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unusual facts about Woodside, Dudley



Addiscombe tram stop

The tram stop is built on the site of Bingham Road Halt on the Woodside and South Croydon Railway which was closed in 1915.

Balgownie transmitting station

Balgownie transmitting station is a relay transmitter of Durris, situated in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, and covering Tillydrone, Woodside, parts of Old Aberdeen and the Abbey Road area of Torry.

Barmouth

Barmouth is (geographically) one of the closest seaside resorts to the English West Midlands and a large proportion of its tourist visitors, as well as its permanent residents, are from Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Dudley and other parts of the Black Country, and Telford, Shropshire.

D. B. Woodside

From 2002 to 2003, Woodside guest starred in 14 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayers final season, as Principal Robin Wood, Buffy's boss and son of a Slayer.

David Dudley Field II

David Dudley Field II (February 13, 1805 – April 13, 1894) was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure.

Dinky Dog

The show is about two girls, ditzy blonde Sandy (voiced by Jackie Joseph) and smart, sensible, bespectacled brunette Monica (voiced by Julie Bennett), living with their uncle, Dudley (voiced by Frank Nelson).

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield

His second wife was Anne Bagenal, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bagenal, sister of Henry Bagenal and widow of Dudley Loftus, son of the Archbishop of Dublin.

Dudley High School

Dudley Hign School is a co-ed high school on Toorak Hill, Suva, Fiji that is run by the Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma.

Dudley News

Although the newspaper was created 11 years after the creation of the modern Dudley borough, it only covers Dudley and the neighbouring towns of Sedgley, Coseley, Brierley Hill and Kingswinford.

Dudley Priory

In 1926, Dudley County Borough council purchased Dudley Priory and the surrounding rural land (approximately a third of which existed within the Sedgley Urban District, prompting a change in boundaries) as part of plans to develop a new residential area.

Dudley Riggs

They were originally at a site called "Dudley Riggs Café Espresso" on East Hennepin Avenue, where Riggs operated the first espresso machine in the state.

Dudley W. Adams

Dudley Whitney Adams (November 30, 1831, Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts – February 13, 1897, Tangerine, Florida) was a horticulturalist who led the granger movement.

Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley

Their son was Edward Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Powis, to whom his uncle John, Lord Dudley, sold the Tiptoft-Dudley portion of Powis Castle.

England riots

1991 England riots, mainly in Oxford, Cardiff, Dudley, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne; riots in Birmingham around the same time

Erwin Dudley

Dudley's wife is the niece of Sylvester Croom, the first African-American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.

German submarine U-461

She had left Bordeaux on 27 July 1943, but was hardly out of the Bay of Biscay, northwest of Cape Ortegal, Spain, when she was sunk on 30 July by an Australian Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron RAAF piloted by Flight Lieutenant Dudley Marrows.

Glasgow Inner Ring Road

The North Flank of the ring (the Townhead and Woodside sections) runs between an interchange at St George's Cross in Woodside and an interchange at Townhead, passing through the districts of Garnethill and Cowcaddens.

Jane Dudley

For other people named Jane Dudley, see Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey

Jared Dudley

Dudley was traded to the Suns on December 18, 2008, along with teammate Jason Richardson and the Bobcats' 2010 second round pick, in exchange for Raja Bell, Boris Diaw, and Sean Singletary.

John P. McGarr

McGarr was born in Woodside, Queens, New York and attended Corpus Christi Grammar School.

Joseph Dudley

 238, “Gov. Joseph Dudley (16 - ), son of Gov. Thomas Dudley, No 1. HL, own hair long, robe and steinkirk, right hand gesturing across body. Repro. Hist. Dudley Fam opp p. 834, photo by Elmer Chickering, Boston. Ref.: Hist. Dudley Fam., pp. 757, 163, “Memorial of Reunion,” p.

Leopold Eidlitz

Mr. Dudley was a descendant of both Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), of the Massachusetts Bay Corporation, and second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and Henry II of England (1133–1189) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204).

Lyndon Woodside

Lyndon Woodside (March 23, 1935, Florence, South Carolina-August 23, 2005, Englewood, New Jersey) was the 10th conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York.

