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46 unusual facts about Norfolk


1975–76 Utah Stars season

November 21 saw the Stars on the road, losing to the lowly Virginia Squires 106-98 in front of 7,292 fans in Norfolk as Ticky Burden tallied a game-high 34 points.

2014 Old Dominion Monarchs football team

They will be led by sixth year head coach Bobby Wilder and will play their home games at Foreman Field at S. B. Ballard Stadium in Norfolk, Virginia.

A Glastonbury Romance

John Crow, a young man from Norfolk who is coming to Glastonbury in the opening scene of the novel.

Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life

Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) takes his viewers on a tour of his beloved home county of Norfolk.

Albert Hilton, Baron Hilton of Upton

He attended an elementary school in Upton only before going to work as an agricultural labourer.

Alfredo S.G. Taylor

Taylor was the designer of over thirty buildings in Norfolk, Connecticut, in a wide variety of styles, in the four decades before the Second World War.

All is Safely Gathered In

Location filming took place at a farm in Whitney Green near Thetford, Norfolk in the summer of 1972, and a large quantity of photographs survive from the shoot.

Anmer Hall

Anmer Hall is a listed country house in Anmer, Norfolk, England.

Anna Gurney

Gurney, youngest child of Richard Gurney of Keswick Hall, Norwich, Norfolk, who died 16 July 1811, by his second wife Rachel, second daughter of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex, was born on 31 December 1795, and when ten months old was attacked with a paralytic affection which deprived her for ever of the use of her legs.

Boeing KB-29 Superfortress

The KB-29P was operated by 420 Air Refueling Squadron based at RAF Sculthorpe Norfolk during the mid-1950s.

Brian Burres

He made his major league debut with the Orioles in 2006, but spent most of that season with AAA Norfolk.

Bylaugh Hall

Bylaugh Hall, also known as Bylaugh Park, is a country house situated in the village of Bylaugh in Norfolk, England.

Cephas Thompson

Although Thompson lived most of his life in Middleborough, he produced portraits throughout New England and from 1800-25 also made annual trips to the south during the winter months to paint in Alexandria, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, New Orleans, Norfolk, Virginia, Philadelphia, and the Carolinas and Georgia.

Dereham Sixth Form College

Although most students come from the two Dereham secondary schools, some students come from further afield, such as Watton (Wayland Academy), Litcham (Litcham High School), Swaffham (Hamond's High School) and Wymondham (Wymondham High School).

Ditchingham Hall

Ditchingham Hall is a country house and estate, near the village of Ditchingham in south Norfolk, England.

Drake Witham

He also took third place in the Great American Comedy Festival in 2008 in Norfolk, Nebraska.

Edward Birkbeck

Sir Edward greatly improved the farm buildings, adding, among other things, a watertower in the Italian style that remains a local landmark, cottages and one of the two lodges facing towards Buxton.

Ernest John Moeran

The family moved around for several years as his father was appointed to various parishes but they eventually settled in Bacton, on the coast of Norfolk.

Farmers Guide

The East Anglian Farmers Guide, covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, took a major step by being the first to offer the A4 magazine format on a local basis and to offer farmers free advertising for equipment sold off the farm.

Greasy pole

Blakeney in North Norfolk also has a horizontal pole over water that is erected each year for the Blakeney regatta.

Grimston Manor

Grimston Manor was a manor house in Norfolk, England.

Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield

Born Harbord Morden, Harbord was born at Thorpe, Norfolk, the son of Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet (originally William Morden), by Elizabeth Britiffe, daughter of Robert Britiffe, Recorder of Norwich.

Henry A. Wise

In 1865 he was unable to reclaim Rolleston, his plantation outside Norfolk, before he received pardon from the president.

John Moorman

Born in Leeds, the son of Frederic William Moorman (1872–1919) and his wife Frances Beatrice Humpidge (1872–1919), Moorman was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Kermet Apio

He is perhaps most famous for being the winner of The Great American Comedy Festival, based out of Norfolk, Nebraska.

Kymber

Another Cynemaer named his town in Norfolk Chineburlai, which is Kimberley today.

Langley Hall

Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, located in Loddon, Norfolk, England.

Lotus 100T

During the 1988 season, former three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart test drove the 100T at the Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk, England, which was Lotus's test track at the time.

Managing the Details of an Undertaking

Tracks 7 and 8 were recorded at the Norva Theatre in Norfolk, Virginia.

Mastocarpus stellatus

Generally common on all coasts of Ireland and Britain except perhaps for parts of the east of England - Lincoln, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Museum Piece

#The exterior of the museum was actually Oxburgh Hall, a National Trust property in Norfolk.

Opel Speedster

Produced by Lotus at their Hethel, Norfolk factory, the Speedster carried the Lotus internal model identification Lotus 116 and the code name Skipton for the 2.2N/A version and Tornado for the 2.0 L Turbo.

Orange-billed tern

:This article documents a bird seen in Norfolk, England in summer 2002 which resembled both Elegant and Lesser Crested Terns to some degree; the article is accompanied by photos of this bird and a presumed Elegant Tern seen in a Florida tern colony in 2002.

