton Court.

New Windsor, Maryland

It was renamed in the early 19th century, possibly after its English namesake.

Norwich Over the Water

After this experiment launched further pilot schemes in Burslem, Windsor and Haddington.

Roderick McLean

Roderick McLean (died June 9, 1921) attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria on March 2, 1882, at Windsor, England, with a pistol.

Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society

During visits to the Island Her Majesty has also been presented with prize 'Jersey' cows to join the Royal herd at Windsor.

Scottish State Coach

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also used it at Windsor during the Queen's sixtieth birthday celebrations in 1986.

White Lilies Island

The name of this album comes from the location of Imbruglia's home in Windsor.

William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan

At the battle of Worcester in 1651, where he commanded a brigade, he was taken prisoner and carried to Windsor, but managed to escape and reach the king at Paris.

Yellowroot

It was grown by Bowles in his garden at Myddelton House, near Enfield, Middlesex, and gardens that currently cultivate it include the Savill Garden at Windsor, Berkshire and the Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.


1926–27 Detroit Cougars season

Olympia Stadium wasn't finished being built in time for the 1926–27 season, so the Cougars began play in Border Cities Arena right across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.

Anthony Farindon

In 1634 Farindon was presented by John Bancroft, bishop of Oxford, to the vicarage of Bray, Berkshire; and in 1639, through the interest of William Laud, he obtained in addition the post of divinity lecturer in the Chapel Royal at Windsor.

Artist and the Author

Although Tony Johannot was first used to illustrate Ainsworth's first work in the Ainsworth's Magazine, Windsor Castle, Cruikshank became the dominant illustrator and replaced him in the role for the majority of the novel.

Baron Lisle

Robert de Lisle of Rougemont married Alice FitzGerold (grand-daughter of Henry I FitzGerold (d.1173/4)), the heiress of Kingston in the parish of Sparsholt, Berkshire.

Bartholomew Tipping IV

Bartholomew was the son of John Tipping of Chequers at Stokenchurch in Oxfordshire (now Buckinghamshire) and Woolley Park at Chaddleworth in Berkshire and his wife, Mary Spire.

Basil Barton

Windsor was a former Communist who had been MP for Bethnal Green North East in the 1920s, and he defeated Barton with an 8% swing.

Berkshire Industrial Farm

The Berkshire Industrial Farm, (previously known as the Burnham Industrial Farm) in Canaan, New York, was a rural residential facility for troubled young men from the New York area in the late 19th Century.

Bob Losure

Earlier on, he was one of the 20/20 News anchors during the "Big 8" years at CKLW radio in Windsor / Detroit.

Bowery Amphitheatre

By 1880 the name was changed to the Windsor Theater (under the management of John A. Stevens), which burnt down in November 1883, but was rebuilt and by 1885 was the Windsor Roller Skating Rink.

Clive Scott

Most recently, Scott and Levine had written and produced the albums Northern Soul 2007 and Disco 2008, both recorded in Scott's 'Racetrack' Studios in Ascot, Berkshire.

Colin Windsor

Four computer models for the ZX81 micro-computer, C.G. Windsor, 1983, ISBN 978-0-9509197-0-6

Crown in Saskatoon

Some named for royal family titles including Duchess Street, Duke Street, Empress Avenue and Street, King Crescent and Street, Prince of Wales Avenue, Princess Street and Queen Street, while others named for royal houses include Hanover Avenue and York Avenue, and some named for royal castles include Balmoral Street, Osborne Street and Windsor Street.

Edgbarrow

Edgbarrow School, a secondary comprehensive school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England

Edmund Yard Robbins

Edmund Yard Robbins (b. 29 May 1867, Windsor, New Jersey – d. 30 May 1942, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American philosopher.

Fettiplace baronets

The Fettiplace Baronetcy, of Childrey in the County of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), was a title in the Baronetage of England.

Florence Kate Upton

The original Golliwogg and Dutch Dolls resided for many years at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country estate in Berkshire.

Fred's Frozen Foods

As of 2002, both brands are operated by Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD, which is ultimately owned by the Hojel and Meinig families through their holding company HM International based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Frederick Thrupp

Thrupp executed the monument to Lady Coleridge at Ottery St. Mary in Devon; the reredos representing the Last Supper in St. Clement's, York; and the monument to Hugh Nicholas Pearson in Sonning Church, Berkshire, in 1883.

G.I. American Universities

Two further campuses were later established, in August 1945: the first in the French resort town of Biarritz and the second in the English town of Shrivenham, Berkshire.

GNR Stirling 4-2-2

Bagnall had earlier, in 1893, supplied a similar model (works number 1425) to Lord Downshire of Easthampstead Park, Crowthorne Berkshire.