Manx Rumpy

On realizing that that these bantams live without tail feathers to escape foxes, Kent Poultry Club chairman Dudley Mallett gave the tiny chickens the name Rumpless Game Bantams.

Metropolitan Borough of Dudley

Dudley MBC maintains 78 primary schools (39 include nursery facilities), 20 secondary schools, and 7 special schools, along with 3 Pupil Referral Units and 1 standalone nursery school.

Michael Gladis

He also provided the voice and MotionScan of Dudley Lynch in the game L.A. Noire and was Senior Seaman Yevgeny Borzenkov in the 2002 film K19: The Widowmaker.

Mons Hill

Its shared name with Mons Road in the Kates Hill area of Dudley is a coincidence, as that road's name was taken from the Battle of Mons during World War I.

Onkaparinga Valley Road

Onkaparinga Valley Road is a South Australian secondary road, connecting the towns of Birdwood, Woodside, Balhannah and Hahndorf with Meadows and Willunga on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

Perkins Eastman

Innovative prototype designs include Woodside Place (1991), a community for persons with Alzheimer’s disease, in Oakmont, Pennsylvania; House for Betty (2010), an experimental housing community designed for active adults who may be predisposed to Alzheimer’s disease; and The Green House Project (2012), intentionally small communities for groups of elders and staff.

Priory Estate

This school closed in 1990 due to falling pupil numbers, with the remaining pupils split between Castle High and The Coseley School.

Ramage

Nicholas Ramage, a character in Dudley Pope's Ramage series of historical novels

Remenham

His grandson and heir William Peere Williams Freeman dealt with the manor in 1833 and sold it to Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks – later a baronet.

Rosalie Crutchley

She is probably remembered best for her performances in the classic films Quo Vadis (1951) as Acte, Nero's confidante, and The Haunting (1963) as the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Dudley.

Rotary system

The first exchanges were installed in England at Darlington (10 October 1914) and Dudley (9 September 1916).

Sempringham

Another member of the Sempringham congregation at the time was the young Anne Dudley, later Anne Bradstreet, the colony's first published poet.

Sequoia Union High School District

The Sequoia Union High School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving the communities of Atherton, Belmont, East Palo Alto, Ladera, San Carlos, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, and Woodside.

Seventh Angel

Over the next few months Seventh Angel some local venues around Dudley and Stourbridge, including five performances at The Rock Tavern in Brierley Hill.

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.

Stephen F. Burkard

On January 23, 1935, he was arrested at his home in Woodside, Queens, on a bench warrant for first degree grand larceny.

The Torment

During the months following the album's release, the band played concerts in Dudley and Stourbridge, 5 times in Brierley Hill's The Rock Tavern club.

Tyler MacNiven

MacNiven first received attention in 1998 when, while a senior at Woodside High School in Woodside, California, he launched a political-style campaign to supplement his application to Stanford University, where he had wanted to go since the seventh grade.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1870

A special election was called to be held simultaneously with the regular election and Republican Joseph Rainey defeated Democrat C.W. Dudley to serve the remainder of the term for the 41st Congress.

William Fairbanks

He was then living at 115 Dudley Avenue in Venice, where he registered for the draft of World War I.

William Wade Dudley

In 1888 having been made Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Dudley was involved in the 1888 elections and one of the most intense political campaigns in decades, with Indiana dead even between Democrats and incumbent, President Grover Cleveland – and Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.

Woodside Barracks

Woodside Barracks is an Australian Army base located in South Australia near Inverbrackie and Woodside in South Australia.

Woodside Morris Men

In March 1965, Woodside Squire, Graham Wild, wrote a letter to all members of the team to inform them that, for one week only, the side would be meeting at the Railway Club, Watford, for practice, but not to worry, as practice would return to Finchley as soon as possible.

Woodside School, Ooty

Woodside School is a co-educational boarding school and day school situated on the outskirts of Udhagamandalam Tamil Nadu, India, a hill station which is more commonly known under its abbreviated name of Ooty.

Woodside, Dudley

Duncan Edwards, who played for Manchester United and England, and died in the Munich air disaster of 1958, was born in a house on Malvern Crescent on 1 October 1936, but grew up two miles away on the Priory Estate.


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