Otto Kanturek

Otto Kanturek (27 July 1897, Vienna – 26 June 1941, Cawston, Norfolk) was an Austrian cameraman, cinematographer and film director.

Pallid Harrier

It is a very rare vagrant to Great Britain and western Europe, although remarkably a juvenile wintered in Norfolk in the winter of 2002/3.

Pamala Stanley

Pamala Stanley (born July 16, 1952) is an American disco, Hi-NRG, club/dance and dance-pop singer from Norfolk, Virginia, United States.

Samson of Tottington

Samson of Tottington (b. at Tottington, near Thetford, in 1135; d. 1211) was an English Benedictine monk who became Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds.

Sandringham House

The property stood alone, surrounded by forested parkland in Flitcham, Norfolk, adjacent to Sandringham.

Sir Robert Buxton, 1st Baronet

Buxton was born at Rushford, Norfolk, the son of John Buxton and his wife Elizabeth Jacob and grandson of John Buxton who designed and built Shadwell Lodge at Rushford.

Sokolsky horse

The Sokolsky was developed in the 1900s, and has been heavily influenced by Belgian, Ardennes, Norfolk, Dole Gudbrandsdal and Anglo-Norman stock.

SS Kościuszko

During the German air raid on Denver, Norfolk, on 25 September, she was hit by two aerial bombs, but swift action by the crew prevented the ship from catching fire.

Surrey Hills, Victoria

Surrey Hills contains both the 'English Counties District', which is a small area between Canterbury and Riversdale Roads, where the streets are named after English Counties, including Norfolk, Durham, Kent, Middlesex, Essex and Suffolk Roads and the 'Chatham Precinct', which is located between Canterbury, Union, Mont Albert & Chatham Roads.

The Monster Club

A movie director scouting locations for his next film pays a horrifying visit to an isolated, decrepit village, Loughville near Hillington, Norfolk, where the sinister residents refuse to let him leave.

Thomas R. Turner II

Selected to attend the Royal College of Defense Studies in London, England, he served a one-year tour as a British Defense college Fellow and was subsequently named the Executive Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, United States Atlantic Command, and Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, in Norfolk, Virginia.

Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston

The DVD/video presents Houston performing live at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia on March 31, 1991.

Wood, South Dakota

In October 1929 the Chicago and Northwestern Railway reached town and built no further, Wood being the end of the 208 mile branch line from Norfolk, Nebraska.


24th Aero Squadron

On 31 January, the squadron was divided into four flights for training, which "A" Flight was assigned to RFC Wye, Kent; "B" Flight to RFC London Colney, Hertfordshire; "C" Flight to RFC Sedgeford, Norfolk and "D" Flight RFC Wyton, Huntingdonshire.

A Woman of No Importance

This appears to have made Tree all the more determined and thus Wilde wrote the play while staying at a farmhouse near Felbrigg in Norfolk — with Lord Alfred Douglas — while his wife and sons stayed at Babbacombe Cliff near Torquay.

Alice Dingle

Feelings between Alice and Sam ran deep and when she decided to sell her farm to relocate to Norfolk, he was in turmoil.

Barbastelle

In Britain, only a few breeding roosts are known; Paston Great Barn in Norfolk, parts of Exmoor and the Quantock Hills in Devon and Somerset (see Tarr Steps), the Mottisfont woodland in Hampshire and Ebernoe Common in West Sussex.

Berkley, Virginia

Kenneth Cooper Alexander (born October 17, 1966, in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American politician of the Democratic Party.

Bishop of Northampton

The Eastern District consisted of the counties of Cambridgeshire (with the Isle of Ely), Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Suffolk, all from the former Midland District, and the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from the London District.

Bonaventure Giffard

Henry Howard, brother to the Duke of Norfolk, was accordingly created bishop of Utica, in partibus, and nominated to the coadjutorship, cum jure successionis, on 2 October 1720, but he died before the end of the year, and in March 1720–1 the propaganda appointed Benjamin Petre coadjutor in his stead.

Carmen Anderson

Carmen Anderson is a Norfolk Islander lawn bowls player, who won Norfolk Island's first and only medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, when she won a bronze medal.

Carole Walker

She attended North Walsham Girls' High School in Norfolk, attached to the all-male Paston College, attended by Admiral Horatio Nelson, Stephen Fry and Craig Murray.

Colchicum

In the United Kingdom, the National Collection of colchicums is maintained at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk.

Commodore Levy synagogue

Commodore Levy Chapel, the U.S. Navy's oldest land-based Jewish Chapel, at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia

Economy of Norfolk, Virginia

Major private shipyards located in Norfolk include: BAE Systems Ship Repair, Colonna's Shipyard, and NASSCO.

Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of Norfolk

However in 1527 Norfolk took a mistress, Bess Holland, the daughter of his steward, with whom he lived openly at Kenninghall, and whom the Duchess described variously in her letters as a bawd, a drab, and 'a churl's daughter', 'which was but washer of my nursery eight years'.

Eric Wilson

Eric C. Wilson, one of the Norfolk Four, a group of men who are believed to be wrongfully convicted in a rape/murder in Norfolk, Virginia

Grade I listed buildings in Great Yarmouth

This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.

