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Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was born on 21 September 1972 at Saint Mary’s Hospital on Hathersage Road in Manchester. Born William John Paul Gallagher to Irish parents, Peggy and Thomas Gallagher, he is the youngest of their three sons. St Mary’s Hospital was demolished in 2010 to make way for new buildings, including a new Ronald McDonald House providing Read more...
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BBC television presenter and journalist Jill Dando was shot and killed, aged 37, on the doorstep of her home on Gowan Avenue in Fulham, southwest London, on 26 April 1999. As she returned home and approached her front door at about 11:32 am, Dando was pushed to the ground by an assailant who pressed a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol against Read more...
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The red-brick clock tower in the centre of the city of Bangor, Gwynedd, was built between 1886 and 1887, by builder T J Humphreys of Bangor. The Victorian listed structure on Bangor’s High Street has four clock faces and a chiming bell, and was given to the city by Bangor businessman Thomas Lewis, who was Mayor of Bangor between 1885 Read more...
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Durham Cathedral in its present form dates back to the Norman era with its construction started in 1093 under Bishop William of St Calais, and being substantially completed over the next 40 years. Founded as a monastic cathedral, it was built to house the shrine of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, replacing the White Church, the city’s previous Anglo-Saxon church constructed Read more...
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The stone towers and arches of Menai Suspension Bridge are built of grey-brown veined limestone quarried nearby in Penmon on the eastern tip of the Isle of Anglesey. Construction started with the bridge towers in 1819, with the stone, also known as Penmon marble, transported to the site by boat down the Menai Strait. The Thomas Telford-designed bridge connects Anglesey Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Leeds is called a Loiner or a Leodensian. Both words are used as demonyms for someone from Leeds, West Yorkshire. Read more...
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Menai Suspension Bridge has narrow arches with a width restriction of 2.6 metres and a height limit of 4.7 metres. HGVs, large lorries, and buses normally use Britannia Bridge, the other bridge crossing the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the Welsh mainland, which is subject to less restrictive width and height limits. During periods of high winds, Read more...
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The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire, opened in 1779 as a cloth hall, where pieces of woollen fabric woven on handlooms would be traded by the area’s clothiers. The 19th-century industrial revolution brought automation and scale to the area’s weaving industry, and the fall in the number of small-scale producers precipitated a decline in the Piece Hall’s fortunes to Read more...
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Southampton Airport Parkway Station is located adjacent to Southampton Airport and is a short walk from the terminal building via a mostly covered walkway. The station is on the South Western Main Line between Winchester and Southampton Central stations. Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Stockport is called a Stopfordian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Stockport, Greater Manchester. Read more...
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The statue of English footballer Duncan Edwards is located on Market Place in the centre of his home town of Dudley, West Midlands. The Manchester United and England national team player, was one of the Busby Babes, a group of young, talented footballers playing for Manchester United in the 1950s under manager Matt Busby. Edwards was one of eight Manchester Read more...
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The cause of the helicopter crash that killed 39-year-old Scottish rally driver Colin McRae on the afternoon of 15th September 2007 was not positively determined. McRae was piloting his Eurocopter AS350B2 Squirrel helicopter, registered G-CBHL, when it crashed at high speed in a wooded valley next to his home, Jerviswood House, north of Lanark, some 150 metres from the intended Read more...
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On 4th June 1967, a British Midland Airways airplane, carrying 84 people, crashed into a green space and buildings near the junction of Hopes Carr and Waterloo Road in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The Canadair C-4 Argonaut plane, registered G-ALHG, left Palma de Mallorca airport at 5 am, bound for Manchester Airport. While attempting a second approach into Manchester, the aircraft Read more...
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Vehicles cannot drive up Maidstone High Street, as it is a pedestrian zone, with the following exceptions: Bicycles and taxis are permitted to enter from Pudding Lane and King Street. Buses can enter from Fairmeadow, King Street, Pudding Lane and Mill Street. Disabled blue badge holders can enter only from Pudding Lane, and parking is permitted in the marked parking Read more...
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Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis died at his home on Barton Street in Macclesfield, Cheshire on 18th May 1980, aged 23 years old. Curtis committed suicide in the early hours of the morning by hanging himself using a washing line in the kitchen of the house. Joy Division had been due to leave the UK that day for the Read more...
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Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford lived with his mother and siblings in the Manchester suburbs of Withington and Fallowfield before the family moved to a home on Button Lane on the Northern Moor estate in Wythenshawe when he was 9 years old. He attended Button Lane Primary School and later, Ashton on Mersey School, a specialist sports college in Sale Read more...
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Access to Manchester United’s Aon Training Complex at Carrington, Manchester, is restricted to players, staff and authorised visitors only. Training sessions cannot be viewed by the general public. Birch Road leading to the complex is a private road, but fans wanting to catch a glimpse of Manchester United’s players arriving in their cars for training, stand at the entrance or Read more...
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The two white towers on Uppingham Road in Corby, Northamptonshire are the Beanfield Water Towers which are used as potable water storage tanks by Anglian Water. The smaller tower, Beanfield No 1, was constructed in the 1960s and holds 1.14 million litres of water. The bigger tower, Beanfield No 2, was added in the 1970s and has a capacity of Read more...
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Dogs are permitted on all beaches in Brighton between 1st October and 30th April. They must be under control at all times and any fouling must be picked up immediately. At all other times, restrictions are in place and dogs can only go on Brighton’s designated dog-friendly beaches which are usually indicated with signs. Dogs must be on a lead Read more...
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The Angel of the North sculpture is situated on a hill overlooking the A1 road at Low Eighton, near Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The 20 metre (or 66 feet) tall steel sculpture of an angel, designed by Anthony Gormley, was completed in 1998. Read more...