Godfrey Goodman

He made rapid progress in the Church, and was made successively prebend of Westminster in 1607; Rector of West Isley, Berkshire, in 1616; Rector of Kinnerton, Gloucester; Canon of Windsor in 1617; Dean of Rochester in 1621; and finally Bishop of Gloucester, 1624-1655.

Gordon Cullen

Cullen lived in the small village of Wraysbury (Berkshire) from 1958 until his death, aged 80, on 11 August 1994, following a serious stroke.

Greater Hartford

Commuter rail on the same line is proposed, with rush-hour service centered on Hartford and a shuttle to Bradley International Airport from the Windsor Locks station.

Gustav Hamel

In the exploit for which he is best remembered, Hamel flew a Blériot on Saturday 9 September 1911, covering the 21 miles between Hendon and Windsor in 18 minutes (took off at 4:55pm and arrived at 5:13pm) to deliver the first official airmail to the Postmaster General.

Hawkesbury Radio

The station broadcast out of a tiny building, which housed the studio and transmitter in Fitzgerald Street Windsor for many years, before moving to its current site in 1992 in an adjacent building.

Henry Brinklow

Henry Brinklow was the ninth child of Sibyl (or Isabell) Butler, and her husband, Robert Brinklow, a farmer in Kintbury, Berkshire.

Hotchkiss House

Jedediah Hotchkiss House, Windsor, New York, listed on the NRHP in New York

Kennett River, Victoria

The river was named by surveyor George Smythe after the River Kennet in Berkshire, England

Keri Windsor

Windsor became a foot fetishist after attending a swinging party, and, while on a radio show once, Windsor sucked on adult film star Juli Ashton's feet during an interview, then ended up sucking the feet of two LA Kings hockey players, Kip Brennan and Brad Norton.

Lady Nicholas Windsor

Paola Windsor speaks seven languages, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and at Wycombe Abbey, where she was William Johnston Yapp Scholar.

Malcolm Campbell-Johnston

Born in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England he was the son of Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnston and his wife Frances Ellen Bury Campbell-Johnston (née Paliser).

Prestel

The Prestel system was implemented by Telecom Australia and renamed Viatel, with the centre of operations in Windsor, Melbourne, Australia.

Rand formula

Supreme Court of Canada Justice Ivan Rand, the eponym of this law, introduced this formula in 1946 as an arbitration decision ending the Ford Strike of 1945 in Windsor, Ontario.

Rex Barnes

In February 2011, he announced plans to challenge incumbent MHA Ray Hunter for the Progressive Conservative party nomination in Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South for the 2011 provincial election.

Staines to Windsor Line

From Windsor to London Waterloo takes about 55 minutes, some 20 minutes longer than the quickest journeys to London Paddington from the other station at Windsor, Windsor & Eton Central, although according to Network Rail timetables, the journey time to many central London locations is similar from both stations.

Star Maidens

Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire.

Stratfield Saye Priory

Stratfield Saye Priory was an alien priory belonging to the Abbey of Vallemont, located at Beech Hill in the Berkshire part of the parish of Stratfield Saye (in England).

Stubby Clapp

After playing Bantam hockey in Windsor, Clapp played an important role for the Windsor Bulldogs (currently, LaSalle Vipers) from 1990 to 1992.

The Kingsnakes

The band has toured in various parts of the US and in Windsor- some of the highlights have been in New York City as part of an after-party for the MC5 documentary "A True Testimonial" shown at the Annual Tribeca Film Festival.

The Leaky Establishment

The book draws on some of Langford's own experiences working at the United Kingdom government's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire.

The Soft Boys

The band formed in 1976 in Cambridge, England as Dennis and the Experts comprising Robyn Hitchcock (guitar), Rob Lamb (half brother of radio host and author Charlie Gillett; guitar), Andy Metcalfe (bass), and Morris Windsor (drums).

The Victorian Kitchen Garden

It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire, although at the time the series was made Chilton Foliat was in the county of Berkshire.

Tim Abeyie

His personal best time is 20.57 seconds, achieved in July 2008 at Eton, Berkshire.

Violet click beetle

One of the host trees at Windsor blew down in the Great Storm of 1987, but was re-erected solely as a host for the violet click beetle.

W47DL-D

The signal can be seen throughout the city of Detroit, its suburbs and the nearby Windsor area.

William Darrell of Littlecote

He died 1 October 1589, aged 50, and is commemorated by a memorial window in the church of St. Mary, Kintbury, Berkshire.

Windsor Forge Mansion

The three objects are pieces by noted artist and poet Blanche Nevin (1841-1925), who purchased Windsor Forge Mansion in 1899.

Windsor knot

The Windsor knot is the only tie knot that is to be used by all personnel in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Air Force Cadets (ATC and CCF(RAF)) in the UK when wearing their black tie while in uniform.