Harry Stileman

He retired in September 1909 and was appointed Captain-Superintendent of the Watts Naval School at Elmham, Norfolk, which was owned by Dr Barnardo's Homes.

Henry Bentinck

Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1863–1931), British MP for Norfolk North-West and Nottingham South, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland

James Norfolk

In January 1661 James Norfolk was instructed by the House to find the bodies of the regicides John Bradshaw, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride.

James Paget Hospital

The James Paget University Hospital (JPUH) is located at Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, on the A12 Lowestoft Road.

Jean de Monluc

On the same day Norfolk got news of the battle at Restalrig that commenced the siege of Leith.

Jim Kincaid

Three D-Day veterans from the Norfolk area accompanied Jim to several historic World War II sites, including Weymouth, England, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, the Dachau concentration camp, and Margraten in the Netherlands, site of the largest American cemetery in Europe.

John H. Stracey

There is a Public House in the Village of Briston, Norfolk called the John H Stracey in tribute to the boxer.

Julius Ruffin and Arthur Lee Whitfield

Whitfield was released by Virginia authorities in August 2004, when a Norfolk prosecutor said DNA evidence proved Whitfield did not commit the two rapes.

Keith Skipper

He was born at Beeston, Norfolk and currently lives in Cromer, He is a champion of the Norfolk dialect, and was a founder of F.O.N.D. (Friends of Norfolk Dialect).

Lothingland Rural District

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and split between the new districts of borough of Great Yarmouth (in Norfolk) and the district of Waveney, in Suffolk.

Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is an English electronic music producer from Norwich, Norfolk, with releases on Output Recordings, Trash Aesthetics and James Holden's Border Community label.

Miles Stapleton

Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knight of the Garter, of Felbrigg, Norfolk by Margaret, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen Anne of Bohemia.

Mimi Hwang

Later on, she became a founder of Cello Divas and Quartos with which she appeared in such places as Banff, Norfolk, Roycroft, and Skaneateles as well as Aspen Music Festival.

Norfolk Biffin

The estate records for Mannington, Norfolk, dating from 1698, of Robert Walpole (later the first Prime Minister of Great Britain) mention Norfolk Biffin apples which Walpole had sent up to his house in London.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Captain William Kiestler, commanding officer of Norfolk Naval Shipyard was relieved of duty on July 1, 2010 by order of Vice Admiral Kevin M. McCoy, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, after a year on the job because of a loss of confidence in his ability to command.

Norfolk Yeomanry

The regiment was raised in 1901 at the express wish of the new King Edward VII, and titled the Norfolk (King′s Own) Imperial Yeomanry with the Royal cypher as their badge.

Norwich CEYMS F.C.

Norwich CEYMS F.C. (CEYMS being an acroynm for Church of England Young Men's Society) is an English football club based in Swardeston, near Norwich, in Norfolk.

Overy

Burnham Overy, a civil parish on the north coast of Norfolk, England

Owen Honors

John C. Harvey Jr., the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon that Captain Honors was removed for demonstrating poor judgment.

Papilio amynthor

The Norfolk Swallowtail (Papilio amynthor) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family, that is found in New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Norfolk Island.

Paula Miller

She was a Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates 2005–2012, representing the 87th district in the city of Norfolk.

Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa

A Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa is a type of Australian immigration visa granted on arrival in Australia to a non-citizen who is a permanent resident of Norfolk Island.

Richard Mabey

He now lives in the Waveney Valley in Norfolk, with his partner Polly Lavendar, and retreats to a boat on the Norfolk Broads.

River Burn

The River Burn, Norfolk, which flows into the North Sea at Burnham Overy Staithe in the county of Norfolk, England

Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth

The Royal Hotel is a grade II listed building which is in the English seaside resort town of Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom.

Sheringham Lifeboat Station

Sheringham Lifeboat Station is an RNLI operated lifeboat station located in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk.

Sylvanus Thayer

During the War of 1812, Thayer directed the fortification and defense of Norfolk, Virginia, and was promoted to major.

Thunder and Lightnings

Set in Norfolk, it features a developing friendship between two boys who share an interest in aeroplanes, living near RAF Coltishall during the months in 1974 when the Royal Air Force is phasing out its Lightning fighters and introducing the Jaguar.

U.S. Route 60

A few miles south of the bridge-tunnel, in Norfolk, US 60 diverges to the east to follow the south shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay through Ocean View and past the south entrance to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to reach Cape Henry.

WHRO

WHRO-TV, a PBS member broadcasting on channel 15 analog/16 digital on terrestrial television services, with offices in Norfolk, VA

William Balmain

(Thomas Jamison, a former colleague of Balmain's on the First Fleet and on Norfolk Island, replaced him as Principal Surgeon of New South Wales.)

Witton

Postwick with Witton, in the county of Norfolk and 5 miles (8 km) east of Norwich, in Broadland district

World Horse Welfare

Horses needing attention are taken into one of charities four Recovery and Rehabilitation Centres, based in Norfolk, Somerset, Lancashire and Aberdeenshire.