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8 unusual facts about tweed


Berwick Castle

Large parts of the structure were simply used as a quarry (notably for the construction during the Commonwealth of the parish church, Holy Trinity, while in the nineteenth century, the Great hall and much of what remained was demolished to make way for Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station.

Berwick-upon-Tweed television relay station

Berwick-upon-Tweed television relay station is a low-power television and FM radio relay transmitter of Chatton, covering Berwick-upon-Tweed, Tweedmouth and Spittal, Northumberland.

Cammy Myler

She practiced law in Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's Intellectual Property/Litigation Group before moving to Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, an entertainment and media law firm in New York City.

Facundo Albin

In 2012 he moved to Berwick, England in an attempt to further his career in Europe, and signed a pre-contract agreement with Berwick Bandits, although he didn't get a place in their 2013 team and was released from the contract.

Ightham Mote

He was succeeded by his nephew, also Sir William, who is notable for handing over the keys of Berwick-upon-Tweed to James I on his way south to succeed to the throne.

Jacob Acontius

In 1564 he was sent to report on the fortifications of Berwick.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

A colleague of twenty years ago, Queenie Hennessy, has cancer and is in a hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed.

William Jacks

Jacks was born at Cornhill-on-Tweed, near Coldstream, Northumberland the son Richard Jacks, a farmer and land steward, and his wife, Mary Lamb.


2011 Queensland Cup season

Prior to the Grand Final the two sides had meet each other 3 times during the 2011 season with Tweed defeating Wynnum Manly by 20 points in Round 5 and 40 points in Round 16, however Wynnum Manly did get one back with a 24-12 victory against Tweed in the Semi Finals.

It was the first time in the sixteen year history of the Queensland Cup that Wynnum Manly featured in the grand final, whilst Tweed previously featured back in 2007 where they defeated the Redcliffe Dolphins 28-18.

Alexander Allan

Sir Alexander Allan, 1st Baronet (c.1764–1820), Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1803–1806 and 1807–1820

Ayton, Scottish Borders

It is located near the East Coast Main Line railway line, which runs between London, King's Cross and Edinburgh, Waverley station, the closest station being Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Back in Line

After he was defeated at the Battle of Methven in June 1306, she was captured by the English and imprisoned in an outdoor cage at Berwick-upon-Tweed for four years.

Baron Armstrong

He unsuccessfully contested Berwick-on-Tweed as an independent candidate in the 1918 general election.

Battle of Dupplin Moor

The rebels and their English allies sailed on 31 July from several Yorkshire ports to Kinghorn in Fife to get round the terms of the Treaty of Northampton that did not permit English forces to cross the Tweed.

Brian Layton

Layton's men arrested Hilliard's servant, but Hilliard crossed the Tweed near Coldstream.

Earle

Earle, Northumberland, a settlement in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England

Edward G. Walker

Having been inspired by Blackstone's Commentaries, Walker studied law at the Georgetown, Massachusetts office of Charles A. Tweed and John Q. A. Griffin.

Elizabeth de Burgh

He imprisoned Bruce's sister Mary and Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, in wooden cages erected on the walls of Roxburgh and Berwick castles respectively, and then sent Bruce's nine-year-old daughter Marjorie to the nunnery at Watton.

George Hilsdon

The club programme described him as “living proof that to become a first-class footballer it is not necessary to be born north of the Tweed”.

George Ray Tweed

His story was also dramatized in the 1962 movie No Man Is an Island starring Jeffrey Hunter as Tweed.

Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead

Fire engines were sent by the most expeditious means from Durham, Hexham, Carlisle, Morpeth and Berwick.

Harrison Tweed

His daughter (with Eleanor Roelker) Katherine Winthrop Tweed married Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. in 1940 and was divorced in 1950.

He was the son of Charles Harrison Tweed, the general counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio and other affiliated railroad corporations, and his wife, (Helen) Minerva Evarts.

Harrison Tweed Award

1958 • The Tweed Commission Report proposed reform through centralization of court administration, simplification of court structure, and continued supervision of the courts by the Judicial Conference and the Appellate Division.

J. B. Selkirk

They lived at 'Cascade', a house overlooking the Tweed midway between Selkirk and Galashiels before moving to Thornfield, Selkirk which was built by himself in 1870.

John Callender

Sir John Callender, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1795–1802

John T. Hoffman

As it turned out, the Tweed scandals wrecked Hoffman's chances and the nomination eventually was split between those Democrats supporting liberal Republican Horace Greeley and those supporting the "pure" Democrat, New York attorney Charles O'Conor.

