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  2. Derby Friargate railway station - Wikipedia

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    The station was on Friar Gate, just north of the city. The station was closed to passengers in 1964 and to freight between Nottingham and Derby in 1967. The site was then taken over by British Rail for test tracking and researching. It used a single line between Friar Gate and the line near Egginton until the 1970s, when it was cut back to ...

  3. Andy Devine - Wikipedia

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    He also performed voice parts in animated films, including Friar Tuck in Walt Disney's Robin Hood. He provided the voice of Cornelius the Rooster in several TV commercials for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Devine was a pilot and owned Provo Devine, a flying school that trained flyers for the government during World War II.

  4. Closed city - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, closed cities are indicated obliquely as a nearby insignificant village, with the name of the stop serving the closed city made equivocal or misleading. For mail delivery, a closed city is usually named as the nearest large city and a special postcode, for example, Arzamas‑16, Chelyabinsk‑65.

  5. East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company - Wikipedia

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    The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was chartered in 1856. Due to financial constraints and the American Civil War, the railroad was not built by its original charterers, but a new group of investors began to acquire right-of-way in 1867 and was able to construct the railroad as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge line in 1872–1874.

  6. Friar Gate Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Friar Gate Bridge, was made by Andrew Handyside & Co is a railway bridge at the end of Friar Gate in the centre of Derby in the East Midlands of England. It was made by Andrew Handyside & Co whose foundry was close to Derby's Handyside Bridge over the River Derwent.

  7. Tim Minchin - Wikipedia

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    Timothy David Minchin was born in Northampton on 7 October 1975, the son of Australian parents Ros and David Ellison Minchin. [4] [5] [6] He holds both Australian and British citizenship, as everyone born in the UK before 1983 was automatically a citizen of the country.

  8. Friar Park - Wikipedia

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    Friar Park is a Victorian neo-Gothic mansion in Henley-on-Thames, England, construction began in 1889 and was completed in 1895. It was built for lawyer Sir Frank Crisp , and purchased in January 1970 by English rock musician and former Beatle George Harrison . [ 1 ]

  9. Robin Hood in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The King Raven Trilogy (Hood (2006), Scarlet (2007), Tuck (2009)) by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2006, relocates the Robin Hood legends to Wales. In Lynn Viehl's Darkyn book series Robin Hood is one of the Darkyn (which are vampires). He gets his own romance story in the final novel Stay the Night (January 2009).