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5 unusual facts about Woburn


Frances Waldegrave

She delighted in private theatricals, and her favourite piece, which she acted over and over again both at Nuneham and Woburn, was the Honeymoon, because it had some allusions to her own position.

Live at Woburn

The concert was captured from a recording made from the stage soundboard on July 6, 1968 at the Woburn Music Festival in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England.

Neville Chesters

In 1975, he moved to Woburn, Bedfordshire and started a successful antiques renovation company known as Yesterdays Pine, specializing in antique and reproduction pine furniture and "correctabilia".

Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Quebec

The border crossing of Woburn-Coburn Gore is located roughly five kilometres from the town centre, linking Quebec Route 161 with Maine State Route 27.

Woburn, Bedfordshire

Tiger Moth airplane rallies continue at Woburn Abbey with the 2013 rally seeing over 80 vintage and classic aircraft in the air above the stately home.


Benjamin Thompson House-Count Rumford Birthplace

The Benjamin Thompson House, also known as the Count Rumford Birthplace, located at 90 Elm Street, in the North Woburn area of Woburn, Massachusetts, is the birthplace of scientist and inventor Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), who became Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire as well as Sir Benjamin Thompson of the United Kingdom.

Chaotic Wrestling

Chaotic Wrestling (CW) is an American independent wrestling promotion owned by Jamie Jamitkowski and operating throughout New England, with its home base in both Woburn, Massachusetts and Lowell, Massachusetts.

Eddie Bullock

In 1998, following the retirement of Alex Hay, Eddie became Managing Director of the prestigious Woburn Golf & Country Club; he took the club through significant changes with enormous success, and the club hosted many major national professional and amateur events, gaining continued success as one of the world’s best known tournament venues.

George Pinder

He was featured as a character in the movie A Civil Action, based on the Woburn toxic waste case and starring John Travolta.

John Gostwick

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries he acquired a considerable number of other properties and in 1538 was one of the judges who sentenced the Abbot of Woburn to be hanged for refusing to sign the Oath of Supremacy.

Jonathan Brooks House

The Jonathan Brooks House is a historic house at 2 Woburn Street in Medford, Massachusetts.

Ken Weafer

He was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, to Margaret E. Sullivan and Jeremiah F. Weafer (1862–1949), a barber, and died in Guilderland, New York.

Lidlington

Hence some London place names e.g. Bedford Square, Russell Square, Eversholt Street, Woburn Place and in Camden, NW1, Lidlington Place can be found near Mornington Crescent underground station.

Mascoma Corporation

The move would consolidate most of Mascoma's operations, which, until now, have been divided among Boston; a demonstration facility in Rome, New York; a Process and Development laboratory in Woburn, Massachusetts; and a lab in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where many of the company's employees already are based.

Nick Samaras

He was born in Foxton, Cambridgeshire, England, living there and on the island of Patmos, Greece, later settling in Woburn, Massachusetts, his father's home town.

Ragged Atlas

"Out on the Town with Rusty, 1967" – Frith met Rusty ("the epitome of cool") while performing at the York Folk Club in mid-1967; they became friends that summer, played at local Working Men's Clubs, and attended a Jimi Hendrix concert in Woburn, Bedfordshire; a few months later, after Frith had returned to university, Rusty was killed in a motorbike accident.

Sandra Lynch

During her tenure at Foley Hoag, Lynch became the first woman to head the firm's litigation practice, and was among the team of lawyers representing defendant W.R. Grace & Co. in the Woburn, Massachusetts, toxic tort trial (the subject of Jonathan Harr's 1995 book A Civil Action.) Lynch remained in private practice until being appointed to the First Circuit.

Skyworks

Skyworks Solutions, a manufacturer of semiconductor chips for communications technologies, headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts

Ultratech, Inc.

Within the United States, as of 2004, sales and support offices are also leased in Woburn, Massachusetts and Dallas, Texas.

Walter Jay Skinner

Skinner is noted for his role in the groundwater contamination case out of Woburn, Massachusetts, which became the basis for the book A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonFiction, and the subsequent film of the same name starring John Travolta (in which Skinner was portrayed by John Lithgow).

Woburn Golf and Country Club

The European Tour's British Masters was played at Woburn many times between 1979 and 2002, initially over the Duke's Course, and latterly over the Marquess Course.

Woburn Place

Woburn Place is a street in central London, England, named after Woburn Abbey.


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