Leaderfoot Viaduct

The viaduct was opened on 16 November 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway, which connected Reston (on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh) with St Boswells (on the Edinburgh to Carlisle "Waverley Line"), via Duns and Greenlaw.

Mark Tronson

He continues to network with athletes, especially Australian cricketers and developed athlete respite facilities, Basil Sellers Moruya and Basil Sellers Tweed.

Melrose, Scottish Borders

The town's name is recorded in its earliest form as Mailros, 'the bare peninsula' (Old Welsh or Brythonic), referring to the original site of the monastery, recorded by the Venerable Bede, in a bend of the river Tweed.

Miami State High School

At the time, the only public high schools were Southport High School and Tweed River High, about 35 km apart, with the site of Miami High about midway between the two on the Gold Coast Highway at the very northern end of Miami.

Mitchell's rainforest snail

This critically endangered snail is now largely restricted to a range of less than 5 km² of remnant lowland rainforest, scattered around the Tweed, Byron and Ballina Shires of northern New South Wales.

No. 614 Squadron RAF

In June 1940 No. 614 squadron moved to Scotland to carry out coastal patrols, covering an area from Inverness to Berwick, 'A' flight, which was detached to Inverness for that purpose, became No. 241 Squadron RAF in the process.

Oxley River

Formed by the confluence of the Hopping Dicks Creek and Tyalgum Creek, Oxley River rises below Mount Durigan on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, near Tyalgum, and flows generally south by east, and then east, before reaching its confluence with the Tweed River near Murwillumbah.

Patrick V, Earl of March

After the Battle of Bannockburn, Patrick de Dunbar gave sanctuary and quarter to the English King Edward II at the fortress of Dunbar Castle, on the east coast of Scotland between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and managed to effect the king's escape by means of a fishing boat whereby that monarch was transported back to England.

Peel tower

In the upper Tweed valley, going downstream from its source, they were as follows: Fruid, Hawkshaw, Oliver, Polmood, Kingledoors, Mossfennan, Wrae Tower, Quarter, Stanhope, Drumelzier, Tinnies, Dreva, Stobo, Dawyck, Easter Happrew, Lyne, Barnes, Caverhill, Neidpath, Peebles, Horsburgh, Nether Horsburgh Castle, Cardrona.

Peregrine Osborne

Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds (1659–1729), English MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, Corfe Castle and York, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of Yorkshire

River Tweed

Major towns through which the Tweed flows include Innerleithen, Peebles, Galashiels, Melrose, Kelso, Coldstream and Berwick-upon-Tweed, where it flows into the North Sea.

Robert Morrison MacIver

Robert Morrison MacIver was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland on April 17, 1882 to Donald MacIver, a general merchant and tweed manufacturer, and Christina MacIver (née Morrison).

The Harris Tweed Authority

The Harris Tweed Authority is an independent Statutory Public Body created by the Harris Tweed Act of Parliament 1993 replacing the Harris Tweed Association which formed in 1910.

Thomas Frederic Tweed

In the novel Rinehard and the film Gabriel Over the White House, the character of Pendie Molloy, the President's secretary (played in the film by Karen Morley), is based on Frances Stevenson, Lloyd George's secretary and mistress, with whom Tweed also had an affair.

Tony Saint

His credits include 2009's Micro Men (about the men and development stories behind the BBC and Sinclair home computers) the 2008 The Long Walk to Finchley (on the early career of Margaret Thatcher) and the forthcoming A Free Country (a drama series based around Berwick-upon-Tweed declaring independence from both England and Scotland), both for the BBC, and one episode of The Whistleblowers in 2007 for ITV.

Tumbulgum

The Australian Red Cedar growing in the Tumbulgum area attracted timber-cutters from the 1840s and by the early 1860s a small community and river port had been established on the northern side of the Tweed River where it met the Rous.

Tweed Heads West, New South Wales

Tweed Heads West is a suburb located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire.

William Hitchman

In 1870, when the "Tweed Charter" reorganized the Metropolitan Fire Department, he became President of the Board of Fire Commissioners.

William Maitland of Lethington

The Regent called on the military assistance of Queen Elizabeth I of England, who dispatched Sir William Drury from Berwick-upon-Tweed with a formidable train of artillery to assist in reducing the castle.


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